The google pixel 6 smartphone and nightsight
Wow! For wide field astrophotography I do not believe I have seen anything better! Attached is a 4 min exposure by nightsight, which stacks the moving bits only. Here you…
Radiojove back in operation
Our Radiojove telescope system went offline on 2023 March 21st. We found the issue… a chewed through in two places audio cable running from the RJ receiver to the USB…
Aurora! 2023March23
Aurora! Big storm! Lots of cloud. This is from the google pixel 6a smartphone on a tripod… nightsight 4 minute exposure, 7MB. We will add some still images later today.…
The SCGO Science Library – update
This is actually our first shelf A second pass of the master index vs what is on the shelves was completed. Duplicates have been removed and we are sitting around…
The SCGO Science Library
(not our library shelves) After twenty years of knowing it needed to be done, and about 3 months of doing, and about 2 days of intensive time dedicated to it,…
Comet C/2022 E3 (ztf)
I think I am behind the lot of you, in that last night was my first look at Comet C/2022 E3 (ztf). Kim was also out using the 20cm dobsonian…
Jupiter 2023Feb13
Jupiter was low (airmass was 2.55 !!!), seeing was average, transparency was poor. This was the best 10% of 15K frames at 5ms per frame. First time out in a…
winter is coming? winter is here!
And every year we have told ourselves we will complete the Library Project. For ten or more years now! But this winter, we have started. We have even completed some…
Jupiter 20230107
The first imaging session of the 2023 season! It’s actually been almost 4 weeks since the last one of 2022… cloud cloud cloud. So, this is Jupiter, the best of…
2023 arrives with cloud
Welcome to 2023, the year that is one older than the last. 2022 ended with a 2 or 3 day blizzard (we lost track inside the house). and now, in…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2022
One of the best performances of a meteor show in years! Mostly because there were no clouds! For the night of Monday/Tuesday 2022 December 12/13, 39 events were recorded on…
Mars 2022 Dec 09
It looks like both of us imaged Mars at very near the same time. I did x36 four minute imaging runs from 21:37 to 00:02 EST. exposure was 0.2ms !…
Jupiter 2022 Dec 09
The best of Jupiter on Friday evening, just after it went past due south az=180 degrees. The best 5% of the run with 30K frames… I think I will reprocess…
RadioJove functions!
After many weeks of issues with the RadioJove v1 system, we finally got it operational again a few days ago. Some of the recording levels seemed a little low but…