Thoughts from Starlight Cascade

The last 5 nights of a nightly summary image from the UWO Allsky2 Camera System: This low light video supercircuits video generates a 640×480 monochrome image and was installed in…

For only the second time in my decades of planetary imaging, Saturn’s Moon Titan transitted across the face of Saturn. This particular event as very low on the bottom of…

This is the first imaging session for Jupiter since it went around the far side of the Sun and has appeared in the morning sky. Its altitude is only 28…

This is the best 10% of 10K frames at 18ms each in a 180 second run. Altitude was about 40 degrees and Saturn’s size is about 18 arcseconds.

This is Saturn, early in the morning on Thursday 2024 July 18. It is nearing transitting due south, its highest point in the sky, but for now remains very low.…

This is the MS Movie Maker edit of two runs during totality of the Total Solar Eclipse. The first 30 seconds were exposed for the corona and the remainder for…

Serendipidy got us up and outside at 04:00 this morning and only then realized that it was one of the rare Titan transits the planet Saturn dates! The transit ran…

After months or procrastinating, some time made it available to process some of the imagery collected during the total solar eclipse of 2024 april 08. The first three files here…

This is the best of 5 runs of Saturn taken on Monday morning July08… Up and outside at 04:00 EDT was an experience! This was the best 10% of 9300…

Switching from observing and imaging in the evening to the morning now, since that is where all the planets be. This is a session Friday morning starting at 04:00 EDT…

With the installation of a custom metal adapter, the moonlight focuser is now mounted to the Vixen VC200L cassegrain scope. The old focuser was disconnected from power and remains in…