Hersey – Page 10 – The Suffolk Sky

Learning KStars/Ekos – Using Flags

February 12, 2024 by Hersey

Weather has been pretty crappy, looks like our next chance for clear skies is on Tuesday. Hope to get a bit of time on Goofi’s February 2024 challenge, IC 434 (the Horsehead Nebula) when the sky clears up. With all the clouds…

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02/07/2024 – More Time on a Couple of Planetary Nebulas

February 8, 2024 by Hersey

A nice cool and very clear Moonless night. I was able to capture a little more than 3 1/2 hours of light from the planetary nebulas PK 136+05 and PN G136.1+04.9. The planetary nebula PK 136+05, aka Hechathorn-Fesen-Gull 1 of HFG1, is…

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02/05/2024 – Planetary Nebula PK 136+05 and PN G136.1+04.9

February 6, 2024 by Hersey

Clear and cold night with no Moon! Great night to collect some light from Hechathorn-Fesen-Gull 1 (aka HFG1 or PK 136+05) a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. HFG1 is the SkyWatcherUSA Target of the Month (TOTM) for February 2024….

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Automating Image Processing Using Siril Scripts…

January 28, 2024 by Hersey

Siril is a powerful freeware astronomical image processing tool. One of the features of Siril which I find very useful (and fun to tinker with) is the ability to automate image pre-processing and processing tasks using scripts. Automating things like creating master…

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Observation Planning… What is there to see?

January 26, 2024 by Hersey

There are countless (thousands, 10s of thousands, millions, billions) objects in the night sky. There are many object catalogs (NGC, Messier, IC, Caldwell, Barnard, LBN, PGC, UGC, Abell, etc…). Not all of these objects and catalogs are available in every planetarium program,…

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01/21/2024 – More Light from the Dolphin Head Nebula

January 22, 2024 by Hersey

Another very cold and clear night so I took the opportunity to capture some more light from the Dolphin Head Nebula (Sh2-308/LBN 1052) I was able to add just over an hour and half to the just over an hour and a…

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01/20/2024 – The Dolphin Head Nebula

January 21, 2024 by Hersey

Clear and cold… very cold. I uncovered the scope a in the late afternoon. One thing about the cold is it doesn’t take long for the camera to cool down 🙂 After dark I ran the Ekos Auto Focus and Polar Alignment….

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01/11/2024 – NGC 1333 – A Reflection and Dark Nebula

January 12, 2024 by Hersey

It was clear and cool, mid-40’s when I started out and low-30’s by the end of the night. The Moon is new, so no issues there. I uncovered the scope early in the afternoon and was ready to start capturing light at…

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All Sky Camera Upgrades and Updates…

January 11, 2024 by Hersey

I am upgrading the Raspberry Pi 3B 1 GB which is currently running the my all sky camera to a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB. The Pi3 has been working fine but I had the Raspberry Pi 4 freed up from another project…

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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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