Betelguese, Betelguese, Betelguese!
Betelguese focus test shot from 2010-03-13. I had to use diffraction spikes since I left my regular focus mask at home. It looks kind of cool with the diff spikes, even to a guy that generally doesn’t like them.
Mount is up and ready to go, so it’s cloudy.
A little venting on Meade QA and the direction they should be heading.
First image of 2010
I took this image of M42/M42/NGC1977 on January 12th after re-remembering how to accurately align a mount that isn’t permanently installed. I took about an hour and a half of subs with several having to be rejected for one reason or another. I still am having a problem with my serial shutter cable which I …
A little LXD-75 maintainance
After the last imaging session I had I noticed a little bounce in my mount on the RA axis. I decided I could live with that for the night and then resolve it at a later date. The following weekend I spent with my parents and my kiddos at a local kids resort with an …
Back in the saddle
It’s been fairly eventful the last couple of weeks. With the Christmas holidays there was of course little time for observing with anything more sophisticated than Ye Olde Mk. 1 Eyeballs. After Christmas I took advantage of a warm night and set my mount up for a little testing after installing my Warps Drive upgrade …
M42 from last year
M42 taken December 2008 from Dallas, TX. While the local skies aren’t the worst I’ve seen in a city they’re still far from perfect. The large population of high pressure sodium and mercury lamps from city streets and local shops floods out most of the stars. M42 is only visible with the naked eye on …
M13 – Globular Cluster in Hercules
M13 is a favorite subject for many observers, myself included. I’ve looked at it from the backyard with my own eyeball. I’ve seen it through my 8×50 binoculars. I’ve looked at it in a Dobsonian with a photomultiplier. This globular cluster contains over 100,000 stars that are all held in this fuzzy ball by the …
UrbanAstronomy.com v1.1
My mission is to get people in urban areas to think about what’s in the sky above them. Just because you’re in the city doesn’t mean the stars don’t exist or that you can’t see or understand really cool celestial events.