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. …
With the new 3.5 release, Star Citizen finally has female characters! Here I am looking out the window at Riker Memorial Spaceport at Area 18 on ArcCorp.
Tonight I made my first photos using my new tracking mount for my camera. Alas! I live in the heavily light polluted skies of suburban Houston, so I could only do 30 second exposures before the image got too washed out. I also don’t really know my way in image processing, yet, but here are …
The latest patch to Star Citizen includes the first major planet: Hurston, and city: Lorville. Here’s a couple of screenshots I made the first time in. First is me sitting on the train traveling from Teasa Spaceport to the central part of the city. Here’s a view looking out over a balcony onto the city. …
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