Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Most of this week was spent catching up on studying general relativity and gravity wave physics. It has been slow going trying to understand this stuff, but I found a
Observing with Street Lights
Dark sky sites not always necessary to see the Milky Way (This image was taken ouside of a B&B in Julian, CA)
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Friday, July 15, 2016
Gravity wavestudy sessions, trying new mount for pointing at dim objects using RA and Dec and using 600mm camera views of Albiereo, M57 and Sheliak in preparation of practicing for AAVSO observation of variable stars
Well, this week, in between gravitational wave study sessions, has been able to gather a few astro photos and begin the quality control check out of the new telescope mount. As I've mentioned previously my goal of collecting light curve data from eclipsing binaries and other variable stars is now able to move forward. Since some of the target stars are
Friday, July 8, 2016
Trying out new lightweight alt/az tracking mount, using just 600mm telephoto for Saturn and Mizar and comparing software enhancement differences
Greetings from Palmia Observatory
Well, the night clouds have been arriving about a couple of hours before midnight, so that meant a chance to get in some preliminary testing of this new Ioptron, self-aligning mount.
As you probably already know, I have been experimenting with several products to get quicker alignments because, well, I might as well just say it, I'm kind of lazy when it comes
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Monday, July 4, 2016
Exploring El Dorado Illinois as possible Eclipse 2017 viewing site, Reading "Gravity from the ground up", Catching Lighning Bugs, Happy 4th of July!
Well, we're back in SoCal now after visiting relatives, Resident Astronomer Peggy's brother, Don in rural southern Illinois in the little town of El Dorado. Now it turns out that that location is on the total eclipse path for the August 2017 eclipse. So, we had to check out where
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