Misty Moon

Misty Moon through the skylight...

Date/Time: 2/26/15 9:09 PM
Camera: Nikon D3000
Focal Length: 75 mm
Exposure: 1 s
f/7.1
ISO: 800

Date/Time: 2/26/15 9:08 PM
Camera: Nikon D3000
Focal Length: 145 mm
Exposure: 1 s
f/7.1
ISO: 800

Always After the Perfect Snowflake!

Prelude to the next unit.

Snowflakes always have six sides or fingers as ordinary ice crystallizes in the hexagonal crystallographic system.  Crystalline solids are substances in which the particles are arranged in an orderly, geometric, repeating pattern.  They also have definite melting points (0 deg. C for ice) unlike amorphous solids such as rubber or glass.

Astronomy for Wimps

Orion through the bathroom skylight.  It was 10 degrees (F) outside but nice and warm inside...

 Nikon D3000, 15 s, F/8.0, ISO 800


Nikon D3000, 30 s, F/8.0, ISO 800

 Nikon D3000, 15 s, F/8.0, ISO 800, Photshop

Learning and Playing with New Software

Captured these shots with an Orion Star Shoot Eyepiece II Camera attached to an Orion EQ 8 Reflecting Telescope mounted on a Sirius EQ-G Computerized GoTo Telescope Mount in October 2014.  It has taken me this long before playing with the images.  The Star Shoot Camera actually creates a video which must be processed.  I used the planetary stacking program, RegiStax, to process the images and then Photoshop and Picasa for final tweaking.

Moon Shot 10-6-14, RegiStax, Rotate Crop

Moon Shot 10-6-14, RegiStax and Photoshop, Rotate and Crop

Original Moon Shot 10-6-14, RegisStax

Original Moon Shot 10-6-14, RegiStax and Photoshop