Hersey – Page 11 – The Suffolk Sky

11/02/2023 – EAA – Open Clusters and a Galaxy…

November 3, 2023 by Hersey

A cold and clear night. Temperatures in the low 40’s which is the coolest yet this fall. EAA is great cause my office was nice and toasty :). I had a plan to capture a few of the objects on the CloudyNights’…

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Processing Pelican Nebula and Crescent Nebula with Siril

October 30, 2023 by Hersey

I captured an hours worth of data each of the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, and the Pelican Nebula, IC 5070, the night of 10/28/2023. I captured 30 x 120 second exposures each at 121 gain, 8 offset and bin 2×2. I used…

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10/28/2023 – EAA – More Nebula with the Duo-Band

October 29, 2023 by Hersey

A clear warm night with a very bright full Moon. I started a soon as the Sun went down hoping to get some views before the Moon was too high in the sky. I had a plan for three nebula, the Crescent…

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10/25/2023 – EAA Duo-Band Broadcasted on the NSN

October 26, 2023 by Hersey

Clear with temperatures in the mid/low 60s. A very nice night, other than the bright 89% waxing Moon. Still it has been a while so it was good to collect some light through the scope. My plan for the night was to…

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ZWO ASI294MC Pro Cable Management Bracket

September 18, 2023 by Hersey

This Astronomy 3D Print is a handy cable management bracket which fits on my ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera to keep the cables neat and under control. It also provides some stress relief on the cables which will help prevent damage to the…

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M33 – Triangulum Galaxy – 09/15/2023 and 09/16/2023

September 17, 2023 by Hersey

I am tried something a little different here. I wanted to capture data of Messier 33 over a couple of nights to see what I could come up with. Mostly so I can get some post-processing practice in Siril. I collected 1…

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3D Printing Useful Astronomy Things…

September 11, 2023 by Hersey

I picked up a Ender 3 S1 Pro 3D Printer to tinker with. Just wanted to learn a bit more about 3D printing and see if I could make some useful stuff. Since I received the printer a few days ago it…

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09/03/2023 – 2.5 Hours of The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula

September 4, 2023 by Hersey

During my EAA session on 09/02/2023 I observed the Elephant’s Trunk region of IC 1396, but it was not framed very well. Last night I decided to capture some more data centering on IC 1396A to frame the nebula better and to…

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Last Night’s Moon…

September 3, 2023 by Hersey

Before packing it in last night I took a 100 or so exposures of the Moon just to see what I might be able to do with it. The exposures were 0.000032 seconds which is the shortest exposure Ekos would allow me…

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09/02/2023 – EAA – Nothing but Nebula…

September 3, 2023 by Hersey

Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday weekend. Here in Southeastern Virginia Saturday was a beautiful day which gave way to a nice clear night. I uncovered the scope before dark and took a few sets of dark frames and a quick set…

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