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digital rebel but not having a real solid basis for focusing. camera is too old for nebulosity and dslr focus i can't get to work heh
Sure not much activity here lately. I was at the farm Sat night and it was nice and clear.
As usual, my telescope was in Rochester [have a very hard time negotiating where myself,
my wife, my dogs, and my telescope will be] but i was touring the skies w/ my binocs. It
was cool to see Scorpio rising around midnight. Summer is nigh!Nice evening and I have Wednesdays off so I'm heading to Keller in about
an hour. (After the Celtics/Heat game 😉
jimThanks to Luka and Kirk for coming out! Had a nice time looking at
numerous objects esp the faint fuzzies in Virgo 😉 Hopefully, Friday
night will be clear as well but the forecast isnt favorable…Hello astronomy fans, I got out for four and a half hours tonight. Back on the Herschel hunt. I recorded eleven of them before MY VAN started clicking because my battery was going dead! You know me, I like to listen to classical music when I observe.
Up until then, wow!, what a night. I had my Lunar II list with me, now, then, but while I had three potential targets, they do not become illuminated until Friday night which apparently doesn't look so good.
Saturn was spectacular! Three of the "amateur moons" just above and trailing down to the side of the ring in a nice little arc, plus Titan 3 planet widths off to the east and I suspect Iapetus was two more widths beyond that. With sharp rings and a fine Cassini's Division, it is easy to keep the boys down on the farm.
I took Jay McLaren's advice on the Coma-Virgo group of galaxies and previewed my targets. I finished the two groups in Coma Berenices very easily that way and didn't waste time jumping from one constellation to another. The best I saw tonight were NGC 4414, 4448,4293 and 4394. All these are really worth a look.
I don't know what I liked better tonight, stargazing or not having to walk home. After my battery started clicking I shut everything off, packed up, jumped in, said a prayer and fired it up to go home. Thank you Lord for both!
I didn't see it, but it could be a halo, glory, a sundog(parhehia), a circumzenithal arc, or any number of other weather phenomena. Was it about 22 degrees away? Or 46 degrees maybe?
I remember those rings around the sun. I actually saw two, but I could only see the wider second one when I had my sunglasses on. 🙂 It was quite interesting.
Your sunglasses were probably polarized, and the light might've been too. Very interesting observation Brandon!
What's the prognosis for Friday or Saturday night at Eagle Bluff (or at Keller as a backup)?
From what I can tell Friday looks IFFY. Saturday night the better of the two.
Despite the look of the CSC, the sky is not looking so great right now for astronomy. I'm most likely not going anywhere, but will post should the situation change.
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