A new alt-az mount for allsky1
This is the housing and the mount for Allsky1, a raspberry pi and ZWO ASI camera based system. It has not been truly allsky since the last wideangle lens broke…
SCGO Garlic Harvest Data 2024
Well.. these are the final stats. After 4 weeks of hanging to dry in the ventilated garage, the tops and bottoms were cut off, weighed and measured and then stored…
Jupiter 20240920
And another run of Jupiter from this morning from about 04:30-05:30 nice.. no mosquitos! Lots of dew though but the dew heater strap around the corrector and the foam dew…
Jupiter 20240916
And for the 2nd 4am getupandoutside call in a row… Jupiter with great altitude at 57 degrees and an airmass of only 1.2 This is the best 5% of 15k…
Jupiter 20240915
Another nice clear morning to get up and out around 04:00.. but did not actually start imaging until 04:40 or so. BUT… the sun is coming up so much later…
Jupiter 20240910
Another early morning imaging session before work. This time a rebuilt styrofoam dew cap went over the heat strap on the front correct plate of the C9.25 SC. It worked!…
Solar film filter storage
Greetings! We have a 9.25″ full aperture baader solar film filter, in a neat aircore mount that just force fits inside the rim of the Celestron C9.25 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope.…
Saturn 20240906
A reminder that Saturn opposition 2024 is tonight/tomorrow and this is a good chance to get your best planetary observing/imaging of the season. At approx 01:00 EDT Sunday, Saturn will…
Jupiter, Io, Io shadow transit 20240906
Again serendipity strikes… outside at 04:00 EDT to imaging Jupiter and continue to commission the Celestron 9.25 with a x1.5 barlow and low! Io is very close to Jupiter and…