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…
A very nice clear night. Temperatures in the mid-to-low 50s and a 34% waxing Moon. Hunted a few galaxies, two of which I have visited before and a really interesting one I have not observed before. Orion was rising high enough in…
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…
I captured an hours worth of data each of the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, and the Pelican Nebula, IC 5070, the night of 10/28/2023. I captured 30 x 120 second exposures each at 121 gain, 8 offset and bin 2×2. I used…
A clear warm night with a very bright full Moon. I started a soon as the Sun went down hoping to get some views before the Moon was too high in the sky. I had a plan for three nebula, the Crescent…
Clear with temperatures in the mid/low 60s. A very nice night, other than the bright 89% waxing Moon. Still it has been a while so it was good to collect some light through the scope. My plan for the night was to…
During my EAA session on 09/02/2023 I observed the Elephant’s Trunk region of IC 1396, but it was not framed very well. Last night I decided to capture some more data centering on IC 1396A to frame the nebula better and to…
Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday weekend. Here in Southeastern Virginia Saturday was a beautiful day which gave way to a nice clear night. I uncovered the scope before dark and took a few sets of dark frames and a quick set…
Saturday night was a very nice clear night with temperatures in the mid-70s and a the humidity was a bit lower than it has been. Just a nice night overall and the best clear night sky we have had in a very…
It has been a pretty good while, most of the summer, since the Suffolk Sky has seen a clear night on a night that was not a school night. The forecast looked decent for this Friday night, so I got everything set…