Observing Reports

Back in the day this was one of my favorite threads on the Astronomy Magazine forums .
A lot of members posted their nightly observation sessions either that night or the following morning .
It was a pretty busy thread as many members posted regularly and many posted every night of the week .
What did you view ?
How were the seeing conditions and the transparency from your location ?
Did you set up only to find lousy seeing condition and tear everything down and put it all away ?
What magnifications and or filters did you use to get the best view ?
What was the temperature , wind and weather conditions like from your location or any other details of your viewing session that might be of interest ?
Did your dog run into your tripod and knock your alignment out ? Etc . Etc .
Post your nightly experiences here .

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Oh Yes yes yes ! :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Oh yes !
:laughing:

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Now it’s exactly midnight. Still waiting for the skies to clear…:expressionless:

Nikolai.

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I set up an imaging session for each night and keep a logbook. Here is an example for Thursday, October 17, 2024. I typically include the following data:

  • date & location
  • sky condition, temperature, & wind
  • moonrise, moonset, sunrise & sunset
  • running Origin on battery or line power
  • exposure time & total integration time
  • filter if any
  • time Origin is initialized
  • time I begin imaging each object.
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last night I got to show my son Betelgeuse, mars, Jupiter, Venus. and a passing satellite. just happed to be outside at teh right time

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While setting up my Celestron Origin to capture Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on the ridge behind my daughter’s sheep farm, I had company. Took a picture of the white-tailed deer silhouetted by the sunset over the Minas Basin section of the Bay of Fundy with my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra smartphone, which also controls Origin.

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Only the second day in February with clear skies at night so I took advantage of that by capturing several more star fields in Auriga. All of them have been added to my website as downloadable pdf files.

Dennis
Website:https://celestronorigin.space

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