The waning gibbous Sturgeon Moon on the morning of August 22, 2024. There's significant detail on this image if you click and zoom, including the terracing on the walls of the crater Copernicus.
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
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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...
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