April 18, 2017

A beautiful dark moonless night. The temperature started at about 4.4° C. Kevin and I were out there for less than two hours. Kevin and Edward setup their new CPC-925 scope. First light!. I left my my CPC-800 and MacBook Pro to collect the shots composing this M51 image. Whirlpool galaxy, M51. It is composed […]

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April 13, 2017

A cold night ranging from about 4.4° to about 0° C. It was just me tonight, my primary goal was to capture some images of Comet 41P. I’ve not had much luck observing comets. This one was positioned fairly high in the sky and made a close pass to earth (0.14 AU) on April 1st. […]

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