Saturn 20260829
Even getting up 30 minutes earlier, at 03:30 EDT, does not mean Saturn is still in the east. It has moved to the west, an azimuth of over 180 degrees!…
Saturn 20260822
Another early morning imaging session at 04:00. Transparency was average 5/10 and seeing was poor 2/10. Seeing may have been a little bit better at the start of the session…
Saturn 20260821
Saturn from this morning. 34th imaging session of 2026. Best 15% 12K frames, seeing average 5/10, transparency average 5/10 before this run the finderscope mount was repaired as was the…
Saturn 20260820
The 33rd imaging run of the year from the Serenity II observatory here at SCGO. seeing was poor 2/10, transparency average 5/10 best 10% of 11K frames at 15ms each…
Perseids 2026
The 2026 Perseid Meteor shower was pretty typical. Nothing too spectacular and only 1 or 2 nights of relatively good rates. Each image filename contains the date and the number…
Saturns Moons 20260805
Greetings! A game changer in wavelet processing has happened. I’ve been meaning to dive into wavesharp for some months now, trying to replace registax as my wavelet processing step. I…
Saturn 20260811
Up and out before 04:00 edt this morning. Realigned the finder scope to the main optics. Tried using polaris and moving the scope in N/S Dec moved the star, moving…
Saturn 20260629
A pre 04:00edt imaging session of Saturn this morning. The best image turned out to be the last before it got too bright at 08:49 UTC (04:49EDT). This is the…
Saturn 20260707
An early imaging session of Saturn this morning. The best image turned out to be one of the first before it got too bright at 08:09 UTC (04:09EDT). This is…
Wilfred Buck
From an article I wrote back in 2024: –cut here– We drove out to the Summer Saskatchewan Star Party in 2006. We arrived on site and had one of the…
Jupiter 20260411
Saturday evening was my 12th imaging session of the year… and cold enough that my sinuses were not happy this morning! Last night was a special event.. the moon Callisto…
Jupiter 20260407
A nice clear sky greeted us Tuesday evening after a dumping of white cold feathers the previous 24 hours. Seeing was a little better than average (6/10) but then went…
Jupiter 20260404
Last night was a good example of the downside of rolloff observatories. Yes it was clear but it was also very windy and gusty and the Telescope was vibrating like…
Jupiter 20250304
If you can believe it, this is the first Jupiter imaging session since January 9th.. Better yet, Jupiter was near its highest altitude, so less air to look through, than…
Total Lunar Eclipse 20260303
Up at 04:30 EST this morning , bundling up in the -18.2C temperature, to image as much of the total lunar eclipse that we could. We used a Canon DSLR…