March 15, 2011 Without getting too scientific on everyone, an exciting moment is going to happen this weekend – it’s the perigee! What is the perigee? It’s the point when the moon and the earth reach their closest point between each other. The moon is going to look super huge this coming weekend, and this will be a ...
December 22, 2010 As you may recall from yesterday’s post, I did not get the entire solstice eclipse from beginning to end due to cloud cover. But, from the halfway point forward, the clouds cleared and I was able to get some adequate coverage. After wrestling both mentally and processor-ily with the amount of images (98) and trying ...
December 21, 2010 The first lunar eclipse to occur on the winter solstice occurred. It’s the first time it’s happened in 600 years…and apparently won’t happen again for another 400 years. I had two strokes of luck with this amazing astronomical event: #1 – the path of the moon tracked almost directly over my house! Literally! I took ...
August 26, 2009 There’s no denying it – we’ve all deleted countless shots both off our camera and off our computers because they were just even to horrible to admit to publicly. And while filtering out the chaffe from the wheat is a good thing, if we don’t learn from our mistakes, we’ll continue to get chaff and ...
Tags: astrophotography, DIY, learning, starseducation, learning August 17, 2009 Rather than go through another hardware review today, I thought I would share a different kind of hardware with you – the DIY kind! Over the weekend I embarked on a little project on building a device to track stars as they move across the sky (even though it’s really the earth that’s moving and ...
Tags: astronomy, astrophotography, building, DIY, photography, projects, star trackerAssignments, education, hardware, learning, personal, photography, Video February 18, 2009 Until this last weekend, I had very limited experience with astrophotography. The concepts and techniques of the field are well documented, and I have read several articles on the subject. What this last weekend demonstrated to me, (and what I often tell everyone who reads this blog), is that there is no better way to ...
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