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NGC 457 – The Owl Cluster
Very cold, very clear, and a very bright 80% waxing Moon high in the sky. Didn’t want to fight the Moon with any long exposure light gathering so I decided to do a bit of EAA observing with the SeeStar S50 to…
A cold and clear night. Temperatures in the low 40’s which is the coolest yet this fall. EAA is great cause my office was nice and toasty :). I had a plan to capture a few of the objects on the CloudyNights’…
Saturday night was a nice clear night. In the mid-40s when I started out, but temperatures fell to near freezing during the session. The Moon was near full, VERY bright, and right up in the middle of the sky. So that was…
A nice clear night. It started out kind of warm in the mid-to-low 60’s, but the temperature dropped into the upper 40’s quickly after dark. A great night to work through some of the objects on the CloudyNight’s October 2022 EAA Observing…
A nice cool, in the mid-60s, and clear night. A bit hazy, but not too bad overall. My plan for this session was to revisit some of the objects on the CloudyNight’s September 2022 EAA Observing Challenge list and to see what…
Finally after more than a month we had a clear night sky on Friday. It was warm and humid but clear. The Moon was about half full in the Southwest sky. In the late afternoon I uncovered the scope and connected the…
We got a fair bit of snow, especially for here, but the storm is gone and the sky is clear. I set the gear back up on the driveway for some EAA. It was cold, 21 F, after dark. When I set…