This photo was taken Monday 4/27/2015 with NexStar 8SE using NexImage 5 camera.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Blood Moon 4/4/2015
This photo was taken Saturday morning. The full moon nearly always appears coppery red during a total lunar
eclipse. That’s because the dispersed light from all the Earth’s
sunrises and sunsets falls on the face of the moon at mid-eclipse. Thus
the term blood moon can be and probably is applied to any and all total lunar eclipses.
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Jupiter's Galilean Moons
I took this photo using the NexStar 8SE telescope along with the NexImage 5. The software used was iCap and I configured it to use 4x binning. Using 4x binning gives a larger capture view when recording the video. The photo shows all 4 Galilean Moons. The moons starting out from Jupiter are Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and IO. Galileo Galilei discovered the moons in 1610 and were the first objects found to orbit a body that was neither Earth nor the Sun.
Jupiter's Moons locator chart
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/observing-tools/jupiter_moons/jupiter.html
Jupiter's Moons locator chart
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/observing-tools/jupiter_moons/jupiter.html
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Saturn
This photo was taken just before dawn. I used the NexImage 5 webcam with NexStar 8SE. The video I processed was only 20 seconds.
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