Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
Date: 7/2/2010 Time: 8:30 PM – 11:45 PM EDT Scope: Stellarvue SV80BV FL: 750mm Eye Pieces: 22mm Panoptic, 9mm Nagler Mount: Stellarvue M1 Grab and Go Alt-azimuth Location: Northwest River Park, Chesapeake, VA Weather: Cool and clear, a little humidity. A few passing clouds after 11:00 PM. Moon: None The Back Bay Amateur Astronomy club [...]
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 [...]
Spent a couple hours out on Thanksgiving Eve. It was cold, really cold. It was also very clear. My plan for the night was to practice getting a good polar alignment and then check out a few deep sky Messier objects. I was able to get the scope aligned on Polaris fairly quickly, then I [...]
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