Almost nine months has passed since I was last on here, falling down the stairs and breaking my replacement knee put me in hospital. The knee was not so much the problem as what else they found at the hospital, heart, kidney and postrate problems all came along at the same time and I also picked up an infection from the hospital!! So, all in all I was in and out of the place and not expecting to get back to sky watching again, but here I am :hello2: and a lot to learn all over again :). Befo
Hi all well last night was a great night for me .i gave the system a bit of a go and it worked .well sort of i will not go on about the settings ect as there in the dso`s forum on here i will include a few pics. well i started with double in Pers and i did have a few mistakes ,on i forgot to switch the pec on after training it for 8 mins forgot to hit play. that drama over i took 20x15 secs and moved on,they looked ok zoomed no trails M13 was next this was a lot easier the celestron 0.63
Out Monday tea time, had a look for mercury, just above houses horizon line, no detail but did look like half moon, Venus very big and out doing Jupiter, and mars is now getting bigger has it climbs high early tea time. Although the moon was nearly full and blanking out the constellations. Orion is swinging well in to west now, shame really soon be loosing it.
Spent a rainy afternoon recovering a rather blurry photograph I took a year ago in Norway. At the time I was quite annoyed with my self in not obtaining a sharp focus of the Pleiades whilst concentrating on the Aurora above. http://stargazerslounge.com/members/hawksmoor-albums-aurora-picture16089-aurora-above-pleiades.jpg
a few more images did these last night.webcam and c gem sc9.25 xlt was a clouds damp night .but mars was out and the moon i did try for a M45 took one 55 sec and the cloud came
hi, was listening to radio in my shed and they said there was meteor showers last night? they where spectacular according to the person on minster fm in york uk. checked the books nothing till april, whats going on? any one else seen them in yorkshire?
Seeing as the buzz was all about Mars, I decided to try and see it using my 8SE, this would be the first real effort on the NEQ6 mount too. I set up just after 6pm, the skies were clear and forecast to stay that way pretty much all night according to WeatherProHD on my iPad. I didn't wait long for the scope to cool, it wasn't that cold outside anyway (about 7 degrees), so I trained it on Venus which was just setting in the West. Venus appeared to be just less than half in shadow, the lower po
February 29th, 2012
Stargazing during the week when there is school the next day is always very tricky since time is a factor. Each minute I remain outside means less time to prepare for classes to be taught for the next day but sometimes,... passion wins over. Last night was one of those nights! Besides it's not every night where one can stargaze on February 29th! Ready for the LEAP?
Since I knew I had little time and had not made any previous research to what I was going to obser
Last night and this afternoon.i got some shots of the sun,and some video of the moon and mars they are below my image voyage as begun i have posted the pics in all relevant threads webcam phillips 10d for sun mars webcam
If you look out of your window, at any time, on any given day of the year you will see a myriad of object’s, both simple and complex. For most, these are simply everyday occurrences that become lost, within’ the hectic lifestyle of the human race. Have you ever sat back and pondered where the fundamental building blocks of the things we all take for granted come from?. One of my favourite quotes from the great Carl Sagan is; “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first inve
HI out last night 25th feb, got the 5 inch dob heritage out, struggling to see the m objects! out with the celestron sky masters 15x70 and.... what a difference, theres something about them lenses in them bins, really crisp and they pull stuff in, i was having to find stuff with bins then guide my scope on to it, there must have been a lot a lot of light pollution because the sirius m objects where not seen. But then again my sky-watcher mak 90mm good for planet viewing and orion neb, and moo
Well back down the lane again, quicker setup but nearly snapped the goto cable tripping over it. All obs with 9mm. Moon 3d with filter, didn't Barlow so crescent complete edge to edge with nice central mare Venus obscured by cloud Jupiter, 2 dark cloud bands, but 4 gallileo moons in two pairs winging up either side of the planet. M35 non Barlow, saw boundaries, still pretty. M36 nice, easy to find, looks like 5 pointed star or upside down spaceman. M37 easy again, looks like dark lanes running
Tonight Venus was very close to the crescent Moon with Jupiter sailing above and to the south. I took a quick snap with a compact camera perched on top of our car. Really doesn't do the scene credit. Very beautiful even though in competition with the glare from the street lights.
February 24th, 2012
The mercury boasted a temperature of -21. Since the wind was inactive, this created comfortable viewing conditions outside. I wanted to post many of my own pictures with this entry but my chosen photographic subjects were not very cooperative except for the first two seen on the bottom left.
Early in the evening, around 6:30 pm, a small crescent moon seemed to dance in the advancing darkness while Venus and Jupiter praised our natural satellite with their
I got home tonight and just had to grab a quick shot of the Moon and Venus together. I was amazed by the sight. I've never seen two bodies so close together. I used my Cannon Camera with a 2" Light Pollution filter blue tacked to the lens, as suggested by todd8137. I love the result, it almost looks Alien.
What a marvelous day for February. The thermometer in our back garden reached seventeen degrees Celsius this afternoon. A truly balmy day for the East Coast of Britain in winter. Whilst taking rubbish out to the dustbin I noticed that Jupiter, Venus and the new crescent moon were arranged in a line leading to the west where the sun had just set. Quite beautiful, with the thin crescent moon on its back and partially illuminated by earth-shine.
Its a beautiful sunny day on the East Coast. Have been to the hospital to have an MOT on hip and back. Received great service and care from all staff at the James Paget Hospital. The NHS is great!:hello2: Having a bit of time on my hands and wanting a sit down, have spent an hour with an old photo of M57 which I took last summer in my backyard. Quite pleased with myself in that I have worked out how to use the de-convolution algorithms in IRIS software. (Probably less than pleased with myself
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