More collimation video
Still trying to understand the collimation status of the Vixen VC200L telescope. This is a 30 second video of being outside of the focus point Air currents can be seen…
Got collimation?
Over the last few months we do not seem to be getting the performance out of our 20cm Vixen telescope. Everything has been cleaned, the 90 degree diagonal has been…
Local seeing is not good
Tuesday evening around 20:00 local I opened up the observatory with the intent to do an optical collimation and some imaging of Saturn and Jupiter. It was hazy, The near…
Jupiter 20220930
This is the first image of Jupiter since the 2022 opposition (4 days past opposition). Altitude was at max , seeing and transparency were average, but the focus still was…
Fireball 20220924 00:36:05 UTC
Greetings! Another great fireball event captured by the UWO Yarker 10 (SCGO allsky2) camera system Friday evening at 20:36:05 EDT. At least 5 people saw this visually, directly at the…
Autostakkert, CPU and RAM part 1
Greetings! This is Autostakkert! v3.1.4 – 64 bit I have gone through three computers in the last two years, that I use for astronomical image processing. Each one was a…
Jupiter 2022 Sept 02 evening
And again a first in ages… a second imaging run in the same day, the first early on Friday morning, this second run late on Friday evening. Jupiter is still…
Saturn 20220902 Evening
And this is from the same day as last but in the evening observing session… first time in ages that there was a morning and an evening session! Too bad…
Jupiter 2022Sept02 morning
From the morning of Friday 2022 Sept 02 after doing some runs of imaging Saturn. As it turns out, this 4 or 5th imaging session, the exposure started to drop…
Saturn 20220902
Saturn on the morning of Friday 2022Sept02. North is up, altitude only 28 degrees above the horizon. I count seven distinct cloud bands north of the rings. I found a…
Jupiter 2022August28
This is the massive planet Jupiter in the early morning hours of Sunday 2022August28. There are 39 usable runs of 180seconds each with a 120second delay between each, resulting in…
Saturn 2022Aug28
This is the Ring Planet Saturn in the early morning hours of Sunday 2022 August 28th.. just past midnight actually local Eastern Daylight Time. This is near peak altitude, which…
Jupiter 2022Aug20
This is from late in the morning on Saturday 2022 August 20th. The scheduled 01:00 EDT imaging session was clouded out. But it did clear up enough around 05:00 to…
Saturn 2022 aug 12-13-14
This is from Friday morning of Saturn nearing opposition. Close enough to not even matter! This is the best image of approx 34 runs that morning. It was at 07:33…
2022Aug13 Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
Last night was not too shabby! 78 events were recorded on the UWO Yarker #10 camera, aka Allsky2 here at SCGO: This is a wonderful double event… two separate meteors…