Venus and the Pleiades in April 2020
Inspired by other blogs such as Heads UP! taking cool pictures of Venus near the Pleiades, I knew I had to get in on the action myself.
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Computer Looking Up
Astronomy, and Computer Technology
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Cloud Hiatus Over
It will be a fun year. Jupiter and Saturn’s oppositions are a mere five months away. Mars returns to opposition this year.
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Early Riser
Not too early, but early enough. Here was the Quarter Moon rising over Lake Michigan today, early afternoon.
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The Shape of Things to Come – Jupiter and Saturn
This is a very exciting post, at least for me. It’s the first time on my blog that I have a picture of Jupiter and Saturn together!
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Imaging Jupiter – How Many Frames to Stack?
Planetary (as well as deep sky) imaging requires stacking multiple picture frames, either actual still images or the frames from a video.
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New Jupiter Options
Another benefit, I believe, of the new camera is that I can finally process a Drizzle in Autostakkert.
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Fixing Jupiter
But then I thought, what if I chose only two of the videos instead of the full three?
Read MoreForgotten Mars
Mars may be gone for now, but it is not forgotten to me.
Read MoreSaturn at Opposition, July 2019
As I had not filmed Saturn since last year, I was very worried that the results would not be good.
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Philosophical Anathema – Astronomy versus Astrology
When I talk to people about astronomy, they sometimes mistake it as astrology. But astronomy and astrology are diametrically opposed. In this article we review our connection to the sky through history and in our lives, and why astronomy is the key to understanding the cosmos.
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