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Year: 2019
Mercury is Tiny!
This first photo is from 7:44 AM EST, shortly after the transit started. I saw both of the Venus transits (well, the second one was mostly clouded out, but that’s another story). Mercury is so much smaller. With Venus a filtered pair of binoculars at a mere 10X was enough to pick out Venus. I …
Mercury Transit Lessons Learned
The transit is in progress, I’m taking images, it’s actually all working, so what lessons? I usually do night time long exposure imaging. This is different. Set up before daybreak so you can polar align. Did that, check. Just like night time except you’re racing the sunrise. Turn the screen brightness on high for the …
Prelimary processing for M27 Image
Finally took a few minutes to do something with the images I took during the Summer Star Party. This is an LRGB composite of a single frame of each color for M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. We’re talking only about 2 minutes (or less!) exposure per color here. I need to take the time to combine …
I Should Learn to Sketch
Another night sitting for 30-40 minutes watching Saturn. The moons have moved around a bit, and this time I could see both Tethys (mag 10.9) and Dione (mag 11.1) as well as Titan (mag 9.1) and Rhea (mag 10.3). Seeing was as bad as usual . I mostly used my 6 mm Televue Radian eyepiece, …
Observing Saturn
I never seem to have enough time to get out and observe, much less image, but since the Summer Star Party, I’ve been trying to get out at least once a week even if only for a short period. This usually involves sitting the Dob out in the back alley, then taking a long walk …