Although I have moved most things to the Carolina Skies Observatory Facebook Page, I'm thinking of reposting some things here as I like the format here, too. Not sure, but at the least this is a post to keep activity going here.
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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The Horsehead Nebula with the Dwarf 3
Here's an image of the Horsehead Nebula captured under my Bortle 8/9 skies. There's 2.38 hours of total integration time, captured i...

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I had a couple of emails asking how to defork an ETX telescope. The ETX 90 and ETX 125 were optically superb scopes, but the mounts left a...
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The clouds melted away last night with a northerly breeze and a clear, transparent sky opened up. As it does not get dark until around 10...
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Like the Ring Nebula, the Dumbbell nebula is a planetary nebula marking the end of a star's life as it puffs off its outer layers into s...