Saturday, April 6, 2019

Attempt at the Leo Triplet galaxies under poor skies

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The Leo Triplet of galaxies It "cleared up" for about an hour last night just before the next storm system came in, still mu...
Friday, April 5, 2019

The Rosette Nebula: Before and After

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Before star removal... So... what is "behind" all the stars that sometimes get in the way of seeing the full extent of nebu...
Monday, March 18, 2019

My Secondary Roll-off Roof Over My Observing Deck

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A while back I added an 8x8 foot observing deck to the side of my roll-off roof observatory. It became apparent that more needed to be ...
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A Brief Imaging Session of the Moon and 3 Galaxies

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The Moon - nearly full - March 17, 2019 Due to the brightness of the Moon I selected a few galaxies that were sufficiently far away ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

The First Clear Sky in 20 days! Result: The Rosetta Nebula!

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The Rosetta Nebula Daystar 480mm f/5 telescope Canon T3i camera at prime focus UNMODDED ISO 3200 Total integration time: 51 minu...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Don't Own A Telescope? There's Events to Enjoy in February's night sky!

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It's February! And if you don't have a telescope, break out your binoculars for some quick and easy astro-viewing of the dance ...
Friday, January 25, 2019

M 42 - The Great Orion Nebula - HDR technique used

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24*F last night and the seeing wasn't great but here is an HDR image of the Great Orion Nebula M 42.  HDR (high dynamic range) ima...