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Dunlap Observatory, 5 May 2012: supermoon
link to fb photo album: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151666043765602.855202.862120601&type=1&l=e3391fcfac
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Links to astro-photo sites
a growing post… http://www.flickr.com/photos/astroporn/
Orrery, Saturnilabe, and other clockwork gadgets
One of the other ideas I’ve been mulling is to build a wee model that will enable me to make a stop motion animation to represent the appearance of Saturn as viewed from here. This is what I’ve discovered: 1. … Continue reading
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Saturn near opposition, April 2012
In planning to capture some images around the time of opposition, Alden and Ron met me at the Science Centre on Monday [April 9th]. Alden brought the C8, and Ron brought the keys! As it turns out, the seeing has … Continue reading
Collimation Links
Care of Shane, on the lookout…. http://www.astromart.com/articles/article.asp?article_id=548 http://arnholm.org/astro/collimation/index.html – collimating a C8 from arnholm: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/collim.html and collimating with a webcam: http://sweiller.free.fr/collimation.html
Four Planet // Four Moon Night [first 2012 Image with C8, D7000, and CCD-SSIV]
Well, it finally cleared up enough last night for Alden and I to get together. Alden is a club member and manages the equipment, and offered to provide orientation for the Celestron 8 telescope which I can also borrow this … Continue reading
Tilt of Saturn
Care of Rob, on the lookout… http://www.universetoday.com/15399/tilt-of-saturn/
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The End of Cassini
Care of John, on the lookout.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17471128
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Kalium Observatory and New Gear
So, this week I got a few pieces of astrophotography equipment/accessories. Orion StarShoot Solar System Color Imaging Camera IV – basically a webcam on steroids. This replaces a telescope eyepiece and connects directly to my mac for image capture. The … Continue reading
Saturn, Spica, New Moon, November 22, 2011
Back in early November Chris Beckett met me for coffee and to chat about telescopes and other gear that I was researching while writing the SSHRC ID grant. The two biggest obstacles for me at that point were 1) having … Continue reading
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