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May 30th, 2007 by sgcullen in Announcements | 1 Comments | 1070 Views
We just saw an ad in this month's Sky & Telescope for the AstroTrac TT320 ultra portable tracking system. This appears to be a nice tracking system that will allow up to 2 hours of tracking for wide field imaging using a 35mm camera. Seems like this is a good alternative to a home built barn door tracker...although it isn't...
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November 13th, 2007 by sgcullen in Breaking News | 2 Comments | 611 Views
For the past month or so, the Kaguya spacecraft, also known as Selene, has been orbiting the Moon at an altitude of 62 miles. In an attempt to replicate the famous "Earth-rise" image photographed by Apollo 11 astronauts from their command module, the Japanese craft has done it one better and returned a high-definition version....
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May 14th, 2007 by sgcullen in Space Weather | 0 Comments | 592 Views
No, it's not the next blockbuster movie to supplant Spiderman 3 at the box office...but it is an interesting movie none the less. This is a movie made from series of individual pictures of the sun setting in Hawaii causing a green flash. We used a 400mm Nikon lens on the camera so we were able to get in fairly close to the...
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September 18th, 2007 by sgcullen in Breaking News | 0 Comments | 590 Views
The Internet is abuzz with news of a meteorite impact in Peru. Witnesses say they saw a fireball that they initially thought was an aircraft. The impact, near the remote village of Carancas high in the Andes, created a 30-meter wide by 6-meter deep crater. Even more startling are reports of villagers becoming sick from a...
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