Category: astronomy

After building a new hartman mask, a new dew shield, a new tripod prop, I did a two star alignment on Arcturus and Altair then went to Jupiter as it…

1st quarter moon was maybe 35 degrees away from Jupiter, the southern half of the sky was lit up by the moon with high haze. Pointing the mount, big failure…

Another night of imaging with the Meade 102mm SC on the Meade LXD55 equatorial mount in the Serenity Observatory. Started with realigning by hand the OTA on the dovetail, as…

Headlamps are a wonderful invention. From harvesting veg after sunset to working in the dark with astronomy. One requires white light and the other requires red light. White light makes…

Friday evening was the first nice clear skies in over a week. So we were out observing and imaging. by 9pm the temp had dropped to 6.6C, below the predicted…

Saturn is another favourite target and this again was the first imaging run in weeks, possibly since opposition. With very heavy processing the Cassini division just comes out, but there…

It has actually been just 2 or 3 weeks since my last imaging night with Jupiter. This is in the early evening, maybe an hour after sunset and before Jupiter…

Greetings! After almost a month of being too busy in the gardens/cloudy nights, here is the best image from last night (Sunday 2020 Sept 06) in the evening. Most of…

Greetings! Saturday night was imaging Jupiter with: a) cleaned optics (camera window, barlow) b) removed 90 deg adapter (gaining 10-20% in exposure times due to one less 80-90% reflective surface)…

>> Jupiter satellite events from project pluto >> I = IO > II = EUROPA > III = GANYMEDE > UTC-4 hours=EDT > > II : Tra start: 14 Aug…

Another night of developing imaging workflow for the Meade 102mm SC. Tonight was with a x2 barlow, taking it from FL=1000mm to 2000mm. This small Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope has only a…

Imaging Jupiter last night during the Perseids, waiting for midnight to come for hopefully better and more meteor displays. These are before and after Registax v6 wavelet processing, to show…

This is the only Perseid meteor captured on the DSLR camera, a 20 sec exposures of the southern sky last night, just after setting up no less! This one is…

And from this morning, Tuesday 2020 July 21st, just after midnight. Very low to the horizon and soon to disappear behind the trees. Catch it if you can after sunset…

My first good (in focus!) image of the first naked eye comet in decades! Taken Wednesday July 15th from outside Yarker, Ontario The image specs are in the filename. Nice!…