Saturn 20241102 now with gimp!
Saturn is now an evening object, and since I have been using my time for the morning imaging of Jupiter, Saturn has been awhile. Wow.. a cold cold night! was…
Jupiter 20241101
This is the 54th imaging session of 2024 in the Serenity Observatory at SCGO. This mornings three imaging runs of Jupiter occurred in nice warm 15C weather but with a…
Jupiter 20241031
After a very long time, and a bad incident with a cable jamming the scope, we are operational again! 1) a newly repaired heater in the telrad finder was installed…
Mars 20241027
Mars is now high enough to be out of the goop and is starting to show some nice detail. This is the best 5% of 15K frames exposed at 1ms…
Jupiter 20241027
First time out in 23 days… just installed the finderscope and camera as well. Works.. just not quite aligned and with no fine alignment ability we are back to shimming…
Comet C/2023 A3 Atlas again 20241014
One of the last images from last night, this one showing another aircraft passing near the comet head. This exposure was 15 seconds, showing more pronounced star trails as well…
Comet C/2023 A3 – atlas 20241014
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a long-period comet, with an 80,000-year orbit around the sun. We were south of Newburgh Monday night, had the first camera image at 19:12 EDT…
Auroral storm 20241010
From the overnight of Thursday/Friday 2024 October 10/11 about 40km northwest of Kingston Ontario. This is from the formerly known as allsky1 camera system, now aimed to the north and…
Aurora 20241006
The SCGO Allsky1 camera has not been allsky for a couple of years now (wide angle lens failure) so it has been repurposed/reaimed at the north to record aurora instead.…
Jupiter 20241003
This imaging session was #2024-50.. the 50th of the year. In 2023 I had a goal of reaching 50 imaging sessions and I reached it. This year I had a…
A new alt-az mount for allsky1
This is the housing and the mount for Allsky1, a raspberry pi and ZWO ASI camera based system. It has not been truly allsky since the last wideangle lens broke…
Jupiter 20240920
And another run of Jupiter from this morning from about 04:30-05:30 nice.. no mosquitos! Lots of dew though but the dew heater strap around the corrector and the foam dew…
Jupiter 20240916
And for the 2nd 4am getupandoutside call in a row… Jupiter with great altitude at 57 degrees and an airmass of only 1.2 This is the best 5% of 15k…
Jupiter 20240915
Another nice clear morning to get up and out around 04:00.. but did not actually start imaging until 04:40 or so. BUT… the sun is coming up so much later…
Jupiter 20240910
Another early morning imaging session before work. This time a rebuilt styrofoam dew cap went over the heat strap on the front correct plate of the C9.25 SC. It worked!…