There was a little bit of “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” last night at the DHO, but it was much drier, so no constant use of the hair dryer to keep everything from getting soaked. Overall, the seeing went from baleful red Saturn and Jupiter, to fair conditions as the smoke cleared somewhat. I started with something nearly straight overhead to help reduce the effects of the smoke and started over with M13 so I could change the composition to include the galaxy NCG 6207 (bottom left in the picture). That means you also have to include the bright red […]
Monthly Archives: August 2021
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*** SAS Members *** Our observing session scheduled for tonight (Friday, 8/27) is on! Come and join us at Darling Hill Observatory off of Route 81 south (Exit 14). All are welcome!Please dress warmly. Long pants, a long sleeve T-shirt and a jacket or sweater is recommended. Bug spray and a bag chair are also helpful. Oh.. and please don’t forget a mask!
Here is last year’s pic with the M13 taken with a 10″ Meade SCT. Exposure was 22 frames at 60 second. It was probably one of the best pictures I got from the Meade. Because of being able to guide with the 5″ Mak, I was able to get ten 300 second subs to stack (for a total of 50 minutes instead of just 22 minutes). Here is the result. The magnification of the second image is only about 60% of the older picture, but better focus and guiding give a much higher resolution end product. Funny how a 5″ […]
August 4th-5th, 2021. A warm, dry, windless, mostly clear night in Dewitt, NY. Saturn is at opposition with Jupiter not far behind. My driveway suffers with Bortle 9, and seeing was meh, but no dew, yay! Once again, Sharpcap did it’s magic with deft and aplomb. I tested 4 different settings in an effort to increase the frames/second during movies of the gas giants. The best ones are below. The one of Jupiter was shot at nearly 80fps and wow, what a difference in clarity and color of the GRS and moons. This is also my first attempt at using […]