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Xanadu Observatory: Seeing Red
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Monday, February 8, 2010. It's a nice clear night so far in Tucson. I went out to open the roof on the observatory, and could not resist the urge to stop and enjoy the night sky for a little while. A bit higher and to the South is the amazing Red Supergiant Betelgeuse. One of the members of the dramatic constellation of mighty Orion. Farther up lies deep red Aldebaran. The leader of the v-shaped Hyades cluster and an important component of the sharp horns of Taurus the Bull. Right now my telescope and ca...
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Xanadu Observatory: 04/21/2009 Ready for More
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Sunday, February 7, 2010. 04/21/2009 Ready for More. The sun's going down and a new night of fun is starting here at TSP. I didn't get nearly enough sleep today but that's o.k., I'm ready for more! Here's an image of IC 4603, the nebulous region around the interesting star Rho Ophiuchius (how do you pronounce that, anyway? I took this in the early morning hours the past couple of nights. The numerous dark tendrils weaving their way around this area are really fascinating. Xanadu Observatory Home Page.
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Xanadu Observatory: 02/21/2009 High Speed Comet
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Sunday, February 7, 2010. 02/21/2009 High Speed Comet. Lately the astronomy world's been buzzing over Comet C/2007 N3, also known as Comet Lulin. It's grown rather bright, with naked-eye visibility. It also sports a rather greenish coma and has a long tail. I'm not sure I'll get another chance to image this one, as clouds have taken over the Tucson skies and my workload remains heavy. But I'm very happy to have had a chance to snap a brief picture of this celestial friend as he sped by! 10/31/2008 Beware...
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Xanadu Observatory: 03/07/2009 TAAA AstroImaging Night
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Sunday, February 7, 2010. 03/07/2009 TAAA AstroImaging Night. Last night was the (approximately) annual TAAA AstroImaging night. Members of the astroimaging special interest group get a chance to share their techniques and photos with the rest of the club. It's always a lot of fun and we see some amazing images. Steve gave the astronomy essentials portion of the meeting with a talk on basic astroimaging. After the break, we split up presentation duties among some of the members of the SIG. 11/18/2008 Ano...
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Xanadu Observatory: Grand Opening of the Chiricahua Astronomy Complex
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Sunday, February 14, 2010. Grand Opening of the Chiricahua Astronomy Complex. Last night was the first star party at the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association's. New Chiricahua Astronomy Complex. But the County just granted approval for us to actually allow events to occur on the site this past week. My friend and imaging mentor Dean brought his ccd equipment and started off his session with a quick one of Messier 34, an open cluster in Perseus. Click here to see his image. Xanadu Observatory Home Page.
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Xanadu Observatory: 06/21/2009 C-Row Star-B-Que
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Sunday, February 7, 2010. For the past two nights, I've been enjoying the Huachuca Astronomy Club's C-Row Star-B-Q. This event was held at the Repogazer (RGO) Observatory. The theme of C-Row is Celestron; the main observing field was filled with various Celestron telescopes and accessories. Celestron will be 50 years old next year, and there was plenty of vintage gear on the field. My contribution to the C-Row was my little white tube C-5 . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Xanadu Observatory Home Page.
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Xanadu Observatory: 04/03/2009 Asteroids and Near Earth Objects Workshop
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Sunday, February 7, 2010. 04/03/2009 Asteroids and Near Earth Objects Workshop. Last night was the first night of the Mount Lemmon Sky Center's Asteroids and Near Earth Objects (NEO's) Workshop. I decided to take a short break from an extremely busy tax season to try to learn a few new things. I have not done a lot of asteroid work in the past so thought it might be fun. The picture above was taken last night as we prepared to start our imaging run. As you can see even early in the evening it was qui...
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Xanadu Observatory: 02/09/2009 Staying Busy
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Sunday, February 7, 2010. I have been doing quite a bit of imaging, but unfortunately the processing has not kept up with the data acquisition so I now have about 30 objects to process! Here's one that I took back in December and January, it is the Jellyfish Nebula (IC443) in HaRGB format. For a larger version click here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Xanadu Observatory Home Page. KR7RK - My Ham Radio Home Page. Imported Blogs Below From Astronomyblogs.com. 04/21/2009 Ready for More. 10/07/2008 Bac...
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Xanadu Observatory: Summertime Treats
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Friday, September 9, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Xanadu Observatory Home Page. KR7RK - My Ham Radio Home Page. View my complete profile.
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Xanadu Observatory: Backyard Observatory Night at TAAA
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Friday, March 5, 2010. Backyard Observatory Night at TAAA. We're lucky here in Tucson to have so many amateur astronomers, and with the often-clear skies, building a backyard observatory can be a very worthwhile project. I gave a short presentation on Xanadu West, my vinyl-shed roll-off-roof observatory. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Xanadu Observatory Home Page. KR7RK - My Ham Radio Home Page. Backyard Observatory Night at TAAA. View my complete profile.
