Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
Date: 8/28/2010 Time: 9:45 PM – 12:00 AM EDT Scope: Stellarvue 80BV Mount: Celestron Advance CG5 GOTO Eyepieces: 16mm Nagler, 7mm Nagler, 4mm Radian Location: Backyard, Suffolk, VA Weather: Warm, clear, humid. Transparency: 4 Seeing: 6/7 Moon: Bright Waning Gibbous Alignment Stars: Arcturus, Vega Calibration Stars: Caph, Deneb I knew the moon was going to [...]
Date: 6/19/2010 Time: 2:00 AM – Sunrise (approx. 5:30 AM) EDT Scope: Celestron C6-SGT and Astro-Tech AT66 Eye Pieces: 22mm Panoptic, 9mm Nagler, 25mm Plossl, 32mm Plossl Weather: 66 deg F, Humid, Few clouds early in the session then clear. Moon: None Alignment Stars: Arcturus and Vega Calibration Star: Enif From my observing notes: I [...]
Friday night, July 24, 2009 was the first clear night we have had in a good while that I was able to get the scope set up. It was a clear night, but very hot and VERY humid. I was out from about 10 to midnight and I took a few images of Jupiter using [...]
..this year anyway. Even though there are a few clouds, still a very nice end of the year view of Venus, the Crescent Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter Have a Happy New Year!!!
It has been a while. Just a lot going on with the holidays and when I have had time to breath the sky has not been clear. Even though things are kind of busy tonight I did get a few minutes to try out my Christmas presents a Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens and a [...]
Here are a couple of pictures of last nights conjunction just after dark. These were taken shortly before 6:00 PM. Just after 6:00 the clouds started to roll in. It was really a cool site to see. I hope you were able to get out and see it.
These images were taken just after 4:00 PM. I did not realize it, but Jupiter is visible in these pics, I could not see it at the time I took the pictures. Look carefully in the upper right corner of the full size pictures and you should be able make out Jupiter, even if it [...]
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter came together tonight to form a close triangle in the southern sky just before sunset. All three were visible through binoculars well before the sun set. I was able to capture the three just after 4:00 PM EST. I actually took over 180 pictures between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. These [...]
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 [...]
Well the weather did clear up a bit for Saturday night. It was warm and humid with just a few clouds. The nearly full moon did not allow any deep sky looking but I did get a chance to check out the moon and Jupiter. I am still learning to use the equatorial mount on [...]
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