Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
Just a few pictures from tonight. The moon was bright and clouds started to roll in a little after 10 PM. My plan tonight was to take a series of images of M31 to stack them and I was able to do that. View the full size image and you can see some of the [...]
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 [...]
Here are a couple of pictures of the Cresent Moon I took early in the evening on 11/01/08. I think they would have been better if it had been a bit darker and the moon had been a bit higher in the sky. It set out of view pretty quickly so I had to try [...]
A couple of quick pictures of the Cresent Moon and Venus tonight from the backyard. The Moon is beautiful. Venus is more to the Southwest and higher in the sky tonight.
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 [...]
Because of the amount of clouds yesterday afternoon I did not feel like pulling out my big scope just to be disappointed by another cloudy evening so I just hung out on the deck with the binoculars from about 9:00 PM to 10:20 PM.
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