Exploring the Suffolk Virginia Night Sky – Astronomy, Astrophotography, Telescopes, EAA – Planets and Stars and Nebula and Galaxies – Looking, Learning, Sharing… Let's see what we can see…
Clear and cold… very cold. I uncovered the scope a in the late afternoon. One thing about the cold is it doesn’t take long for the camera to cool down 🙂 After dark I ran the Ekos Auto Focus and Polar Alignment….
It was clear and cool, mid-40’s when I started out and low-30’s by the end of the night. The Moon is new, so no issues there. I uncovered the scope early in the afternoon and was ready to start capturing light at…
A cold clear night. I uncovered the scope just before dark. I started my polar alignment as soon as it was dark enough to get enough stars to plate solve, which was just after 6 PM. I had the ZWO Duo-Band Filter…
The Hubble palette is a color palette made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It is also known as the “HST” or “SHO” palette. The Hubble palette is made by loading SHO or S-II, Hydrogen-alpha (Ha), and O-III as red, green,…
The scope has been put away for the last couple weeks due to the weather and just all the stuff going on with Christmas and such. The forecast looked pretty good for Saturday night, even though the Moon was nearing full, so…
Another nice clear night. A little warmer (just a little) with temperatures in the mid-30s. I set out to capture a couple more hours of IC 2118, the Witch Head Nebula, to add to the data from my EAA session on 12/14….
Last night was another cold clear night. I continued capturing data of the nebula LBN 762, also known as the Drunken Dragon Nebula. This nebula is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Aries. It is also the Skywatcher USA Target…
A couple nights ago I was tinkering around with the telescope and broadcasting on the Night Skies Network. Dave from West Virginia joined the broadcast and mentioned a dark nebula, LBN 762, and this target was the SkywatcherUSA Target of the Month…
Sunday night was nice and clear, and with setting the clocks back it was dark pretty early. I decided to get some more data on the Soap Bubble Nebula (PN G075.5+01.7). I collected 3 hours and 2 minutes (91 x 120 seconds)…
OK OK OK… So this is really cool… well at least I think so… so very cool. The other night when I was EAA observing the Crescent Nebula and broadcasting on Night Skies Network, a couple of the folks that joined the…