Month: January 2022

This is the object that got me hooked on astrophotography. Well, sort of. I started a long time ago with a Pentax 35mm film camera and a CG5 mount and tried to take a picture of Cygnus. It was horribly underexposed, but one of the frames had just enough exposure to make out the North …

NGC 7000Read More

This was shortly after (I think) some work to improve the collimation on the Ritchey-Chretien. I don’t know why I didn’t concentrate on a single target, but I jumped around from several last March, so once again I have mediocre data on all. Object M65, M66, NGC 3628 Camera ASI1600MM-Pro, Luminance Only Lens/Scope AstroTech RC6 …

Leo Triplet, Luminance Mosaic TestRead More

And if that title wasn’t enough to pull you in… The seeing in Brooklyn is always bad. I’m on a flight path to LaGuardian. So 3-arcsec is typical. And did I mention I’m in Brooklyn, NY? So the light pollution is always bad. Which make star clusters reasonable targets. Object M36, Open Cluster Camera ASI1600MM-Pro, …

M36 with Marginal Collimation, a Misbehaving Mount, and Poor SeeingRead More