La Pine Observatory
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
DYI alternative to Bob's Knobs for my Celestron C8
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Instead of buying Bob's Knobs to aid with the collimation of my C8 (original Orange tube, pre-1980) I went to the nearby Ace Hardware ...
How I made fine adjustments to the vertical polar alignment on my C8
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It can be really difficult to make fine adjustments to the polar angle due to the weight of a telescope on the wedge. I have an old Celest...
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Working on getting the Celestron C8 polar aligned
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Had just a little bit of clear skies tonight and so I opened up the observatory about 5:45 pm and took some wide angle shots of the sky aro...
Comet ISON
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Captured Comet ISON just before it dropped too low to photograph November 22, 2013 Canon T2i 250mm f/5.6 5 sec
Comet Lovejoy
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Took this photo of Comet Lovejoy from my La Pine Observatory on November 15, 2013. Canon T2i 200mm ISO 6400 30 seconds
Thursday, November 7, 2013
No observing due to cloudy, rainy, snowing weather!
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It seems like we have hit that patch in the late fall of lots of clouds and wet weather. It has been nearly a week since the last time one ...
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