Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
While surfing around checking out astrophotography sites I happened across a great article on building a guide scope from a inexpensive finder scope and decided I would give it a try. I picked up an inexpensive 10x50mm finder scope from an eBay store – Telescope Warehouse – for just over $50 delivered and I picked [...]
For Christmas my wife got me an Orion StarShoot AutoGuider and I am really looking forward to trying it out. The weather Christmas weekend was a no-go for observing but hopefully we will have some clear skies over the New Years holiday. I decided to take some time to set up my laptop for observing. [...]
Tonight is the first night I have been able to try out the T-Connector and T-Ring that attaches my Nikon D60 to my Celestron C8 SCT scope. It was a nice night early on, cold and fairly clear to the East and directly over head. By about 9:00 PM there were some clouds moving in [...]
Just got my Celestron Piggyback Camera mount yesterday evening! Can’t wait to try it out, but it looks like there will be no clear skys this weekend. I have been doing a lot of reading around the ‘net on piggyback astrophotography and I am looking forward to practicing. I have taken some shorter exposures from [...]
I know it has been awhile since I have posted or even since I have been out to do any observing at all. Between weather, work, family, and life in general I have just not had the time to pull the scope out and do any real observing. Besides going out a time or two [...]
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