2022-12-04 Mars 10" f/5.6 Newtonian, eyepiece projection using 15mm eyepiece. Stack of 20% of ~ 5200 video frames (3 minutes). Video for this i...

What? How are you pronouncing it? : ) Ha ha ha ha......

This is a test post. It used to be when someone posted a reply to a topic the autogenerated email included a link directly to that post. Since Scott...

Wow, looks at all those dust clouds. And with only an hour's worth of exposure. The effective f/ratio of 3.44 helps but not a lot. Must have been a...

Nice. You can now say you have imaged Uranus.

Yes, I too am surprised you got such good results last night. I didn't even bother trying it was so bad down here. And big improvement on 2nd proces...

Mars, 11/22/2022, 9:45 PM ESTNote the time of this image of Mars above. Mars is high enough now mid-evening to get some good views and images.10" f/5...

Thanks. The last time (the only other time) I imaged them was in November 2008. I took about 100 still shots (used about 70 each planet) at that time...

11-20-2022 The seeing was predicted to be bad tonight. It was not great, but it was OK as evidenced by this image of Mars. Mars size 16.9", almost a...

Thanks Greg and Terri. I should have tried my 8" f/6 Newtion and compared the view to my 12.5" f/4.5 but it was in the car and I didn't want to take ...

Hadley Rille and Apollo 15 landing site2022-11-15, 2:52 AM ESTMiddlebury, VT I was out Thursday evening 11/14/2020 and Friday morning 11/15/2022. Th...

Hi Mark, I'm not sure but the feature may be what's called a festoon, not that that actually tells you much. Gary Nowak is the planetary observing e...

Hi Terri, Yes, nice shot. Always fun to test out new "toys". Just wait until you get a new house (assuming that's still the plan) and can put in so...

Hi Greg, nice. Good to see you saw and imaged it. I tried to include the Pleiades in the with my 75-300mm zoom but couldn't get them in at 75mm. My...

Mars 2022-11-03, 3:01 AM EDT The same morning I imaged Mars and it's moons I imaged the planet itself. The seeing was very good. My best views were...