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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Comet 103P/Hartley
Observed from Kitt Peak last night with the 11" Newtonian. I had hoped to get considerable exposure on comet 103p/Hartley, but was having declination backlash issues, so gave up after a while. This is a single 3m exposure with Canon XSi, cropped to about .5 degree square. In the upper left corner galaxy UGC 12381 is visible. North is approximately up. The comet was VERY extended, Melinda had trouble seeing it visually in the 11" until I cranked up the power a little. Oh well, it was fun tracking it down!
Monday, August 16, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Testing photo work
The powers that be have decided to change the format of the posting editor. This, of course, is terribly frustrating to me. In particular, I am having trouble loading and positioning pictures. I can't help but think that I need to practice this, and find the easiest way to do it. Certainly, they would not have made changes that would make it less user friendly, would they? I have reason to believe that this is Omega Centauri. I took this picture, and it is one of my favorites!
Ah, the Pleides! The seven sisters, Subaru, etc, etc, etc. It's a great open star cluster, and the first I remember seeing with a pair of generic binocs!
Bella Luna! What a great line from "Moonstruck"!
Of course, the scariest part of trying to figure this stuff out is that Dean and I will be giving a 'lecture' at the next TAAA meeting - teaching people how to build and maintain a blog. It should be entertaining at the very least!
Monday, May 3, 2010
New template trial
I'm always looking for new ways to jazz up the appearance of our blogs. I've seen so many creative backgrounds on other blogs, and decided it's time to give it a go! This may change on a frequent (or somewhat frequent) basis - until I find a look that I'm happy with. Any feedback, in the form of comments, is always appreciated!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Grand Canyon Phantom
Photo taken as part of a sequence in June '07 at the grand Canyon Star Party. Since the school mascot for the public school there (for the kids of Park employees) are the Phantoms, I've named this creature the Grand Canyon Phantom. In reality, I think it was a picture of Dennis Young at his star charts, but I can't explain the Yeti-like appearance under the dark Canyon skies...
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