Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Major Sunspot Group AR 2665 Makes It Around the Sun a Full Revolution !

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Scientists call sunspot groups by a letter and number designation. This sunspot group is labeled AR 2665. It has just REAPPEARED after maki...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

A Cheap Hack to Make Focusing Easier with my Meade LX200GPS scope

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While the focusing knob on my scope is easy to rotate, trying to do fine focusing isn't. The problem is that the knob is just to small...
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Thursday, July 27, 2017

TV Interview About My Involvement in the Citizen CATE Experiment!

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I was interviewed today by our local NBC tv station (KTVZ - Z21 News) about my involvement in the Citizen CATE Experiment.  Here...

Who's up for Round 2? My Memories of the 1979 Total Solar Eclipse

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I am getting ready to view my second total solar eclipse this August 21, 2017, this time for science and personal enjoyment. As a cont...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

My Visit to Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii

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On our 40th wedding anniversary my wife and I went to Kona, Hawaii to celebrate. When I realized that some of the great observatories wer...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Successful Test: Mulitple Night Stacking - M27 aka Dumbell Nebula

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Having seen other astrophotographers not only stack a night's worth of images but now multiple night's worth of images of the same ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Back in the Observatory Again! M13 is beautiful !

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It has been quite some time since I last did some astrophotography in my backyard observatory and I found that pine pollen had covered ever...