Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Asteroids Asteroids Asteroids

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NASA has a brief video showing all the known asteroids in our solar system. While most of us know that there is an asteroid belt between Ma...

How to Detect Exoplanets with Inexpensive Astroimaging Equipment!

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Hi, all. I ran across this youtube video about how one can use the ZWO ASI 120 MM monochrome camera with minimal equipment (an equatorial m...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Clear Skies: Day 1 M 33, Deep Sky Stacker in Mac OS and Guiding Tests

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Clear Skies: Day 1 M 33 Galaxy (no cropping) DeepSkyStacker 3.2.2 in Mac OS High Sierra (using Wine) Total time: 20 minutes from 6 frames...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Surprise! A Clear Evening... Great for Tests with Auto-guiding

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It was supposed to be partly cloudy and then before sunset  a wind came in a surprisingly cleared out the clouds! I have just received a ...
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Friday, August 24, 2018

Flashback to the Total Solar Eclipse of 1979 !

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FLASHBACK! My wife, Denese, found three photos I took of the February 25, 1979 total solar eclipse from Goldendale, Washington!  Camera: ...
Friday, August 3, 2018

A Short Night in the Obs !

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After two weeks of smoke from forest fires hindering deep sky astroimaging, the skies cleared up last night! Whoohoo!  The Gamma Cyn...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Faux-Total Lunar Eclipse !

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While we did not see the REAL total lunar eclipse (it was not visible from the USA), the smoke from the fires around Crater Lake pushed up ...