Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Jupiter under poor viewing conditions

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The weather is starting to clear up but the air is still quite soupy (lots of atmospheric turbulance.) But I thought I would give it a t...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Review of the Bushnell NorthStar 78-8890 90mm Catadioptric Telescope

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Last weekend I picked up a Bushnell NorthStar 90mm Catadioptric Telescope for a reasonable price of $150 off of craigslist. I bought t...
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Crisp 15 degree F morning yields 4 astro beauties!

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This morning I captured four astronomical beauties with my small Bushnell NorthStar 1300mm x 100mm 4" Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Back in the Observatory Again!

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It finally cleared up enough on March 12, 2014 to shoot the Moon for a few minutes.  This shot, though incomplete,  is actually a c...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Working on Stacking Technique

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Nothing really spectacular tonight as clouds started to come in but with 3+ days of winter weather coming my way I thought that I would at ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Captured my first supernova tonight!

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Spaceweather.com notified us that a white dwarf star had just gone supernova in the "Cigar" galaxy (M82, which is near the bowl o...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Some improvement on my astrophotography...I think!

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I pushed the limits of my Canon T2i by taking five 10 second shots of the Great Orion Nebula at 12,800 iso, prime focus on my original Cele...