On my daily commute to work, I pass a number of small, man-made ponds that ducks and geese frequent. For actually being basically runoff drainage ditches, they’re kind-of nice. I like ’em. Around this time of year when the days are still warm but the nights are getting cooler, the ponds will steam in the […]
This storm on Saturn popped up around 2010 and the spacecraft Cassini had a front row seat to take this beautiful image. The lighter colors are the cloud layers from deep down inside Saturn itself being churned up by the storm and brought to the top. The storm is around 9,000 miles in diameter – […]
-While the scope autoguider calibrates, I’d like to talk a little bit about my newest project. With a lot of help from Andy and the internet, I’m making an auto-logging weather station that will update a graph of the previous days temperature and barometric pressure to my website: jeffreysboldlygoingnowhere.com This is a project that I’ve […]
22:30:00 -Relatively clear night for a humid summer. No moon (yet) and a cool breeze. Going to try and image M56, M57, M27, Cocoon Nebula, and maybe IC 1396. I’m starting out with the Meade DSI II Pro first and then am going to move on to the Canon… and save in the correct format […]
Ella got stung by a bee… Welp, now we know what a stinger looks like under the microscope!
9:23am *Next Morning* I forgot to transfer the image files to my networked drive so can access them on the computer that I process the images on; capture images on PC in observatory, process images on PC in house. The bad thing is that I didn’t save the files in the format I wanted (CR2 […]
…still talking about scale here: Alright, now let’s think about time. The universe is known to be about 13 billion years old. (13.77 +-0.059 billion years to be exact.) To more easily comprehend this amount of time and the things that have happened since then, let’s scale that down to 13 years instead of 13 […]
9:20pm -I’m making it a point from now on that I have to make an entry in this journal every single time I observe, even if I’m only out here for a few minutes – even if I only write the date and time!! -Ok, so tonight is a relatively clear night (for a humid […]
Most of us have ridden on a commercial jet. To fly from coast to coast, it takes about 9 hours right? How long do you think, flying in an airliner, would it take to reach the Moon? Just take a guess… The answer is 18 days. 18 days of airplane food! That’s a long time. Now, […]
Oh man, is it a beautiful night or what?! It’s 72 degrees outside, light to no wind, no moon, as dark a sky as we get around here… stunning. It’s 10:45pm on a Thursday night and I just aligned my scope. I am getting ready to do some imaging of Saturn and try my hand […]