Mars 2020 Oct 10 and 11
There were great plans afoot to image the planets this long weekend: Friday Saturday and Sunday evenings. Friday evening, the observatory was opened, the scope cooled down, and were just…
How much does the roof weigh?
The original metal roof of the SCGO observatory has blown off twice in very high winds, once by the remnants of a hurricane and the other by a blizzard. It…
Mars 2020sept25
Finally! After two years since the last opposition of Mars, I had a great night of imaging it. I had previously done a few back in June but Mars was…
Jupiter 2020sept18
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…
Jupiter 2020 Sept 23
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…
Jupiter 2020sept20
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…
SCGO Headlamp Review
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…
Jupiter 2020sept11
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 20200906
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…
Jupiter 20200906
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…
Jupiter 20200907
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…
Jupiter 2020 August 16 UTC
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 2020 Aug 14 UTC
>> Jupiter satellite events from project pluto >> I = IO > II = EUROPA > III = GANYMEDE > UTC-4 hours=EDT > > II : Tra start: 14 Aug…
Jupiter Saturn 2020 Aug 13 UTC
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…
Jupiter 2020Aug12 02:48-03:14UTC
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…