Thursday, March 26, 2020

Two Galaxies: M 81 & M 82 - My Best Effort So Far

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(click on the image for a larger view) Last night's capture of M 81 & M 82 Scope: Daystar 480mm Doublet f/6 Camera: Canon ...
Friday, March 20, 2020

First Real Test of Guan Sheng Optical's RC 6" astrograph

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M 1 - The Crab Nebula First attempt but the collimation of the scope is off. The image is not as sharp and detailed as it can be. ...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

Unexpected clear sky... at least for two hours!

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Bode's Galaxy (M 81) near the Big Dipper (Ursa Major). Got a surprise clear night! DATA: Celestron C6 with Meade .6 focal red...
Friday, February 21, 2020

RawTherapee app Conquers Chromatic Aberration!

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While I have written before about this noisome issue of purple fringing on stars I have found that the RawTherapee (google it) app does a f...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

The Occultation of Mars by the Moon Captured

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Got up early this morning and caught the 4:38 am exiting of Mars from behind the Moon!  Thank you, my wonderful wife, for helping me...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

Finally, after 40 days and 40 nights of clouds, snow and rain...Two Images!

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First up, The Rosette Nebula (north east of the constellation Orion). Under a "first quarter" moon it finally cleared up last...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

2019 Year In Review Poster

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2019 is in the books and here are the stats: For 64 nights of 2019 I was in the obs imaging ( 17% ) an average of only 5 days per month...