Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Celestron NexStar 4SE Telescope is here!

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After my first Celestron NexStar 4SE was received out of collimation, Celestron honored its warranty and replaced it with another new one. ...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

After a spring snowfall... M3

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Messier 3 Well, we do live in the high desert and so after a few very warm days... we had a very cold one... with snow! So I felt it...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

April 8, 2016 Another clear night and M65 and M66

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After getting home from helping at Celebrate Recovery I expected the skies to be mucky. But they were relatively clear! Three nights in a r...
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April 7, 2016 Another CLEAR night in a row photographing M3, M5, M51, M63, M101

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Can you believe it, TWO nights in a row! Since the new setup with the marriage of the NexStar 8iSE and the Meade LXD-75 GEM worked out so...
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April 6, 2016 Getting the GEM setup with the NexStar 8iSE scope

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Warm weather moved into the interior of Oregon and so I headed out to the obs to do some aligning of my new setup. I demounted the optical...
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Friday, March 18, 2016

It was a windy night...

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... but I got out into the observatory to check out my Celestron NexStar 8iSE on the Moon. Here are some images captured through it. I end...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Ever wonder what Northern Lights look like in REAL time (not time-lapse)?

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Alan Dyer braved the cold air of Churchill, Manitoba, to grab real-time video of an auroral display that approximates very closely what you...