Hersey – Page 16 – The Suffolk Sky

The Astroshed – Everything has a place… A place for everything…

December 12, 2022 by Hersey

No not an observatory… I wish. This is not really an astronomy post, but it was a neat project and the purpose of it is to support the hobby, so I figured I would share it. I have accumulated a lot of…

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Five Pieces of Gear You Should Have in Your Astronomy Kit

November 22, 2022 by Hersey

If you are into amateur visual astronomy, astrophotography, or EAA you likely have a telescope, a mount, finder scopes, cameras or eyepieces, and a plethora of other astronomy gear dedicated to observing. There are a number of other things you should look…

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Learning KStars/Ekos – Automating EAA Captures with the Ekos Scheduler

November 5, 2022 by Hersey

The Ekos Scheduler is primarily used for scheduling an automated Astrophotography session, but it can also help automate captures for EAA. This way you can spend less time setting up, or re-setting up, captures and more time observing and enjoying your live…

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11/01/2022 – EAA – New ZWO Duo-Band Filter in the ZWO Filter Drawer

November 2, 2022 by Hersey

The ZWO Filter Drawer and the ZWO Duo-Band Narrowband Filter I ordered last week were delivered on Monday. Last night the forecast looked promising, so I decided to set up to give the drawer and filter a quick test on NGC 281…

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10/24/2022 – EAA – Just a Quick Look

October 25, 2022 by Hersey

After a cloudy start to the day the sky cleared up after 3 PM. The scope was still set up so I decided to take advantage of the clear sky and have a quick look around. It was warm, in the lower…

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10/21/2022 – EAA – CN Challenge Objects and Some Just for Fun

October 22, 2022 by Hersey

A nice clear night. It started out kind of warm in the mid-to-low 60’s, but the temperature dropped into the upper 40’s quickly after dark. A great night to work through some of the objects on the CloudyNight’s October 2022 EAA Observing…

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10/20/2022 – EAF and Guide Scope Prep for Some Weekend EAA

October 21, 2022 by Hersey

Last night I set up the gear and got things ready for the clear skies we are expecting this weekend. I wanted to test out the ZWO Electronic Automatic Focuser (EAF) focusing on the main scope using the Autofocus routine in the…

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Learning KStars/Ekos – Creating Darks with KStars/Ekos and SharpCap

September 28, 2022 by Hersey

Dark frames, dark calibration frames, or simply darks are used to compensate for hot pixels, thermal noise, amp glow, and other camera sensor noise artifacts in images, especially in longer exposure images. Most EAA software can apply darks during a live stack…

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Setting Up the ZWO EAF on the SVBONY SV503

September 21, 2022 by Hersey

Even though I have my gear set up to remotely operate the mount and cameras using Ekos/INDI there are several times during a EAA observing session where I am required to take a trip out to the scope. Whenever I need to…

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Post Processing a Couple EAA Images

September 19, 2022 by Hersey

Electronically Assisted Astronomy, or EAA, is a method of observing where the telescope eyepiece is replaced with a camera. Images of an object are captured and then live stacked to be viewed in real time. This is a bit different from Astrophotography…

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