\nin the west, right along the line of the big dipper handle arcing to
\nArcturus but heading straight down into the west.
\nThe cool thing is that the allsky camera got it too.
\nThis was a 120 second exposure but the camera seemed to be cycling
\nbetting exposures and only caught the last part of the burn, as we
\nsaw it starting an equivalent amount above the
\nline\/arc\/Arcturus\/Dipper.
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<\/a><\/p>\nAnother highlight was observing Neptune in 10×50 binocs and 17×80
\nbinocs. It’s position in the star field made its mag 7.8 easy to
\npick out by star hopping inside the single field of view of both
\nsets. Lots of easy guide stars.<\/p>\n
That and a lot of images taken with our canon camera with 64 sec exposures: We’ve been away for a while and did not get a chance to observe at all during that time. Back home and this past Monday night August 24th was clear and cool and with few mosquitos. So we went out! Both Kim & I visusally observed a -6 to -8 fireball around 21:15 EDT in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a>
\nSagittarius and the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy looking south over the Observatory.
\n<\/a>
\nJupiter in the SouthEast over Kingston.
\n<\/a>
\nCassiopeia, Perseus and the Andromeda Galaxy in the Northwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"