Canada Day Moon
12.2 day old waxing crescent Moon, 92.4% illuminated. The sky is still very smokey…. Happy Canada Day you sons o’ bitches!
Summer Triangle, Milky Way, and Fireflies
Lots of fireflies last night. Temperature ranged from 21°C to 15°C. Very humid. Seeing was poor.
The Light Show That Just Kept on Giving
When I left work I was just hoping to see some green through some sucker holes. So off to Carden Alvar I went. On a side note, I happened to
Northern Lights
Nice light show last night. Reds and greens were visible naked eye. The waxing crescent moon was very bright unfortunately. Coyotes were howling as usual. Location: Carden Alvar Provincial Park
More of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Third opportunity to shoot this thing. This time with Hyades, right beside NGC 1647. It’s getting fainter every night. Not a great picture, but you get what you pay for.
Mars and Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Conditions were not unfavourable tonight, until the clouds rolled in.
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Finally go to see it. High thin cloud made seeing it through binoculars difficult. This is a single 4 second exposure, shot from underneath a street lamp.
More X class flares than clear nights in 2023
Three X class flares; two clear nights so far. Kp5 last night, but the magnetic field was north all night. Clouds on the northern horizon made seeing Comet C/2022 E3
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Last Lunar Eclipse of 2022
Early this morning was the last Lunar Eclipse of 2022. It was broadcast live on the Virtual Telescope website presented by Gianluca Masa with images provided by photographers from around