http://www.scopenews.com/M571x1.jpg From last night, 72 minutes of M57 in the blue skies. Flat frames are essential, the bright sky background reveals every...
Another M101: http://www.pbase.com/mclemens1969/image/111641548/original That is > 80 frames of M101 combined. Unfortunately 70 of those 80 frames were shot...
Pretty nice out last night, again tonight expect typical Alaskan killer Springtime seeing and clear skies. The Moon is out, which will hamper deep sky seeing a...
In total I got 4 hrs and 15 minutes exposure on this bad boy: http://www.scopenews.com/m101lg.jpg There are ~ 2 hours of steady darkness per night right now, ...
I can see M101 from my house in Wasilla... here is 25 exposures of 5 mins each from tonight http://www.scopenews.com/m101.jpg same techniques as last time for...
M63 gets pretty high up, not as high as M51. The challenge with this galaxy is its much lower contrast than M51, and incredible contrast difference between its...
Reminder from: AlaskanAstronomy Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlaskanAstronomy/cal Apollo to the Moon Friday April 17, 2009 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm (The...
Last night I left the CCD camera off all night, and worked with the EOS 40D DSLR only. I also used Nebulosity-2 for the first time, which turned out to be a...
Any other Alaskans going to next month's Texas Star Party? I'm renting a scope this year because of the shipping expense and hassle. It's a Johnsonian pop-up...
Wow! Spacewalking astronaut at ISS (International Space Station) caught on images taken through telescope! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html...
Even with very good seeing tonight I could not coax the Cassini Division out of Saturns rings. They have opened up a bit quite fast it seems. I had wishful...
3 exposures averaged, through the EOS 40D, 1/200th sec at ISO800 Through a light volcanic haze. http://www.pbase.com/mclemens1969/image/110830338/original ...
Reminder from: AlaskanAstronomy Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlaskanAstronomy/cal ERNC - Antarctica and the Neutrino Telescope Friday April 3,...
Is anyone interested in helping with a KidsDay event? ...see below. Could we do some solar astronomy? One problem with that -- I don't think there are many...
This is my first "hybrid" attempt of combining a DSLR image (the wide starfield) with the ST237 galaxy image. I need to go a lot deeper on the surrounding...
Tonight should be a great night at the ERNC for Astronomy! Michael Paoletti is presenting on Neptune. Based upon his previous presentation this one should be...
Reminder from: AlaskanAstronomy Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlaskanAstronomy/cal NOT the End of the World Transit of Venus, 2012 Friday March...
Press release from UAA: Astronomy collision! Two astronomy events on Friday the 20! Richard Pellessier will present on the 2012 Transit of Venus at the ERNC at...
March 20 - Richard Pellessier will present Preliminary Planning for the 2012 Transit of Venus Expedition. A portion of the talk will cover all past historical...
