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Astronomy | |
| Astronomy
is the natural science that studies everything outside
Earth's atmosphere, including stars, planets,
galaxies, and the physical universe. And Astrophysics
is: Physics to understand how celestial objects work
and form. Got my first Telescope as a teenager and have loved the Science and Science Fiction ever since. For the last 60 years I don’t usually talk about it because most of my acquaintances and friends glaze over and look extremely disinterested, so I keep it to my self, always have. Since my retirement I have invested in some better equipment and had the time to learn a bit more, in fact considering becoming a member of AAS American Astronomical Society so I can contribute to the science. Quit honestly Astronomy is one of the most complex sciences and fills my mind. I have recently started taking pictures of what I observe and shown them to some friends, to my surprise some think its really cool, some still glaze over, so that’s it! Now I feel okay about boring you to death LOL |
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I use this setup
the most. The heart is a Red Cat 51 and an AM5N
mount. 4-element Petzval apochromatic refractor (in
3 groups) using FPL-53 glass, Focal Length: 250 mm
Focal Ratio (F-Stop): f/4.9. Its a good wide field
scope. I usually shoot in Mono thru 7 filters:
Luminescence, Red, Green, Blue,SII, HA and
OIII.
My 'Rig' has a mini fan-less PC attached to the
telescope and it runs a freeware program called
'Nina' that controls the rig. It can also be
pre-programed long before a session and is connected
via WiFi to my main system in the office. Super
powerful PC: i7, 64 gigs of RAM, 4TB SSD local
storage and 26TB of storage on a NAS.
Current
Targets 35:
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.jpg) Orion Nebula M42
Triangulum Galaxy M33 Pleiades (M45) California Nebula NGC 1499 Elephant's Trunk Nebula North America Nebula Carina Nebula NGC 3324 Maia Nebula Butterfly Nebula IC 1318 NGC 2244 inside the Rosette Nebula Andromeda Galaxy Messier M31 Veil Nebula Rosette Nebula NGC 2244 Ced 19I Omega Nebula NGC 6618 Gamma Cygni Nebula IC 1318 Bat Nebula IC 1340 M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy M64 - The Black Eye Galaxy NGC 2024 Flame NGC 6188 Rim Eagle Nebula (Pillars of Creation) Soul Nebula IC1848 Whirlpool Galaxy m51 Pavo Galaxy NGC 6744 NGC 2467 Crossbones Nebula Silver Sliver Galaxy NGC 891 Little Sombrero NGC 7814 Heart Nebula NGC 896 Crab Nebula (M1) M95 or NGC 3351 NGC 3368 The Horsehead Nebula (IC 434) IC 2118 The Witch Head Nebula |
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| My outside Workstation: | ||
 The telescope pictured above is my wide view setup (250mm), when it looks at the sky it looks at a lager chunk. I have ordered (69th Birthday) a Stellarvue SVX102T 714mm. Considerably better and more powerful Telescope. Its hand made in Northern California. Eventually I will be able to get better images (clearer/Higher resolution) further away, so that's exciting. |
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| Inside Workstation: | ||
 After a night of gathering data, (20 to 30 Gigabytes worth) its has to be processed. In other words so we humans can see it. There is a lot of light (Photons) that humans can’t see, so It needs work. Its also in small chunks that have to be put together before we can even start processing. This is called ‘Stacking’. I will not going to processing as it can be very time consuming and complex. At
the end and past the study of an interstellar object
you can get a picture, I was looking at M31 The
Andromeda Galaxy, Located about 2.5 million
light-years away from Earth
A barred spiral galaxy containing an estimated one trillion stars. |