Finding Mercury in the Sky
Would this finally be the night I see Mercury? I had been searching for Mercury on and off for seven months.
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Computer Looking Up
Astronomy, and Computer Technology
Finding the Daytime Moon
That speck towards the bottom and to the right of center was the Waning Quarter Moon this morning.
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A Winter View of the Summer Triangle
A lot of stargazing stuff happened on or around the Ides of March, and I am still getting caught up.
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Fixing a Venus Image
When I took my latest Venus pictures a few days ago, I created them by stacking video through PIPP, AutoStakkert, and RegiStax.
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Early Daytime Moon through Smartphone
After photographing several nights of the pre-Full Moon, now I am interested in the waning daytime phases.
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Another Attempt at Photographing Venus
With a clear sky, calm air, and moderately cold temperature, I had no excuse not to attempt a final imagining of Venus.
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Yet Another Moon via Smartphone
By midnight, I knew I had to stay up a tad longer to see the Moon in proximity to both Jupiter and Spica.
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Photograph Over Lake Michigan
It was over a Mercury orbit ago when I last saw snow on the ground. We just got several inches overnight.
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Moon through Smartphone: Compensating for Clouds
With clouds, the equation changes a bit, so I scaled the shutter all the way up to 1/50 to get this (cropped, as the surroundings are all black).
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Searching for Uranus, with Torcularis Septentrionalis
Last weekend I went on an extreme hunt (from the safety of my driveway) to find the normally-shy seventh planet, Uranus.
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