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…
Allskypi camera sensor temp review
Allskypi is an allsky camera system with a ZWO ASI 120MC camera and wide angle lens protruding out into a 4″ transparent dome, with the remainder of the camera and…
Allsky1pi operational
The new allsky1 version3 camera system. The camera is a ZWO ASI 120MC (not cooled) with a 2.1mm lens giving approx a 150 degree field of view. The housing was…
Allsky1pi aka allskypi
This is part of the new allsky1pi camera system, specifically the ZWO ASI 120mc camera with its included wideangle lens, and a reaspberry pi model 3b. The camera is mounted…
opposition 2020
This image shows Mars at 7.2 arcseconds in diameter and a declination of +0deg 52 min and an altitude of 22 deg, and using 3ms exposures. Following up on the…
advice from down under
We were wondering through youtube this morning and came across some nice videos of an Australian astronomer Dylan O’Donnell. This one was particularly nice: We use some of the software…