Being held on September 10-12 for it’s 20th year, CSP-20 is planned to be the best ever!
We will be back under dark skies in Ashford, Connecticut with special guests, Carolyn Shoemaker, and David Levy.
Registration is now open to secure a place to meet and greet these famous astronomers, and hear their presentations.
For more information go to the Astronomical Society of [...]
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Posted in Astronomy on Jun 6th, 2010
“What an experience! Stargazing with 5000 of your closest friends interested in astronomy in New York City.”
It’s one thing to say you had a chance to do some astronomy in Battery Park, New York City, but another to say you did it with 100 other telescopes on hand, a tennis court sized James Webb telescope [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography on Mar 9th, 2010
Tonight was a rare clear and comfortable March evening when I decided to go out and capture the planet Venus, the Roman Goddess of love and beauty setting in the western sky. I chose as a foreground, the Riverview Cemetery in East Hampton, Connecticut. Perched on a hill overlooking Lake Pocotopaug. Venus, the second brightest object in the [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, Science, Space on Mar 3rd, 2010
A friend in Washington D.C. mailed me a stack of photos of the early days of space exploration in the United States. They are very interesting to see how we looked at space in the 1950’s and 1960’s. I will start off this “Space retrospective” series that I will post here intermittently, with two photographs of “Sidewalk Astronomers” [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, Space, astrophotography on Feb 22nd, 2010
The conditions were just about perfect this morning to try capturing the ISS in video mode on the Nikon D300s.
I set up in one of my dark sky locations in Marlborough, Ct. that had a good WSW view of where the ISS was going to appear at 6:07 am. The sky was starting to brighten [...]
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This photo was released this week by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) using the new VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) of the Orion Nebula.
It shows a deeper wide angle look into the nebula in the infrared, allowing astronomers to look into the dusty areas never seen by astronomers before. (PHOTO CREDIT ESO)
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Posted in Astronomy, Uncategorized, sun on Feb 7th, 2010
Super-Sol Sunday! Get it? Ok, my brain froze a little while I was out for yet another weekend doing solar astronomy. It was 26 degrees outside with the wind gusting at about 15 miles per hour as I set up my scope in Farley Field in Marlborough, Ct.
After checking Spaceweather.com it looked like a nice [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, sun on Feb 6th, 2010
I was traveling down Route 9 in Middletown the other day enroute to a photo assignment when I spotted a sun halo at about 45 degrees in elevation. This one the frist I have seen a in quite a while. I surmize that there was plenty ice crystals in the air from the blizzard that was [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography on Feb 1st, 2010
After work I took a quick look at the Clear Sky Clock for my area. It looked pretty good for a few hours this evening. So, I took advantage of the 30 degree temperature and continued astro testing the Nikon D300s camera.
I choose the astrophotographers most favorite target of the winter to shoot tonight. M42 [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, sun on Jan 31st, 2010
Despite the winter storms of this week, today, the last day of January provided me a nice quick view of the sun. With a new sunspot grouping called AR1043 coming around the limb in the northern hemisphere of the sun, I managed to get some video of it. I will post it as soon as I [...]
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