Partial Annular Solar Eclipse 20231014
This image was taken just after maximum eclipse. Serendipitously an aircraft flew right over it. We missed the actual aircraft part but we did catch the contrails left by its…
Jupiter 20230922
The best of this mornings imaging run of Jupiter. The best 5% which also shows Europa in the upper left and the great red spot as well. The latest animated…
Jupiter 2nd night 20230828
From later in the morning on Monday. Jupiter was almost overhead… 60 degrees of altitude! very little if any atmospheric dispersion in colouring but still not absolutely clear or steady.…
Jupiter? 20230827
This is Jupiter believe it or not. This is in the middle of a run of approx 10 runs that were batch processed in Autostakkert! v3 and is the only…
Jupiter 20230827
Jupiter later the same morning as the previous Saturn post. Still not really great… I am still trying to recreate the 2016 ultracrisp seeing images that I took. This shows…
Saturn 20230827 – opposition!
One of the first times that I can remember that I have been able to image a planet at opposition. In theory this would be the closest and best time…
Jupiter 20230724
Attached is the best image of Jupiter from Monday morning’s imaging session. Details are annotated onto the bottom of the image but just in case: Processed with firecapture, autostakkert! registax!…
Saturn 20230724
It has been a month or more? since the last clear morning skies that also worked with my schedule. Monday morning was nice! Details are annotated onto the bottom of…
Allsky1 rebuild
The SCGO Allsky1pi Camera system was rebuilt on June 12th, 2023. The testing of using a raspberry pi Cam F was a failure, so we went back to using the…
Luna 2023May23
The moon last evening, 4 days old, 18% illuminated. This was the 13th imaging session of the year for me and after a kit if basic mechanics/processes, I managed to…
Saturn 2023May17
Outside this morning for my first Saturn Season imaging run.. with the new ZWO ASI585MC camera Saturn was only 19 degrees off the horizon, seeing and transparency was poor, and…
A week of cloud
It’s been a week of cloud since the observatory was moved in place. A little more than that since the replacement observatory computer came along… And not one bit of…
Commissioning a new observatory computer
The existing laptop has been used as a telescope mount control and image capture for a few years. It has had its issues… USB2 only (not USB3 which most astro…
How to move an observatory
The Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories Serenity II observatory needed to move. It has been in its current location for approximately two years. In that time some of the thoughts…
Aurora KP8 2023April24
The static image from Google Pixel 6 Nightsight feature… a 4 minute exposure stacked and aligned. below is the video that created this static image. Of course it was cloudy……