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DSLR attached to ETX90. LiveView image of 2015 partial eclipse on Canon 40D

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 I try to log my observing and related activities in a regular blog - sometimes there will be a delay but I usually catch up. An index of all my blogs is on the main menu at the top of the page with daily, weekly or monthly views. My Twitter feed is below. I am also interested in photograping wildlife when I can and there is a menu option above to look at some of my images. I try to keep the news feeds from relevant astronomical sources up to date and you will need to scroll down to find these.

The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Sunday
May282023

C101

DateSunday, May 28, 2023 at 12:42PM

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Thursday
Sep152022

NGC 4595 T68

DateThursday, September 15, 2022 at 8:53AM

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Thursday
Jul072022

M20 enlarged from M8 image

DateThursday, July 7, 2022 at 12:58PM

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Thursday
Jul072022

M8 image processed in Photoshop

DateThursday, July 7, 2022 at 12:29PM

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Thursday
Jul072022

Chile Telescope LRGB Image 4 x 120seconds processed in Nebulosity

DateThursday, July 7, 2022 at 11:16AM

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Thursday
Jul072022

First Test Image from Chile Messier 8

DateThursday, July 7, 2022 at 6:22AM

The sky in Chile is amazing. This is my first wide angle test image from Chile using a 135mm lens. It is a 120 second exposure Luminance filter only.

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Wednesday
Jun152022

Lunar Perigee

DateWednesday, June 15, 2022 at 2:43PM

Following yesterdays full moon it is at its closest to earth today. It has a phase of 98.11% and lies at a distance of 357,779.10 km. It is in the constellation of Saggitarius. It rises at 22:04 (BST) and sets at 06:22 tomorrow morning. It transits the meridian at 01:42. It has an apparent angular diameter of just over 33 minutes of arc. The Moon is also at Aphelion, at its furthest point from the Sun

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Thursday
Oct012020

Albox Observatory

DateThursday, October 1, 2020 at 8:07PM

Albox Observatory is located at my villa in southern Spain.

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Monday
Sep212020

Monochrome Messier 45

DateMonday, September 21, 2020 at 9:54AM

Monochrome image of M45 300 second exposure

The image was taken from New Mexico 

 

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Thursday
Mar122020

a one second image of globular cluster messier 13

DateThursday, March 12, 2020 at 6:50AM

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