Managed to get to the observatory and image at least one object tonight, though the seeing was poor.
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The Whirlpool Galaxy, (Merging Galaxies) In Ursa Major
10 four-minute exposures, stacked, dark subtracted, flats applied, for a total exposure of forty minutes. Cropped image. Notice the additional galaxy in the top right corner.
Aquisition software - Canon EOS Utility, Guided with PHD guiding, Stacked with DeepSky Stacker, processed with Adobe Photoshop CS3
My Camera:
Hutech modified Canon T1i
Observatory Equipment:
88mm f5.6 Williams Optics refractor
Losmandy G-11 Gemini Goto mount on steel pier
Celestron 80mm f5 guide Scope
Orion Starshooter autoguider
Taken at the Louisville Astronomical Society Observatory in Curby, Indiana, on March 27, 1012
The Whirlpool Galaxy, (Merging Galaxies) In Ursa Major
10 four-minute exposures, stacked, dark subtracted, flats applied, for a total exposure of forty minutes. Cropped image. Notice the additional galaxy in the top right corner.
Aquisition software - Canon EOS Utility, Guided with PHD guiding, Stacked with DeepSky Stacker, processed with Adobe Photoshop CS3
My Camera:
Hutech modified Canon T1i
Observatory Equipment:
88mm f5.6 Williams Optics refractor
Losmandy G-11 Gemini Goto mount on steel pier
Celestron 80mm f5 guide Scope
Orion Starshooter autoguider
Taken at the Louisville Astronomical Society Observatory in Curby, Indiana, on March 27, 1012
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
