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…
Nothing but clouds here lately 🙁 Spent a some time messing with my RaspAstroWeb python application running on my All Sky Camera Raspberry Pi. Added the ability to get the 30 day Moon forecast for a given US zip code.
I have been doing a bit of tinkering with my RaspAstro Web application. I added two new pages one dedicated to the Sun and one dedicated to the Moon. The RaspAstro Web is a web application written in Python which uses pyEphem…
I have thought about picking up a SeeStar S50 a few times, it has made it into my AgenaAstro cart more than once. After seeing some of the images captured, and watching a NightSkiesNetwork.com broadcast, using the SeeStar S50 during the Solar…
Beautiful weather the April 8, 2024 Solar Eclipse. Temperatures in the mid-70s and a nice mostly clear sky. Just a few passing thin clouds. The weather forecast had been a bit all over the place in the days leading up to the…
In the early morning of March 25, 2024 there was a penumbral lunar eclipse. At 3:12 AM EDT around 95% of the Moon was in Earth’s penumbral shadow. I captured images of the Moon from just after the start of the eclipse…
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…
Before packing it in last night I took a 100 or so exposures of the Moon just to see what I might be able to do with it. The exposures were 0.000032 seconds which is the shortest exposure Ekos would allow me…
A nice clear weekend night with mild temperatures in the low 60s. Oh and the Moon is 94% full 🙁 It seems like it has been forever since the last time I was able to observe so I set up the scope…
Either the Moon has be bright or the skies have been cloudy so I have not had the opportunity to get out and observe in the past week. I have been working on the RaspAstro project. I initially started this project as…
Just a quick picture of the Moon taken early evening 12/17/2021 before the clouds moved in. One night before the full Moon. I can almost get the entire Moon in the SV305‘s field of view through my AstroTech AT66. More to come…