Category: Deep Sky
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M13, Globular Cluster in Hercules
M13, Globular Cluster in Hercules (the first shot from Ad Astra Observatory)
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography / Observatory / Observing Reports
Re: Latest Astrophoto
Sweet Jimbo! I am glad all is working. Is this with the new lens you ground? Cliff At 10:21 AM 6/23/2006, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I picked up this shot last […]
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M20, The Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius
Shot while up in Shingletown, CA during July 2005 and finally(!) processed and uploaded in August 2006…
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M8, The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius
Shot while up in Shingletown, CA during July 2005 and finally(!) processed and uploaded in August 2006…
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M16, The Eagle Nebula in Serpens
Shot while up in Shingletown, CA during July 2005 and finally(!) processed and uploaded in August 2006…
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M31, The Great Andromeda Galaxy
Shot while up in Shingletown, CA during July 2005 and finally(!) processed and uploaded in August 2006… This image is in grayscale because the original had messed up colors from amp glow.
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
M3, Globular Cluster in Canes Venatici
A first attempt at M3. It’s pretty low in the west…
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
M6 and M7 widefield
M6, M7 open clusters in Scorpius, and surrounds. One of the first shots from my new Nikon D70 DSLR.
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M42, The Great Orion Nebula
larger version The difference made by going to a dark sky site is stark.
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Polar Alignment Calculations
Here’s a page that derives Polar Alignment Calculations. (update 5/2020: the original site is gone, so I found the text on Wayback and am inserting it below. This is by the original […]
Gear / Observatory / Telescope
Special Guest Star takes the mount at Hilltop O
The Astro Jedi needed somewhere to store his light sab—- I mean, bucket, and I was only too happy to accommodate him. I have decided that I need to come to a […]
General / Maintenance / Observatory
Dome shutter is motorized again!
I finally decided to bite the bullet and fix the shutter motor. Things went sideways last winter, and I’ve been opening the shutter manually (and tying it shut with rope, so we […]
Trixie 2017 – tube mods
I finally got around to cutting the MTA-UTA tubes to length; the only eyepiece that would come to focus with the focuser spacer in place is the Televue 55mm Plossl. If I […]
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Observatory
Observatory 2.0 – Time has come today!
General / Maintenance
First Light, a deeper look
Mount / Observatory / Telescope
Observatory 2.0 – Result!
Observatory
Observatory 2.0 – The Pier goes in
Gear / General / Maintenance
Martin Farmer Wormblock installation notes
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
NGC2244, The Rosette Nebula
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
Another beautiful night.