Exploring the Suffolk Virginia Night Sky – Astronomy, Astrophotography, Telescopes, EAA – Planets and Stars and Nebula and Galaxies – Looking, Learning, Sharing… Let's see what we can see…
Finally 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…
I volunteered to create the September 2022 EAA Monthly Observing Challenge list for the CloudyNight’s EAA Forum. Each month a member of the forum creates a list of objects to be observed via Electronic Assisted Astronomy (EAA). The monthly EAA challenge list…
Still have not had a good clear sky this month 🙁 Over the last week the temperatures have been a bit cooler and the nights are getting a bit longer, but the clouds, and recently the full moon, have been keeping the…
I decided to replace the lens on the All Sky Camera with a Fisheye lens to try to get a bit more of the sky. I picked up an inexpensive 1.7mm F/2 fisheye lens for the All Sky Camera. The lens is…
It 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…
It has been a while since I have been able to get out with the scope. It looked like it might clear last night, but that was not the case. I set up the SV503 102ED scope, got everything cabled up, and…
Last night the sky was mostly clear. It was also a bit cooler than it has been in the last couple weeks, once the Sun went down it cooled to the low 70s pretty quick and was in the mid-60s when I…
I have made a lot of notes in my logs around spacing when using Focal Reducers with my SV305 and ZWO ASI294MC Pro cameras for EAA. This post is just to document I how set up the spacing for the focal reducers…
I 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…
My INDI All Sky Camera Project has been up and running for over a month now. I finally got around to building a home for the all sky camera to get it out of the center of the driveway. Just a simple…