Hersey – Page 10 – The Suffolk Sky

01/04/2024 – A Heart and A Rose

January 5, 2024 by Hersey

A cold clear night. I uncovered the scope just before dark. I started my polar alignment as soon as it was dark enough to get enough stars to plate solve, which was just after 6 PM. I had the ZWO Duo-Band Filter…

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Hubble Palette Using the HubbleMatic Siril Script

January 1, 2024 by Hersey

The Hubble palette is a color palette made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It is also known as the “HST” or “SHO” palette. The Hubble palette is made by loading SHO or S-II, Hydrogen-alpha (Ha), and O-III as red, green,…

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12/30/2023 – A Flaming Star Nebula

December 31, 2023 by Hersey

The scope has been put away for the last couple weeks due to the weather and just all the stuff going on with Christmas and such. The forecast looked pretty good for Saturday night, even though the Moon was nearing full, so…

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12/15/2023 – Witch Head Nebula

December 16, 2023 by Hersey

Another nice clear night. A little warmer (just a little) with temperatures in the mid-30s. I set out to capture a couple more hours of IC 2118, the Witch Head Nebula, to add to the data from my EAA session on 12/14….

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12/14/2023 – EAA – A Galaxy, A Spider, and A Witch

December 15, 2023 by Hersey

Another clear and cold night, with no Moon. The last couple sessions I have been capturing data of the Drunken Dragon Nebula (LBN 762) for post-processing, for this session I decided to go back to doing some EAA. I uncovered the scope…

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12/12/2023 – A Drunker Drunken Dragon

December 13, 2023 by Hersey

Last night was another cold clear night. I continued capturing data of the nebula LBN 762, also known as the Drunken Dragon Nebula. This nebula is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Aries. It is also the Skywatcher USA Target…

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12/11/2023 – LBN 762 – A Drunken Dragon

December 12, 2023 by Hersey

A couple nights ago I was tinkering around with the telescope and broadcasting on the Night Skies Network. Dave from West Virginia joined the broadcast and mentioned a dark nebula, LBN 762, and this target was the SkywatcherUSA Target of the Month…

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11/18/2023 – EAA – A Few Galaxies and the Horsehead Nebula

November 19, 2023 by Hersey

A very nice clear night. Temperatures in the mid-to-low 50s and a 34% waxing Moon. Hunted a few galaxies, two of which I have visited before and a really interesting one I have not observed before. Orion was rising high enough in…

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11/06/2023 – More Soap Bubble Time from 11/05/2023…

November 6, 2023 by Hersey

Sunday night was nice and clear, and with setting the clocks back it was dark pretty early. I decided to get some more data on the Soap Bubble Nebula (PN G075.5+01.7). I collected 3 hours and 2 minutes (91 x 120 seconds)…

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11/03/2023 – The Soap Bubble Nebula

November 4, 2023 by Hersey

OK OK OK… So this is really cool… well at least I think so… so very cool. The other night when I was EAA observing the Crescent Nebula and broadcasting on Night Skies Network, a couple of the folks that joined the…

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