The weird, the wild and the wonderful.
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, 4x Green, 6x Blue. Captured the night of 8 May, 2021 Captured remotely at Rusty’s Read more…
NGC 4565 – The Needle Galaxy is an edge-on spiral galaxy between 30 to 50 million light years away located in the Coma Berenices constellation. Details: Comprised of 10 minute exposures for each filter: 12x Red, 10x Green, 11x Blue, and 10x Luminance. Captured the nights of 18 and 19 Read more…
NGC 3628 – The Hamburger Galaxy (also called Sarah’s Galaxy) is an unbarred spiral galaxy located about 35 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Leo. Although pictured alone here (due to narrow field of view of my telescope setup), it is part of a group of galaxies Read more…
The Leo Quartet consists of a collection of 4 galaxies located in the constellation of Leo. The galaxies are NGC3185, NGC3187, NGC3190 and NGC3193. Note that NGC3185 is out of frame in this image, but the remaining items are:Top Left: NGC 3193 (Galaxy) – 99.5 million light years awayTop Right: Read more…
Tonight, I’ll be going live for the maximum viewable conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. Live stream will begin at 4:45pm US Pacific / 7:45pm US Eastern time. I’ll be broadcasting the view from my Planewave 12.5″ CDK telescope at my remote observatory in Rodeo, NM. Remember, I have an all-sky Read more…
Hi all, A quick update on the Starlink Beta — a LOT has happened! Starlink Engineers hosted a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) Highlights Thread – LINK Full AMA Thread – LINK Mobile Internet Research Center provided their take – LINK Highlights that are of interest to (most) RV’ers: Mobile Read more…