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…
Last night I set up the gear and got things ready for the clear skies we are expecting this weekend. I wanted to test out the ZWO Electronic Automatic Focuser (EAF) focusing on the main scope using the Autofocus routine in the…
Electronically Assisted Astronomy, or EAA, is a method of observing where the telescope eyepiece is replaced with a camera. Images of an object are captured and then live stacked to be viewed in real time. This is a bit different from Astrophotography…
Another nice clear night, pretty much the same as last night. Observed a few more Messiers for the log and a couple of other interesting objects while I was just looking around. Earlier in the month I had a lot of issues…
A nice cool, in the mid-60s, and clear night. A bit hazy, but not too bad overall. My plan for this session was to revisit some of the objects on the CloudyNight’s September 2022 EAA Observing Challenge list and to see what…
Finally after more than a month we had a clear night sky on Friday. It was warm and humid but clear. The Moon was about half full in the Southwest sky. In the late afternoon I uncovered the scope and connected the…
It has been a while since I have been able to get out and observe. Mostly due to no clear weekend nights. It was hot with high thin clouds most of the day on 07/23/2022 but the sky mostly cleared after 8:30…
I uncovered the scope in the late afternoon and hoped for the sky to clear, it mostly did. Mostly clear night, a few high thin clouds moving quickly across the sky, temperatures in the lower 70s. My plan was to hunt for…
Another warm, clear night. Temperatures were in the mid to lower 70’s and it was a little less humid than the night before. My plan was to try to pick up a few more of the Messiers over in the area of…
A warm, humid, clear night. Temperatures in the mid-70’s and lots of mosquitos. If it was not for EAA I probably would have been eaten alive. I started out the night with not much of a plan, but I did want to…
A warm day and a warm, in the upper 70s, clear night. I set up to capture a few globular clusters for my Messier Log and I ended up observing a total of 8 Messier globular clusters, a couple of nebula, and…