Friday, August 29, 2014

17 Visitors to the La Pine Observatory tonight

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The Primetimer's of Grace Fellowship Church of La Pine, Oregon visited the observatory tonight.  Viewed were Sataurn, Mars, the crescent...
Monday, August 25, 2014

A Comet, The Ring Nebula, and A Poor Man's Spectrometer

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After last night's capture of the motion of Comet Jacques C/2014 E2, I headed out to the observatory for another attempt to capture any...

Comet Jacques C/2014 E2

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This is an animation of Comet Jacques C/2014 E2 as it flies through Cassiopeia on August 23, 2014. This is its motion over just 17 minutes...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Four visiters to the Observatory tonight!

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Some friends of ours and two of their grandchildren observed the Moon, Saturn, Mars, the double star in the Northern Cross,  the triple star...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

First Light with my 6 inch Meade LXD75

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Skies finally cleared up tonight! So I broke out the latest addition to my observatory,  the 6 inch LXD75 scope. I was very impressed!  Both...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Meade LXD75 AR6-AT Achromatic Refractor Telescope with AutoStar

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Just picked this scope off of craigslist for my observatory today. I have always wanted a refractor scope with goto ability but I wanted it ...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Fires and Rain...preventing observation s

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This has been a different summer with smoke from many forest fires (both human and lightning causes) as well as lots of cloudiness and thund...