Hydrogen Alpha Mosaic – Test Framing w/ the Moon for scale

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Jul 072014
 

It’s that time of year when Cygnus rises high over head and displays a multitude of nebulous treasure.  This mosaic is only a portion of the Cygnus constellation but represents a large patch of sky almost 9 x 9 degrees.  This is only a test framing as I create a game plan for a summer long imaging project.  For a sense of scale, I have included a gibbous moon which was not part of the original image as well as a full scale crop of the Crescent Nebula, bottom right, to show the full size scale of the original 83 megapixel image.

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Cygnus Mosaic in Hydrogen Alpha FSQ-106ED Apogee U16 AP900GTO Baader Ha Narrowband Filter 9x20min total exposure

 

 

Wagman Observatory – Privy Planning

 Astronomical, Star Parties  No Responses »
Jun 152014
 

The layout of the pads, sidewalks, and privy location at Wagman Observatory has been completed and drawn out on the grass.

 

Greene County 5/31/2014

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Jun 012014
 

Three AAAP members were preset at the Greene County Observing Site Saturday night.  It turned out to be a pretty decent night.

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Crescent Moon with Earth Shine and Jupiter

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Greene County Site Looking South at the Summer Milky Way. Light pollution is more prominent here now than in past years.

 

Additional Information:

The area around the Greene County Observing Site has seen a lot of new industry construction; most of it related to the Marcellus Shale boom.  Take a look at the Google Map view of all the new light sources that weren’t there 3 years ago.  About 70% are from the last year alone.  #1 is one of the brightest lights seen in the above Southern Milky Way shot.

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Bill Snyder Allentown 5.24.2014 Art Show

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May 272014
 

Bill Snyder and I attended another Art Show in Allentown PA over the Memorial Day weekend.  Here are a few pictures!

Bill also had an piece selected for the Gallery:

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Greene County Observing Site

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Apr 242014
 

Two of us spent Wednesday night at the Greene County Observing Site.  It had been almost 6 months since we’d been there last due to this years cold and snowy winter.  As always the light pollution continues to grow everywhere so I took panoramic shots of the site in daylight and at night to show the current lights in the SE and S primarily.  Unfortunately, I didn’t take them from the same spot or at the same focal length so they aren’t 100% comparable but they give you an idea.

 

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Greene County Observing Site at Night

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