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 [...]
Mercury and Venus at sunset on April 2, 2010. The two planets were suppose to be even closer together in the sky on Saturday night, but heavy clouds in the west only allowed Venus to shine through. Here is a shot I got of the two on Friday evening at sunset. This photo was taken [...]
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 [...]
Tonight the Crescent Moon and the planet Venus will be very close to each other in the Southwest sky. Hopefully the clouds will hold off. Venus is a crescent now and you can easily make out the crescent through binoculars. I am hoping to get some NexImage Solar System Imager pics of Venus the next [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
..this year anyway. Even though there are a few clouds, still a very nice end of the year view of Venus, the Crescent Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter Have a Happy New Year!!!
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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