Sunday, January 15, 2012

Meet Stanley...

Stanley helps me control the telescope using Starry night software.
 Housed in a very nice plastic workshop storage box on wheels....
looking for lovejoy comet tonight, but looks like the clouds and streelights may beat me..
No luck finding lovejoy comet, but M42 came out ok using a CLS filter and some ImageJ processing.


Friday, January 6, 2012

Comet 78P via Itelescope

First effort with the new itelescope one button comet tools. Used the acquire Comet/neo links for the elements. works really good.... Comet 78P Gehrels in the FOV first time.. here is a cropped image from using the G11 telescope in New Mexico... Saturday avo fun....