10/24/2022 – EAA – Just a Quick Look
October 25, 2022After a cloudy start to the day the sky cleared up after 3 PM. The scope was still set up so I decided to take advantage of the clear sky and have a quick look around. It was warm, in the lower…
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ZWO ASI294MC Pro – Color Deep Space Camera – Cooled
10/21/2022 – EAA – CN Challenge Objects and Some Just for Fun
October 22, 2022A 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…
Learning KStars/Ekos – Creating Darks with KStars/Ekos and SharpCap
September 28, 2022Dark frames, dark calibration frames, or simply darks are used to compensate for hot pixels, thermal noise, amp glow, and other camera sensor noise artifacts in images, especially in longer exposure images. Most EAA software can apply darks during a live stack…
09/17/2022 – EAA – Messiers and More!
September 18, 2022Another nice clear night, pretty much the same as last night. Observed a few more Messiers for the log and a couple of other interesting objects while I was just looking around. Earlier in the month I had a lot of issues…
09/16/2022 – EAA – A Great Night Looking Around Cassiopeia
September 17, 2022A 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…
09/02/2022 – Observing Session – Finally a clear sky!
September 4, 2022Finally 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…
EAA – 07/23/2022 – Nebulas, Clusters, and a Famous Galaxy Quintet
July 24, 2022It has been a while since I have been able to get out and observe. Mostly due to no clear weekend nights. It was hot with high thin clouds most of the day on 07/23/2022 but the sky mostly cleared after 8:30…
07/03/2022 – EAA – Clouds
July 4, 2022It has been a while since I have been able to get out with the scope. It looked like it might clear last night, but that was not the case. I set up the SV503 102ED scope, got everything cabled up, and…
EAA – 06/18/2022 – Some Nebula in Cygnus and a few other things…
June 19, 2022Last night the sky was mostly clear. It was also a bit cooler than it has been in the last couple weeks, once the Sun went down it cooled to the low 70s pretty quick and was in the mid-60s when I…
Focal Reducer to Camera Spacing
June 9, 2022I have made a lot of notes in my logs around spacing when using Focal Reducers with my SV305 and ZWO ASI294MC Pro cameras for EAA. This post is just to document I how set up the spacing for the focal reducers…