Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Kennedy Space Station Tour Images
Location: Port Canaveral, FL
Date/Time: May 4, 2011 1145-1600hrs local time
Weather: 93 degrees Fahrenheit, humid, 20 knot winds from the north few clouds but hazy.
Attendence: Brandon, Jason, Myself.
Subject: Apollo 14 Capsule and Saturn V(largest rocket in the world, also this is the rocket that sent men to the Moon).
Date/Time: May 4, 2011 1145-1600hrs local time
Weather: 93 degrees Fahrenheit, humid, 20 knot winds from the north few clouds but hazy.
Attendence: Brandon, Jason, Myself.
Subject: Apollo 14 Capsule and Saturn V(largest rocket in the world, also this is the rocket that sent men to the Moon).
Kennedy Space Station Tour Images
Location: Port Canaveral, FL
Date/Time: May 4, 2011 1145-1600hrs local time
Weather: 93 degrees Fahrenheit, humid, 20 knot winds from the north few clouds but hazy.
Attendance: Brandon, Jason, Myself.
Subject: Shuttle Endeavour launch site.
Date/Time: May 4, 2011 1145-1600hrs local time
Weather: 93 degrees Fahrenheit, humid, 20 knot winds from the north few clouds but hazy.
Attendance: Brandon, Jason, Myself.
Subject: Shuttle Endeavour launch site.
Observing Report
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.
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.
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.
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