10/24/2022 – EAA – Just a Quick Look
October 25, 2022After 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…
Category: Galaxies
10/21/2022 – EAA – CN Challenge Objects and Some Just for Fun
October 22, 2022A 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…
10/20/2022 – EAF and Guide Scope Prep for Some Weekend EAA
October 21, 2022Last 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…
Post Processing a Couple EAA Images
September 19, 2022Electronically 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…
09/17/2022 – EAA – Messiers and More!
September 18, 2022Another nice clear night, pretty much the same as last night. Observed a few more Messiers for the log and a couple of other interesting objects while I was just looking around. Earlier in the month I had a lot of issues…
09/16/2022 – EAA – A Great Night Looking Around Cassiopeia
September 17, 2022A nice cool, in the mid-60s, and clear night. A bit hazy, but not too bad overall. My plan for this session was to revisit some of the objects on the CloudyNight’s September 2022 EAA Observing Challenge list and to see what…
09/02/2022 – Observing Session – Finally a clear sky!
September 4, 2022Finally after more than a month we had a clear night sky on Friday. It was warm and humid but clear. The Moon was about half full in the Southwest sky. In the late afternoon I uncovered the scope and connected the…
EAA – 07/23/2022 – Nebulas, Clusters, and a Famous Galaxy Quintet
July 24, 2022It has been a while since I have been able to get out and observe. Mostly due to no clear weekend nights. It was hot with high thin clouds most of the day on 07/23/2022 but the sky mostly cleared after 8:30…
EAA – 06/04/2022 – CN June 2022 Observing Challenge…
June 5, 2022I uncovered the scope in the late afternoon and hoped for the sky to clear, it mostly did. Mostly clear night, a few high thin clouds moving quickly across the sky, temperatures in the lower 70s. My plan was to hunt for…
EAA – 05/29/2022 – A Few More Messiers…
May 30, 2022Another warm, clear night. Temperatures were in the mid to lower 70’s and it was a little less humid than the night before. My plan was to try to pick up a few more of the Messiers over in the area of…