Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
Date: 7/18/2010 Time: 8:30 PM – 9:45 PM EDT Scope: Stellarvue SV80BV FL: 750mm Eye Pieces: 13mm Nagler, 9mm Nagler, 7mm Nagler, 4mm Radian Mount: Stellarvue M1 Grab and Go Alt-azimuth Location: Backyard, Suffolk, VA Weather: Warm, low thin clouds, windy, cumulonimbus clouds and lightning to the northeast Seeing: 4 Transparency: 4 Moon: 1st Quarter [...]
Date: 7/9/2010 Time: 9:15 PM – 11:00 PM EDT Scope: Stellarvue SV80BV FL: 750mm Eye Pieces: 22mm Panoptic, 9mm Nagler, 7mm Nagler Mount: Stellarvue M1 Grab and Go Alt-azimuth Location:Backyard, Suffolk, VA Weather: Warm and cloudy. Moon: None It was pretty warm and mostly cloudy. A few breaks in the clouds as they passed allowed [...]
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: 7/1/2010 Time: 9:15 PM – 11:00 PM EDT Scope: Celestron C6-SGT and Astro-Tech AT66 Eye Pieces: 22mm Panoptic, 9mm Nagler, 7mm Nagler, 4mm Radian Weather: Cool and clear Moon: None Alignment Stars: Arcturus and Spica Calibration Stars: Antares, Deneb, and Altair My observation plan was to observe a few globular clusters. I was looking [...]
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 [...]
I have had my Side-by-Side Celestron 6″ and Astro-Tech 66m set up a couple of times over the last week or so hoping that the skies would clear. Finally last night – cooler temperatures and fairly low humidity – except for a few passing clouds it was nearly perfect visual observing. I spent sometime using [...]
Saturn is too bright to image prime focus with my DSLR and get any detail, but I am able to get images of the moons. In this image five of Saturn’s moons are visible (from left to right) lapetus, Titan, Dion, Tethys, and Rhea.
Pretty warm out but the sky was very clear. First time in several weeks that time and the weather allowed for some stargazing. Also the first time I have been out this year where I did not need a jacket. Biggest problem with the warmer weather is the bugs and there were plenty of them [...]
I took this picture on the 24th around 10:00 PM. It’s a wide field shot piggy back mounted on my scope – 50mm at f/3 for 1 minute. Saturn is the very bright object down and left of center and comet Lulin is up and to the right.
The nights plan was to take some images of Saturn with my Celestron NexImage imager. It was cold and a little windy, there was also a lot of light pollution – the neighbors’ security lights stayed on the whole time I was out. I started observing just before 10:00 PM and Saturn was already high [...]
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