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Sounds like the Rochester Astronomy Club had a considerable portion of the sky observed that night. But, the stars still have us outnumbered. 🙂
Awesome. Can’t wait to hear about it. It was a beautiful night until fog rolled in at 2:30, which I welcomed or I would have been there even later. The fog basically told me it’s time to go home.
Nice pic. Thank you for sharing. I should have gotten out and tried to get one but I’m just worn down from life. It’s a lot of work to get out there and get it done.
It’s not looking good for tomorrow or Saturday. I’ll wait until tomorrow to call it for Eagle Bluff. Keep an eye out if you’re tracking this event.
I’ve picked up the rings for Dean’s scope—and I managed to get the hair out! A bit of crafty work with a rolled-up paper tube and a shop vac did the trick.
If the skies cooperate for a Glorious Night for Astronomy, I’ll be bringing the scope to the Members’ Dark Sky Night at Eagle Bluff on May 23rd. If we’re clouded out, I’ll bring it to the public observing session at Root River Park on May 24th. And if that’s a wash too… I’ll try again next month.
Here’s to Dean—may he be looking back down at us from out there somewhere, perhaps deep in conversation with Robert Burnham, Jr. discussing every object we target.
Hope to see you all next weekend!
Nicely done. I’ve read up on Siril, not familiar with StarNet++.
Keep’em coming! I’d love to see more.
I agree. Spring Grove Pop anyone?
It will be a GNfA (Glorious Night for Astronomy)!
This one’s for you Dean! Miss you buddy!
Duane
I’m awaiting confirmation that Eagle Bluff is available to the RAC for tomorrow and Saturday.
Tomorrow is not looking good as clouds go, but Saturday is potentially a GNfA (Glorious Night for Astronomy)!
I will post throughout the day as I find out more.
Happy Observing!
Duane
Friday is looking decent before until 1AM. I’m going to be at a retreat (bringing my scope to show a bunch of kids Jupiter) so I won’t be around. But, I wanted to give a heads up that I think the first half of Friday night will be a glorious (half) night for astronomy!
It will also be about 8° out there. If you go out, keep warm!
Duane
Nice one, Bob.
I hope that sungrazer survives its trip around the Sun. If it does we’ll have another comet to focus on before the end of the year.
The comet was barely visible last night. I was wondering if it had faded that much or was it this thing’s fault?
This was a few shots, a couple exposed for the Moon and a couple exposed for the silhouetted land.
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Thanks. I got out last night too. Went west of town to avoid city-glow, but the Moon was in full force. Here’s a few shots I took, although they aren’t as good as previous nights. I do like the one over farmland for its composition. It’s tricky to align land, comet and stars in one photo. All three are out of registration and that means I have to select each of those constituents independently, align them, and bring them back together. It has been an interesting process.
Nice. Keep ’em comin’. :). The last shots I took last night was 8 shots with my iPhone. I stacked those tonight, aligned and stacked them, corrected the horizon, and stretched the image with curves to get this.
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This comet shot is from a mix of exposure times. I was tracking on stars, but registered the comet. I fixed the horizon but did not correct the stars (so they are trailing). Look how long that tail is. The saturation in the sky is the way the camera saw it. I actually desaturated and corrected out some of the blue.. and it’s still rather saturated and blue.
The frames were a mix of exposure times (some more, some less). Mainly because my phone quit controlling my camera at the end of the night so I just clicked away in bulb mode.
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