Hersey – The Suffolk Sky

03/03/2025 – The Leo Triplet

March 4, 2025 by Hersey

Little warmer than last night, but still cool in the mid-to-upper 30s. Bit more of the waxing Crescent Moon, but not enough to be a bother. Earlier in the day I swapped out scopes on the mount, putting the SVBONY 102ED back…

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03/02/2025 – The Boogeyman Nebula

March 3, 2025 by Hersey

Clear, cold (upper 20s F), night. Just a little sliver of the 15% waxing Crescent Moon in the SW sky. I uncovered the AT66ED to capture the March Sky-Watcher USA TOTM, LDN 1622 or the Boogeyman Nebula. The dark nebula LDN 1622…

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02/25/2025 – Some SeeStar EAA – Capturing a Few Messiers

February 26, 2025 by Hersey

Set the SeeStar up just before dark. Updated the app and the firmware, then adjusted the level. Nice clear night in the low 50s, dropping into the mid-40s as the Sun went down. I started capturing Messier objects just after 7 PM….

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02/01/2025 – LBN 777 – The Baby Eagle Nebula TOTM

February 2, 2025 by Hersey

The forecast was calling for a clear sky for most of the night so I set things up to capture the SkywatcherUSA TOTM for February 2025, LBN 777 the Baby Eagle Nebula or Vulture Head Nebula. The night started off clear, cool,…

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01/28/2025 – SeeStar Mosaic – M 45, The Pleiades

January 29, 2025 by Hersey

A lot of high thin clouds moving across the sky but it has been a bit since I have been able to look up so I decided to get the SeeStar out. It was a lot warmer than it has been (well…

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A Few Simple Raspberry Pi Scripts for SeeStar Alp

January 22, 2025 by Hersey

It snowed last night and it is very cold today. The Sun is suppose to come out this afternoon and the sky is suppose to be clear tonight. Hopefully I can get the SeeStar out for a bit. As storms like this…

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01/15/2025 – Horsehead Nebula SeeStar Mosaic

January 16, 2025 by Hersey

Nice, clear, and very cold night. The bright Moon rose in the east a little after 7 PM. Since it was clear I had a go at another mosaic from the SeeStar using SeeStar Alp. This time on the area around the…

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01/11/2025 – SeeStar Mosaic of M 42 and Orion’s Sword

January 12, 2025 by Hersey

Friday night it snowed. Not too bad, a couple inches and a lot of it melted in the Sun on Saturday afternoon. Saturday night was cold and clear, the nearly full Moon was super bright. I set up and leveled the SeeStar…

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01/09/2025 – SeeStar Alp First Light – An Owl, a Crab, and a Monkey’s Head

January 10, 2025 by Hersey

Very cold, very clear, and a very bright 80% waxing Moon high in the sky. Didn’t want to fight the Moon with any long exposure light gathering so I decided to do a bit of EAA observing with the SeeStar S50 to…

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Simple SeeStar Controller with SeeStar Alp on a Raspberry Pi

January 7, 2025 by Hersey

I stumbled upon this open source project, seestar_alp, which allows remote control of a SeeStar S50 using a web interface called the Simple SeeStar Controller (SSC) running on a Raspberry Pi (there are options for Windows and Mac as well). The Simple…

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