Crazy Prominence
The Sun today in hydrogen-alpha False colour
The Moon Passing through Messier 45
Pretty good opportunity tonight… Sadly C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is blocked from here, so that means an early morning road trip. Anyway, here it is: This is a composite image of
Waxing Gibbous Moon and Elephant’s Trunk
6.4° C, 75% Humidity. 87.1% illuminated waning gibbous Moon 🌖🔭 70 minutes of the Elephant’s Trunk
The Moon Tonight with the Heart of the Heart Nebula
6.4°C, 80% humidity… Waning gibbous Moon 94.1% illuminated 🌖🔭 Also spent 45 minutes on IC 1805. The field of view is way too narrow to get the whole thing, so
Continue readingThe Moon Tonight with the Heart of the Heart Nebula
Titan Shadow Transit on Saturn
Seeing was brutal. At times it wasn’t so brutal, but it was still awful. Looked better in the eyepiece.
The Moon Tonight
Shooting NGC 5907 with the Seestar tonight. Saw my first Perseid of the year.
Ariane 6 Rocket Body
Was out in a vain attempt to see some Perseid meteors and was on the phone with Nicole when she noticed something weird near the zenith. We believe it was
Terrible Seeing, Perseids coming up
Skies were predicted to be better tonight, but it’s still brutal. The Moon is almost full too as seen below. Didn’t see any Perseids. Here are some Perseid images from
Lake Traverse, Algonquin Park
Located at the north east of Algonquin Park, Lake Traverse is home to the Algonquin Radio Observatory. It is also the site of the former Turtle Club that was
Wayback Wednesday
Back on April 3rd of 2013, Comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS was in same field of view with Messier 31 (the Andromeda Galaxy). I was able to capture this from Kirkfield