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Learning from mistakes with IC 10

August 22, 2019 colin

Excited to play with a new guidescope that I purchased to try to bring more accuracy to my manual tracking,…

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Posted in: Deep Space, Galaxies

Pop the bubble!

August 11, 2019 colin

Another success with my UHC filter, the Bubble nebula turned out terrific! It wasn’t too bad to find, but as…

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Posted in: Deep Space, Nebulae

A pleasant surprise, the Iris

colin

I figured I would take a shot at a large nebula that is much larger than my field of view.…

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Posted in: Deep Space, Nebulae

Spice up your space!

colin

On a mission to do a nearby nebula, I couldn’t help but get M37, the Salt and Pepper Cluster. I’ve…

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Posted in: Clusters, Deep Space

Atmosperic “seeing”

August 10, 2019 colin

One of the biggest challenges of amateur astronomy is the effect called atmospheric seeing. It can be a problem with…

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Posted in: Saturn, Solar System

A cute summertime nebula, the Ring

colin

When I was about to call it a night, I glanced around one more time in Stellarium, and behold, I…

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Posted in: Deep Space, Nebulae

First cluster, the “Ghost Bush”

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Right next to the Fireworks galaxy is the Ghost Bush cluster. Seeing as I hadn’t done a cluster yet, I…

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Posted in: Clusters, Deep Space

Fireworks galaxy

colin

Fitting in with the summertime galaxy theme, after all of the good ones are gone, I settled on the Fireworks…

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Posted in: Deep Space, Galaxies

First shot at Saturn, another challenging planet

colin

I hadn’t had a chance to use the telescope in a little while, but Accuweather said that tonight would be…

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Posted in: Saturn, Solar System

First attempt at a planet

June 4, 2019 colin

Jupiter is starting to come up in the middle of the night, so I decided to give it a try.…

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Posted in: Jupiter, Solar System

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