These are the Tadpoles of IC-410. They seem appropriate for the New Year when we are celebrating a fresh start or a new beginning. This emission nebula lies about 12000 light years away, and the Tadpoles are about 10 light years long. This is a stacked composite of 17 half hour h-alpha exposures taken through myContinue reading “Tadpoles – Happy New Year”
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Solar Image (2)
For this solar image I used an Imaging Source DMK51AU02.AS video camera. With its large format it can capture the whole sun in a single image with the Lunt Systems 80mm solar refractor. I used a video frame rate of 7.5 frames per second and combined 80% of 2000 images to produce the final image.Continue reading “Solar Image (2)”
Solar Image (1)
This solar image was taken with a dedicated Lunt 80mm solar refractor. Out of 5000 images, 80% were stacked and the resulting final image was inverted and sharpened in Photoshop. The original video was taken with an Imaging Source DMK 21AU618.AS video camera that produced solar images at a rate of 60 frames per second.
Whim, the observatory’s watchdog!
GOT SNOW?
Today on Camp Wood Road
Orion Nebula Work in Progress
This time of year Orion is visible all night long. It rises in the Eastern sky at about 6:30pm, it reaches its highest point at an altitude of about 50 degrees in the Southern sky at around midnight, and it sets in the West at about 6:00 AM. Since it measures a little more thanContinue reading “Orion Nebula Work in Progress”
Why a drone?
My new “Blueangel” is a drone! My previous “Blueangel” was a Piper Cherokee 180 which needed to be registered with the FAA. It had propellers, gps nav system, 50 gallon gas tank, altimeter, and various other instruments, but no belly cam and no autopilot. It required expensive AV fuel, upgrades, repairs, insurance, a hangar andContinue reading “Why a drone?”
Looking Backwards
This is a bird’s eye panorama of the Granite Oaks Subdivision and Williamson Valley road from the direction of Granite Mountain.
Astro La Vista Observatory 