Jupiter Animations 2017
On May 31st I took a good sample set of Jupiter images to attempt an animated GIF.
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Computer Looking Up
Astronomy, and Computer Technology
Month: June 2017
First Saturn of 2017
It will be a challenge to get the ISO and exposures right, since Saturn is fainter than Jupiter.
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Hunting the International Space Station
On Sunday night yesterday, I attempted more pictures during the ISS’s even longer four-minute flyby.
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A Bird, a Plane, a UFO?
This is likely a plane’s fuselage. But it just seemed awfully high in the sky for a commercial plane. What do you think it is? Aliens?
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Constellations II: Leo the Lion
Five weeks. That is how long I had to wait from my first session photographing Leo the Lion to my second.
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Moon, May 29th
Here is a tip for checking camera settings on an image. Most newer cameras should store these settings as part of the image file’s metadata.
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