Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
Date: 7/30/2010 Time: 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM EDT Scope: Celestron C8 SGT-XLT Eye Pieces: 33mm SWAN, 22 Panoptic, 13mm Nagler Mount: Celestron Advance Series CG5 GOTO Location: Backyard, Suffolk, VA Weather: Warm, Few high thin clouds Seeing: 6 Transparency: 5 (4 after Moon rise at approx 10:30) Moon: Waning Gibbous Alignment Stars: Arcturus, Antares [...]
For the past few months I have been getting things together for a side by side imaging set up. The Celestron 8″ SCT with the AT66 piggybacked works pretty decent but it is really pushing the weight limit of the CG5 mount. I picked up a new to me Celestron C6-SGT (XLT) OTA a few [...]
I ran across this http://www.astronomylog.co.uk/2009/08/20/satellite-tracker/ over at Astronomy Log. Have not had a chance to check it out yet, looks like it was designed for a Meade scope but there are options to set it up for a Celestron. Will let you know when I get a chance to try it out.
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 [...]
Just a couple of articles on polar alignment of an equatorial mounted scope for future reference: From Celestron’s Knowledge Base: Rough Polar Alignment Accurate Polar Alignment — From Sky and Telescope – DIY Accurate Polar Alignment Sky and Telescope also has a bunch of other great Astronomy DIY articles. — Observatorio ARVAL – Polar Alignment [...]
Took several one minute 5 frames/second images of Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon earlier tonight. With my C8S-GT scope using the NexImage and the Celestron UV/IR Filter. Just did a quick process of one of the Jupiter images with RegiStax 4 and here is what I ended up with. Not too bad. I was out [...]
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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