Well-Framed Early Waxing Gibbous Moon, May 2020
With excellent viewing conditions on this cool night, I took a number of pictures of the Moon with my telescope and iPhone.
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Computer Looking Up
Astronomy, and Computer Technology
Telescope
Moon on May 3rd, 2020
Time to start getting the telescopes out more regularly, as the weather warms but is not too warm yet.
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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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Astropolitics and the “Lost Focus” of The Hubble Space Telescope
As an undergraduate studying computer engineering 24 years ago, I read a book that molded my perspective on science, scientists, and politics.
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Sun in April, 2020
It has been a while since I looked at the Sun through a telescope.
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Venus, Early March, 2020
Venus is still a remarkable and bright experience, in the West sky shortly after Sunset.
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Waxing Gibbous Moon, October 2019 via iPhone
I didn’t realize until tonight that I had yet to try afocal astrophotography with my iPhone.
Read MoreSaturn and Overcompensating
As with Jupiter, I relied on all of my past experiences for the preliminary camera settings, specifically for ISO and exposure.
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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.
Read MoreFixing Jupiter
But then I thought, what if I chose only two of the videos instead of the full three?
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