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…
Perseids, Saturn, Jupiter and Sagittarius
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…
Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise
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…
Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise
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!…
Jupiter at opposition 2020 July
Greetings! I have been looking forward to the opposition of Jupiter for *ages*. Unfortunately I do not yet have my dream setup and am cobbling together anything that will capture…
More air needed
A few things happened over the last few days of *NOTWORK*. Gotta love those things called “holidays”!!! The SCGO Observatory was getting a little hot in the days of the…
More wheelz!
Some time ago I had asked if anyone had done an elementary physics experiment in friction. Does adding more wheels to a rolloffroof observatory reduce the static (starting) friction and…
astronomy! At Last!
This is an image of the imaging laptop screen while I was imaging Jupiter on Sunday morning at 03:32 EDT. Yes.. before sunrise! I am using an ASI ZWO 290MC…
Spacex Crew Dragon and ISS
On Launch day, Saturday 2020 May 30th, we observed a late evening pass of the International Space Station (ISS) and the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. We used Heavens Above which…
2017 august 21 eclipse
Just thinking back to the 2017 August 21st eclipse in Wyoming and could not find the air temperature data we took… so here it is, maybe again:
two great startrails
The allsky1pi camera system project is awesome. The last two nights have been relatively clear and the images it is generating are very nice! These startrails are from the last…
two nice meteors
Two nice meteors in the last two days: North up, south down, west right, east left. Saturday 2020 April 11, 04:13:07 UT = Saturday 2020 April 11, 00:13:07 EDT This…
Allsky1pi update
We are superduper happy with the allsky1pi camera project. It has better resolution and colour images over the older allsky1 system (2006-2018) running a very old SBIG ST237A camera system.…
Allskypi Camera System Project
The allskypi camera system is pretty much operational, subject to a few additional tweaks in the upcoming days. This is the first report giving background details: allskypiCameraproject20200308v2 Many thanks to…