NP101is Imaging the Skies over Maryland!
We’ve been watching Jim Johnson’s progress for many years on Flickr and feel he’s broken into the top-tier of imaging with his recent targets.
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Images
TV85: Galaxy Season from Palm Springs, CA
Jeff Fishman, imaging with his Tele Vue-85 and one-shot-color camera from the Bortle 7 skies of Palm Springs, CA, shared with us these Galaxy images taken during this spring’s Northern hemisphere Galaxy Season.
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The Apparition of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) did not become a daylight comet as some had predicted — nevertheless the dirty-snowball put on a fine show in the twilight skies.
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Solar Cycle 25: Up and Up!
Increased solar activity around “solar max” can contribute to more frequent and intense sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections, and intensified auroras at lower latitudes, offering stunning visual displays. All “good news” for amateur observers!
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Looking back at the “Best of 2023”
We’re in the middle of 2024 already (quo tempore fugit!) making this a good time for a retrospective look at our most popular blogs of 2023. Que the harp music …
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Jupiter: Your Opposition Images
A planetary “opposition” happens on the day that Earth and an outer planet line up on the same side of
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Rings of Fire: 14 October 2023 Annular Eclipse Photos
On October 14th, an Annular solar eclipse crossed the Americas with a central path that was mostly over land and
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Sketching the Universe!
When sketching at the eyepiece, one has to be cognizant of the relative distances between the stars, their brightness, and
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Pixel Peeping
IntroductionTo the uninitiated, the habits of wide-field astrophotographers must seem peculiar: they spend hours imaging an object through their scope,
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Catching Up: Linwood Ferguson’s NP101is
Back in 2021, we did a post on Florida’s Linwood Ferguson. Linwood imaged through his Tele Vue-NP101is using a full-frame
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