Pleiades -- or at least part of it -- captured in mid-February in one of my first driveway sessions with the Seestar S50. Neighborhood haze and winter light giving things a greenish glow. Another try at the Pleiades, from darker skies in the Big Sioux Recreation Area on a windy March 1. Captured most of... Continue Reading →
M2 star cluster, photographed from my backyard in September 2024. Here, There & In My Chair with Messier 2 There are, by my count, 42 star clusters in Charles Messier's famous list of 110 deep space objects that are "not comets." And I'll confess: unless you've got a Hubble or James Webb telescope lying around... Continue Reading →
HERE: M1, the Crab Nebula, shot March 2024 from Brandon, SD with my Seestar S50 camera scope. Crab Nebula: Deep Space Objects from Every Angle It's early autumn here in the States. Nights are getting cooler, and darker for longer. And I'm taking advantage of clear, still evenings to plot a few hours course around... Continue Reading →
Awful iPhone photo aside, the way skies lit up on campouts away from the city inspired me to finally invest in a telescope to check them out myself. But I had to suffer through a couple early shortcuts first. Learning from my Early Astronomical Missteps Folks in my family tend to be obsessive. At least,... Continue Reading →
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