SCGO Serenity Observatory Renovation 2021
This is the original Serenity Observatory at SCGO circa 2020 January. It is located out in the back lowlands which often are quite wet. We have been adding an earth…
Saturn 2021 July 30
This is one of a few imaging runs of Saturn taken Friday evening. The new mount is still not polar aligned, so there was more drift than I was happy…
Jupiter 2021July24
“It’s been a long time.. gettin from there to here” – Star Trek Enterprise More specifically related to astronomy… my first substantial mount and telescope are here installed and working.…
Allsky1pi camera system update
The Allsky1pi camera system is slowing coming back to normal. It stopped working a few weeks back, from a suspected overheating of the camera and the raspberry pi. The housing…
Jupiter 2021July05
This is the best image from this mornings run of Jupiter, from 03:58-4:40 EDT. Meade LXD55 Mount, Meade 102mmSC fl=1000 plus a x2 barlow and the ZWO ASI 290MC camera…
ISS transit of the Moon 2021May20
This is my *single* frame capture of the ISS transit of the moon on Thursday 2021 May 20th at 23:58:08 UTC. The ISS is the little lighter blotch in the…
drip irrigation is pretty awesome
This is our drip irrigation system that we bought last year (kit form), just laid out a week ago when we transplanted the heirloom tomatos. This year the plants are…
spring gardens
A quick snap of Vegbed5 for historical records… Approx 960 garlic cloves were planted on 2020 October 25 & 28 in the eastern section (left side of image). Potatos went…
Lunar Werner X 2021may18
We went out last evening around 21:00 edt and attempted to get some images of the Werner lunar X. This is from a Canon T7i on a tripod with a…
Darkside of the Moon
One of the better dark side of the moon images taken 3days old, positioned low to our horizon between some power lines. This was a 2 second exposure on a…
Nova Cas 2021 (V1405Cas)
Our first confirmed image of Nova Cass 2021 (V1405Cas) taken with a DSLR on a tripod for 30 seconds of unguided exposure at ISO3200 and a 75-300mm zoom lens at…
First Light – allsky1pi new lens
This is the First Light image from the new wider angle lens for the allsky1pi camera system. The old lens came along with the ASI ZWO120MC camera and was a…
Solar M3.9 Flare 2021May07 19:10 UTC
The data closeup from the SCGO Radiojove radio telescope system for the M3.9 class flare from active region 2822 just coming onto the sun on 2021 May 07. The spaceweatherlive…
Solar Flare C8.6 20210422-2006UTC
Its Solar Flare Season again! This note came from the Radiojove email list from John Avellone, Shenandoah Valley Virginia/West Virginia): “More solar activity @ 20MHz. Attached chart for 200330 –…
SCGO renos and repairs part 2
Most rolloff roof observatory designs have a “flippy board” feature that flips up before rolling the roof off. This allows for clearance of any instruments you may have inside, and…