OK. Last night I made yet another attempt at photographing M42. This time I took a series of 90 second exposures, got all the needed flats, darks, and bias frames, and processed them with slightly more understanding of how to manipulate photos. Behold! The red colors are still very faint, and I had to crop …
So earlier this month I took a nice photo of M42, but it was an off the cuff event that I really didn’t plan out. Last night I made a second attempt and I was prepared this time. I bought a Bahtinov mask to help me get sharp focus, I took proper dark frames and …
Last July I bought a nice new telescope – an 8 inch Meade LX-200 – but since then I’ve only really tinkered with it visually. Tonight was a clear night, and I’ve been meaning for months to observe M42, so I set up the scope on the deck in the back yard and took a …
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The first two images are from the 3.7 release, and the last two are from 3.8.
A Visit From Saint Vanduul or The Night Before Orion Twas the night before Orion and all through the kingship Not a creature was stirring, not even AI chips. The loot sacks were hung by the reactor with care, In hopes that Saint Vanduul soon would be there. The hatchlings were nestled all snug in …
These are all of my eyepieces. Back row: Televue Panoptic 41mm, Televue Nagler 22mm, Televue Delos 12mm, Televue Nagler 9mm Middle row: Celestron Plössl 32mm, Orion Expanse 15mm, Celestron Plössl 12.5mm, Orion Expanse 6mm Bottom row. Meade MA 40mm, Meade MA 25mm, Meade MA 12mm The TeleVue 41mm and 22mm have 2″ barrels. The Meade …
This is a cell phone camera video taken through the eyepiece of my new telescope. It shows Mare Serenitatis at 222x maginfaction. You should probably mute it as the sounds is just the wind on the microphone. As I get to know the equipment better I hope to start taking nicer pictures, so this is …
My mother died sometime yesterday while I was at work. When I came home it looked like she was asleep, and since she had trouble sleeping I didn’t want to disturb her. About 9pm my sister texted me asking me to check on Mother because she wasn’t answering her phone, and that is when I …
I recently turned 50, and a couple of nights after my birthday, I tried to do something with my Orion StarBlast 4.5″ telescope and I had trouble with it. The RA setting circle just doesn’t work at all. I tried fixing it, but despite my best efforts I was unable to get it to work. …