Hersey – The Suffolk Sky

Scope Buggy Build Part 2… Rear Wheels…

January 18, 2022 by Hersey

Finally got around to making some progress on my scope buggy build. I am building a cart, aka scope buggy, which will allow me to easily move my gear from the garage to my observing area in the backyard without disassembling the…

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From the Archives – Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars…

January 16, 2022 by Hersey

Clouds and crappy weather for the next day or so, I actually packed away the telescope since the wind is suppose to whip up this afternoon. It has been set up in the back driveway since early December. I was digging through…

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EAA – 01/14/2022 – Galaxies, Clusters, Planetary Nebula…

January 15, 2022 by Hersey

It did not look good earlier in the day, but the forecast said it would clear so I set up the gear just before dark. The forecast was right! By 6:30 or so the skies were nice an clear. It was a…

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Remote EAA with Astroberry Web Manager…

January 13, 2022 by Hersey

I have been using my Raspberry Pi setup with Astroberry to remotely control my gear for a few EAA observing sessions now and it has been working out great. The clear nights have been cold and since I can access and control…

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EAA – 01/11/2022 – Open Clusters and Some Tries…

January 12, 2022 by Hersey

Clear and cold last night. Temperatures in the upper 20s. I uncovered the telescopes and set things up before dark. I started observing just after dark, about 6:30 PM. Good observing session, captured a few more open clusters, a galaxy, and tried…

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A Few Galaxy Pics from Way Back…

January 10, 2022 by Hersey

Cloudy Sunday night, but had a great time observing Friday and Saturday night. I put together a few more images I found in my archives which I captured a decade or so ago, this time a bunch of different galaxies. These captures…

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EAA – 01/09/2022 – Open Clusters and a Flame…

January 9, 2022 by Hersey

Last night was cold and clear. In the day light I rebalanced the mount. I started out my observing outside to get a proper polar alignment on the mount, it was way off. I used the Polar Alignment Tool in Ekos. It…

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First Image… From My Desk!

January 8, 2022 by Hersey

Tonight I tried some EAA observing from inside the house using the new Raspberry Pi Astroberry to control the telescope and camera. Spent a lot of time just messing and I have a lot of things to figure out, but it was…

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Setting Up a GPS Module on the Astroberry

January 6, 2022 by Hersey

I set up and tested my Raspberry Pi with Astroberry a few days ago. The GPS Module I ordered finally arrived and this post walks through how I set it up to get real-time GPS data for KStars. This is not really…

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Some Nebula from Back in the Day…

January 5, 2022 by Hersey

It’s raining and cold. Since I can’t observe or capture any new images I figured I would share some images I captured of a few nebula from way back in the summer and fall of 2010. These were all captured with my…

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