Macastronomer

It’s looking good for Wednesday night. I’m thinking about taking Thursday morning off so I can stay up late and observe.

Anybody care to join me at Root River Park… or somewhere else?

Duane

PS. I’m going to start a new thread and place this there too. 175 pages of posts is probably enough.

Thanks for the news from Gameheaven and the sun pic.

I went out last night to image T Cor Bor, and I took a shot of the Milky Way while I had the setup aligned. When I want to get out from under the bright part of the Rochester Dome I head to 23 St. NE. It’s little dead-end road off of county rd 11.  The sky is faded to the East and straight…[Read more]

If you want a crazy bright laser… the one that I bought on Amazon that disappeared was listed as this:

UNBIU Long Range Laser Pointer High Power – Green Laser Pointer Flashlight with Adjustable Focus for Night Astronomy, Outdoor Camping, Hunting, and Hiking – USB Charging

It was only $13. But like I said, I basically treat it like a gun. I…[Read more]

I posted to this thread yesterday, and my comment is not here today. This site is very frustrating. I’ll do it over again.

My favorite pointer is:

https://www.opticsplanet.com/z-bolt-military-pride-green-laser-briefing-pointer.html

I don’t know if you can get it as a non-military pride version or not.

What I like about it is that it has a…[Read more]

Of course this still requires two logos, one for dark on light and one for light on dark.

Great info. I always thought it was an 11 year cycle but that must be short of what’s happening now.

Josef, thanks for the spell check. I’ve been saying it wrong for years.

And thanks for turning out the light.

Check this out. I got a Cricut for my daughter and I decided to print out a tribute to Dean for my scope. Just added this…[Read more]

Also, Joseph spotted this… Corpuscular rays shooting upward!

Ooooo….   What scope and mount did you get? Do tell!

I’m thinking the same thing… I want the rig I want and it’s taking forever to get it; but eventually I’ll get there. I keep seeing cheaper compromising equipment for less and I keep ignoring it, but it’s so tempting.

Equipment I need to get to finish my setup: Astro-Camera (preferably the…[Read more]

Here’s the Milky Way shot I took last night:

That is one big sun spot! I think we’re now past the active part of the sun’s cycle and it’s supposed to be gradually calming down. That seems to be taking a while.

 

Thanks for posting. Looking up it was pretty good. I could see all the stars in the Little Dipper and a lot more within that I normally can’t see. But that was looking most upward. Looking at the northern horizon was hazy (see pic).

Looking east and west, all but the brightest stars disappeared.

Great sky while looking upward, but the lower you…[Read more]

The Blaze Star is probably going to saturate on my camera… I’m going to keep working it out and see if I can figure out how to get the whole light curve. I don’t think my camera can get the whole 8 magnitudes in the same exposure setting. It will be interesting. I’m glad it hasn’t blown yet.

Answer to Question.

Love it! We should start a new thread to share images. Seeing what everybody is doing is wonderful—and inspiring! Keep ’em comin’!