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Hey Mike, thanks for sharing the eclipse photos. I was only counting 3 groups of sunspots in that first photo. I was about to check my scribbles, but the second photo confirms (and numbers) the five sunspot groupings I thought I eventually noted.

Who took photos of the group at the eclipse event? I thought I saw two different people snap a photo…[Read more]

Just wanted to share an image from yesterday’s eclipse! Most of the photos turned out really blurry. Really tough to focus when it’s mostly cloudy, but I’m pretty happy with what I got.

To Bill Davidson above! Yes Bill I would be honored to have you publish the pictures. Details for the Crab Nebula are as follows:
Scope: Astro-Tech 80 mm ED refractor (AT80ED)
Mount: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi
Camera: ZWO ASI183MC color astronomy camera
Exposure: Live stack of 137, 5 second frames (11.4 minutes)
Processing: Dark frame…[Read more]

Nice! It even has night sounds. Minus the bright flash of night, and the short duration, it might be as good as the 8 hour streaming video on Amazon Prime. 😛

That must have landed quite a bit south of us. The video looks very similar to mine, only the tree to my south blocked a bit more of it.

Bob: Can I publish your photos with descriptions in the newsletter?

The same photo with a dark frame subtraction and Photoshop Elements processing is shown below.

Of course I had to take a look and photo of the magnificent Orion Nebula M 42 that was rising early am of Oct 10. The photo also taken with the ASI 183MC camera was 58 frames of 5 seconds each stacked and saved as FITS file.

In the early morning of October 10th I finally observed and photographed M1 the Crab Nebula with my 80mm refractor. The photo below was taken with the ASI 183MC camera; 137, 5 second frames were stacked.

yes, they will be able to see a good chunk bit out of the sun with the solar filter or solar glasses.
jim

There are still a of artifacts in my pictures. I wonder if Mike C might comment on processing a FITS image file. When I try to do deep sky stacking of Light and Dark files I get an error message in ASI studio that it can only process one channel when I input the FITS color image file taken with the ASI color camera?! Also I couldn’t get DSS…[Read more]

The November Sky and Telescope issue features M33 a galaxy in Triangulum. Presently it is high in the eastern sky around midnight and its large size and galactic detail provides a good target for small telescopic astrophotography. Below is an image I obtained on 9-13 with AT 80ED mm refractor and ZWO 183M camera. 400 5sec frames were live…[Read more]

Wow, that’s amazing! I managed to get that on my camera too. Mine camera is facing directly south, near Chester Woods park.

Okay. At least one good thing from taking Roku security camera out of box, doing setup, and putting up with annoying alerts/notifications.

This morning at about 4:45 AM I was able to see comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura from Root River Park by binocular 10×50. Comet was left from M44. See Stellarium.

The night of 8-15 was pretty good for observing and with the moon absent good for some astrophotography. I obtained a fairly good image of M17 the Omega Nebula in Sagittarius. I rotated the image below to approximate the orientation of many images online. At the eyepiece M17 was fairly easy to see at low power as a tilted, whitish rectangular…[Read more]

The bright core of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) with hints of its spiral disc appears in this live stacked image below. The dwarf satellite galaxy M32 is at the upper right. All foreground stars are from our galaxy, the Milky Way. Photo taken with an 80mm refractor on July 21, 151/5 sec. stacked frames using the ASI 183MC camera.