Category: astronomy

Profile=Jupiter Diameter=39.25″ Magnitude=-2.35 Altitude=29.35° Airmass=2.04 CMI=19.4° CMII=182.6° CMIII=31.3° (during mid of capture) This is the last image of the night’s run… still needs collimating.. and the colour issue still needs…

Telescope optics tend to be a finicky and complex issue at times. Mirrors tend to be finished down to fractions of a wavelength of light across the mirror surface to…

After doing the barlow test, I moved ahead to try Jupiter out again… with the max x3 barlow (which turned out to have dust spots, so it too is now…

I did a short experiment last night with barlows and focussing distances. The results baffle me so I am going to have to try it again. As a general rule…

The first lunar eclipse in some time, partial or total. Of course the clouds came for the event! Up at 02:00 Local, 03:00 local, 04:00 local.. cloud Finally around 04:30…

Congratulations! (10062) Kimhay = 1988 RV4 = 1997 UY24 Discovered at La Silla on 1988-09-01 by H. Debehogne. (10062) Kimhay Kimberley Dawn Hay (b. 1959) is an enthusiastic observer, sunspot…

The allskypi camera upgrade from 0.6 to 0.8 took about 10 minutes and the new software is *amazeballs* A new web GUI interface for settings which has more info about…

It’s been over 10 years actually (2011 April) since we assembled out RadioJove radio receiver, built the dual dipole antenna, and have been recording both Jupiter and Solar radio events.…

This was the last images of the Jupiter imaging test from Friday night, after 2000 EDT and into the next day UTC. So.. the details… The ZWO ASI290MC camera has…

Pretty poor out last night for planetary… almost full moon, very close to Jupiter. Seeing poor, transparency poor. This image was the best, the last of the evening. 180 second…

I too spent a few hours last evening/night. Mark had kindly repaired the JMI remote motofocus USB interface and it worked great! Having numbers to record for focusing with no…

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…

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…

“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.…

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…