Sky and Rockets

Not much happening in my astrophotography endeavors, other than I'm busy processing the data I captured from the 5 straight nights of cl...

In just a few weeks, October 13, 2020,  Mars will be the closest to earth since July 27, 2018. And, it won't be closer until 2035!  Back...

In my previous post on the  The Magic of Image Processing - Part 1 , I discussed the capturing of the data and the initial calibration and s...

Arecibo Observatory Damaged A broken cable caused severe damage at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, causing a suspension of operations...

One of the issues with the EdgeHD telescopes (actually, most SCTs) is that they are notoriously difficult to focus especially when trying to...

Cloudy skies - oh well.  While I'm waiting to get back to imaging I decided to create a short video of what my steps are in setting up f...

I setup for imaging NEOWISE from my home site on July 26 and the 27th.  Placed my Canon50D piggyback on the GT102 with my Canon 100mm lens. ...

Finally, NEOWISE is high enough that I can capture it from my home with the large telescope mount.  The sky wasn't very good though, lot...

Well, I took another shot at getting a better image.  Processed the 22 x 30sec images taken around 9:45PM.  Since there were more subs the n...

On July 18, 2020, the skies were rather clear and I decided to return to my church's property with my portable telescope setup (William ...

On July 15th I arrived at CrossLife Bible Church, Westminster MD, my home church, for our normal prayer group meeting at 6:30 PM.  The servi...