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…
Happy New Year!!! First light captured in 2025 on a cold clear night. A thin waxing crescent Moon in the west set shortly after the Sun. For this session I swapped out the ZWO Duo-Band filter for the SVBONY SV240 Multi-Narrowband filter…
A nice clear night with no Moon. A bit humid and the temperature dropped to the upper 30s after the Sun went down. I set up framing in NINA and created a sequence to collect 6 hours of light from the Rosette…
Merry Christmas!!! NGC 2264 and the surrounding area seemed like a very appropriate target for this time of year. Very cold (24 F), mostly clear, night with a waning last quarter Moon which did not rise until after midnight. A few high…
A little warmer, but still a cold (low 30’s) and mostly clear night. There were a few high clouds early on, but these cleared up around 7:30 PM or so. A bit more of the waxing Moon, but still not enough to…
Nice clear, cold night. Little bit of a waxing Moon (30% or so), not yet bright enough to cause to many issues. Uncovered the scope in the early afternoon and cooled down the camera. After the Sun set I did a quick…
Continued collecting some more light from the Tadpole Nebula, the Spider Nebula, and the Fly Nebula through the AT66ED with the ZWO Duo-Band Filter. Ended up with 3 hours of light from 12/02 and 7 hours from 12/03. A total of 10…
Just wanted to share a quick peak at some light I collected from IC 410 (the Tadpole Nebula), IC 417 (the Spider Nebula), and NGC 1931 (the Fly Nebula) on 12/02/2024. I plan to collect more photons from these objects over the…
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. The day after Thanksgiving was partly/mostly cloudy most of the day but the Clear Outside Forecast was calling for the sky to clear up just after dark and it did, mostly. A few thin clouds here…
Nice night to grab some light from a far away place. Cool in the low 40s (upper 30s by the end of the night), very nice an clear with no Moon. The plan for the night was to shoot a galaxy, something…
Nice clear night and the crescent Moon set early. I wanted to give the SVBONY SV193 0.8 Focal Reducer I have for the SV503 a try in the AT66ED. Wanted to see if I could get focus and if it helped flatten…