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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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Day 130 Wednesday 30th July 2014 - 340 galaxies imaged and very high humidity.

DateWednesday, July 30, 2014 at 8:16AM

A very long imaging run tonight of  340 galaxies. (My days are taken up with blinking these images).

A very humid night and image quality was very poor indeed but I thought I would let it run. It took until about 3 a.m. I aim to try out an all - nighter if humidity permits. Here are some of the better images.

This is PGC 63861

 

This is NGC 6930

 

This is its location in Delphinus

and NGC 7640 in Andromeda

 

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