Location: Prince of Wales, NB
Date/Time: April 15, 2011 2225hrs-0155hrs
Weather: 1 degree Celsius, low haze, no clouds, very light wind.
Attendance: Mike, Peter, Chris, Dave, Unknown, Carla, Myself.
Equipment: Mike-Refractor with go to mount
Peter-Dobsonian
Chris-CPC with goto mount
Dave-Reflector with goto mount
Unknown-?
Myself-20x80 Binos and mounted DSLR camera
Report: The Moon was 94% full and very bright. Bright enough to put solid shadows on the ground after midnight and this greatly affected all the images taken.
Celestial objects observed:
Through Binos: Saturn, its rings and one moon (Titan). The Moon was almost too bright to look at. Manny craters and features resolved very nicely, especially near the terminator and Tyco. Other, fainter objects were extremely hard to find with the Moon being so bright.
Through Chris’s' CPC: Saturn, its rings clearly resolved and 5 moons(most I’ve seen through a telescope), M57 (The Ring Nebula) could be seen with averted vision(looked like a fuzzy donut hanging in space-amazing to see!)
Through Mikes' Refractor: M13 AKA The Great Cluster In Hercules looked like a faint, very small shotgun birdshot blast in space. Open cluster M67 which looked like a loose collection of close stars. M44 Beehive Cluster which is a much heavier collection of stars that appeared faint on this night due to the brightness of the Moon.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Observing Images
Location: Prince of Wales, NB
Date/Time: April 15,2011 2225hrs-2245hrs
From the Top: Almost Full Moon halfway up in the sky to the south, Orion's Belt just over the western horizon, Big Dipper almost straight up to the north, and Cassiopeia low in the north.
Images taken with a Cannon Rebel DSLR ISO 1600 25sec exposure.
Date/Time: April 15,2011 2225hrs-2245hrs
From the Top: Almost Full Moon halfway up in the sky to the south, Orion's Belt just over the western horizon, Big Dipper almost straight up to the north, and Cassiopeia low in the north.
Images taken with a Cannon Rebel DSLR ISO 1600 25sec exposure.
Friday, April 1, 2011
ORION THE HUNTER
This is my first night time picture of the stars with my 'new to me' Cannon Rebel DSLR camera with a 28-80mm lens. It is set at 15 sec elapsed shutter time with an ISO setting of 100. A million thanks to Mike P for the crash course in DSLR settings which made this picture possible. The pictures taken by myself on full auto mode did not turn out at all.
My battery died before I could get more shots. A new battery is on the way, so I'm hoping that the quality will improve with lots of practice.
TURN OF THE TIDE
These are some of my first pictures taken with my new Cannon Rebel DSLR camera.
This is the Saint John River at the Reversing Falls just above the bridge. The Tide is changing from high tide to low tide.
Friday, March 18, 2011
SAINT PATRICKS DAY OBSERVING REPORT
Place: Prince of Wales, NB
Date: March 17/11 1950-2115hrs
Weather: 5 degrees Celsius, partly cloudy, no wind.
Equipment: Olympus fe-47 digital camera mounted to 6" reflector telescope with a 32 mm eyepiece. Cannon camcorder mounted to a tripod.
Attendance: Alexis, Bradley, Myself.
Report: Weather was excellent, not too warm not too cold, and no wind. There was a fair amount of high level clouds that affected some of my videos but other than that the viewing conditions were excellent.
Planets observed and photographed: Jupiter and Mercury low in the west were visible just after sunset which happened around 1930hrs.
Constellations observed: Big Dipper stood on end in the NNE. Cassiopia in the NNW. Leo in the SE. Lupus, and Orion in the SW. Taurus in the SWW.
Explained and pointed out to Alexis and Bradley M45 which is also called Peleides and The Seven Sisters. Told them how this star cluster was used for thousands of years to tell farmers when to plant crops in the spring and when to harvest in the fall. The farmers did this by observing when M45 disappeared in the spring and reappeared in the fall. Also, it is called Subaru by the Japanese and if you look at the car logo, it has stars in it which is Peleides. This is by far my favorite star cluster, for these reasons and the fact that it is extremely beautiful when viewed through binoculars. It resembles diamonds on black velvet.
The Moon was 93% Full on this evening. There were high level clouds that seemed to go over that area of the sky for most of the observing time. Obtained a video and many pictures of the Moon. While capturing the video, at the 15 second mark, at approximately 2050hrs, a spec raced across the face of the moon so fast that it could not be confirmed what it was. Upon reviewing the video later, it was determined that it was a satellite. Of course, this is not confirmed officially...Just an educated guess.
Obtained about 45 minuites of video of the sky in the direction of Sirius and Orion. This was done to capture footage of a shooting star. Have not reviewed footage yet...will update.
Date: March 17/11 1950-2115hrs
Weather: 5 degrees Celsius, partly cloudy, no wind.
Equipment: Olympus fe-47 digital camera mounted to 6" reflector telescope with a 32 mm eyepiece. Cannon camcorder mounted to a tripod.
Attendance: Alexis, Bradley, Myself.
Report: Weather was excellent, not too warm not too cold, and no wind. There was a fair amount of high level clouds that affected some of my videos but other than that the viewing conditions were excellent.
Planets observed and photographed: Jupiter and Mercury low in the west were visible just after sunset which happened around 1930hrs.
Constellations observed: Big Dipper stood on end in the NNE. Cassiopia in the NNW. Leo in the SE. Lupus, and Orion in the SW. Taurus in the SWW.
Explained and pointed out to Alexis and Bradley M45 which is also called Peleides and The Seven Sisters. Told them how this star cluster was used for thousands of years to tell farmers when to plant crops in the spring and when to harvest in the fall. The farmers did this by observing when M45 disappeared in the spring and reappeared in the fall. Also, it is called Subaru by the Japanese and if you look at the car logo, it has stars in it which is Peleides. This is by far my favorite star cluster, for these reasons and the fact that it is extremely beautiful when viewed through binoculars. It resembles diamonds on black velvet.
The Moon was 93% Full on this evening. There were high level clouds that seemed to go over that area of the sky for most of the observing time. Obtained a video and many pictures of the Moon. While capturing the video, at the 15 second mark, at approximately 2050hrs, a spec raced across the face of the moon so fast that it could not be confirmed what it was. Upon reviewing the video later, it was determined that it was a satellite. Of course, this is not confirmed officially...Just an educated guess.
Obtained about 45 minuites of video of the sky in the direction of Sirius and Orion. This was done to capture footage of a shooting star. Have not reviewed footage yet...will update.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Sunspots 1164 & 1166
Sunspots 1164 & 1166 from Saint John NB March 4/11@ 1530hrs using the club PST with a 9mm eyepiece and my C190 Kodak digital camera attached.
Weather -10 degrees Celsius partly cloudy. Cloud covered over at 1610hrs preventing me from getting good photos.
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