Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
The Lunar Eclipse on December 21, 2010 was one of those once in a lifetime events that if you had the opportunity you should have taken it in order to see a total lunar eclipse on the day that is also the solstice. The eclipse was visible to pretty much all of North America (as [...]
Date: 6/19/2010 Time: 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM EDT Scope: Celestron C6-SGT and Astro-Tech AT66 Eye Pieces: 22mm Panoptic, 9mm Nagler, 25mm Plossl, 32mm Plossl Weather: Warm, Humid, Few Passing Clouds, Breezy, Bright patio lights from neighbors Moon: 1st Quarter Alignment Stars: Spica and Arcturus Calibration Stars: Vega and Antares Did not really plan out [...]
Looked like the sky might actually clear some to get a look at Mars as it is the closest to Earth that it will be until again in 2014 – only 99 million kilometers away! It was fairly clear, with just a few passing clouds, and very cool. The seeing was not so good, there [...]
The rain had FINALLY stopped and the clouds cleared. First really nice clear night in over a week. The sky was clear and the moon was bright. Did a little looking around at M81, M82, M3, and M53 but the brightness of the moon really washed them out. Took a good look at Saturn, probably [...]
Cool little FireFox add-on that displays the Sun rise and set times, moon phases, and moon rise and set times. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1915 Can be configured for your locale, and set to display just about anywhere on the browser. Mouseover it and it displays the info. Pretty neat.
Very cloudy and this is the best I could get of the Cresent Moon Venus Conjunction on Friday, February 27. Took this quick picture at 6:18 PM using my 105mm Sigma 1/60 second at f/2.8 The clouds rolled in Friday afternoon and it stayed cloudy all weekend. It was a great weekend to just do [...]
Scope: NexStar 60 SLT Refractor Eyepieces: 32mm Plossl, 20mm Plossl, 15mm Plossl Date Time: 1/12/2009 6:45 – 8:00 PM Objects: M31, M33, Venus, M43 Tonight was just a quick look. The weather was calling for a mostly clear sky and I just wanted to take advantage of it, even if it was only for a [...]
One of the things I am going to try to do better this year is document or log my observations. I have a nice log book, but I am not sure that I like the format. I would prefer to just write some free form notes. I will probably come up with some kind of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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