La Pine Observatory: Preliminary Results from imaging Comet 46P/Wirtanen

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Preliminary Results from imaging Comet 46P/Wirtanen

To catch a comet! 

It cleared up Monday night (Dec. 11, 2018) long enough for me to get a few images of Comet 46P/Wirtanen !

I am still processing them but here is a sneak peak:

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About La Pine Observatory

It has always been a dream of mine to have a place to store and use my various telescopes. After purchasing an original C8 and a 13 inch Dobsonian telescope, I knew I had to finally build an observatory to put them in.

This is a roll-off roof design. The interior is 8 foot by 8 foot, just barely enough room for my needs at present. There is still some work to be done to make the roll-off roof easier to move (it turned out to be much heavier than I expected...but then, it will not blow off!)

My desire is to produce some good quality images of the night sky and bring awareness to the awesome creativity of God in the starry heavens.