I decided to finally try manually tracking the ISS with my Dobsonian scope. I used my ASI183MC and a 2x Barlow, aligned the spotting scope, and waited for it to come over the trees around 10:28PM. That thing is moving! It orbits the Earth with a velocity of 17,500 miles… Continue Reading... "International Space Station"
Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!? Yes! This is a timelapse captured from my allsky camera on May 10/11. The real show was right after dusk, and it faded as the night went… Continue Reading... "Aurora Borealis"
I finally got to see an astronomical event! The clouds tried, but I was able to see the entire eclipse. I used the big scope to take a timelapse of it, with an exposure every ten seconds. Continue Reading... "Solar Eclipse"
Fighter of the Night Moon. Continue Reading... "Day Moon"
I was going to check out my allsky camera yesterday and found it unresponsive. Turns out the SD card didn’t weather the last half year too well. I was able to recover the config files and start fresh with a new SD card and updated software. Everything mostly seemed to… Continue Reading... "22° Moon halo"
After finishing two long imaging projects, a 60% moon made a good night to do some minor planet hunting. 3 Juno is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt. It is about the size of Indiana, and weighs as much 3,300 Mount Everests. It was pretty low in the sky… Continue Reading... "3 Juno"
I was browsing through the archives of my allsky camera and noticed something strange in one of the star trails images, Airplanes are the dotted lines throughout the image, and satellites are the very thin solid lines. The wide object in the upper right is Saturn. The very wide and… Continue Reading... "Bright meteor spotted"
