Horsehead Nebula – 2015-03-20
First shot at Horsehead w/ my Hyperstar / Atik 414EX-Color combo. The yellowish glow in the middle is from all the moisture that was in the air last night, coupled with some glow from Benson, AZ. Click for a close-up.
Partly cloudy and a dirty dome on my allsky camera limited the ‘awe’, but you can still certainly tell that our Moon is diminishing in brightness ( and going ‘dark’ ) in this time lapse. Read more…
M 13 is a Globular Cluster about 145 light years across and 22,200 light years away. It is composed of several hundred thousand stars! Details: Comprised of 5 minute exposures for each filter: 6x Red, Read more…
Starlink recently ( past month’ish? ) added the ability to relocate your Starlink service to a new service address via the customer portal on their website. On my live drive stream a few days ago, Read more…
3 Comments
Mel · 2015-03-21 at 16:29
That is really nice. I saw it before I even enlarged the photo. Thanks for sharing!
Carol · 2015-05-24 at 22:01
Zowie!
Chris Cole · 2015-06-16 at 21:21
Nice to see your astro posts. I thought I would finally comment here. I am VERY envious of your nomadic lifestyle now. If you ever hit it big, get an Airstream and pull it by a vehicle that gets ridiculous gas mileage. Also, to counteract the fossil fuel guzzler, put a Tesla at the end of the Airstream.
I have bought a Lunt scope myself now too.
Chris Cole
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