Stuff in the Sky
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Thanks! Photo credit goes to my daughter.Nice shots @Zak. Cloudy and thunderstorms here in the Poconos, so it was a no gofer the Canuck Observatory
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Looking like I'm going to have to scrap the 2 telescopes my brother left for Abby and buy a good used one.
Anyone have a link to a forum or site, other than FleaBay, please, that specializes in telescopes?
Anyone have a link to a forum or site, other than FleaBay, please, that specializes in telescopes?
This is the one that a relative gave to my daughter. She used it to take the pictures above by aiming a cell phone camera at the eyepiece. We like it and I don't think it was terribly expensive.
This is an unintentional eclipse shot. My am propranolol wore off and I wasn't using a tripod and was shooting in "night mode" which must stack images to build a composite. My tremor just messed the algorithm way up. Either that or the moon is in fact a giant lathed spindly thing
Flying in to Spokane on Monday I had a window seat looking north. The smoke from the fires in the mountains rose as a grayish white plume. Then it hit some kind of ceiling (density layer? inversion?) and all the smoke was compressed into an opaque black horizontal line. It looked like someone had drawn a line in the sky with a huge black Sharpie and a straightline. I should have taken a picture, sorry! I've never seen that before.
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whew! thought my dementia was flaring up again
DanielOcean
Fart! : )
After messing around with my entry level newtonian, I decided it was time to add another optic and I have been eye balling this thing for a very long time.
No pic, at least worth posting, but I'm 97% sure that I finally got to see the zodiacal light.
Just spent the last 4 nights in a tiny fishing village on the south part of Magdalena Bay. Absolutely pitch black skies.
Every morning when walking to breakfast around 5AM, Venus looked like a jet on approach for landing just above the southern horizon. Like unreal, that can't be a planet bright. Same with Jupiter and Mars directly and well above.
The first morning I was just stunned to see the Milky Way and other stars so clearly. So other than marveling at the search light to the south. I didnt pay much attention to the cone shaped glow.
The second morning I realized there is basically nothing to the south in the way of developed towns for well over 100 miles. Never mind that the glow extended 30-ish degrees above, and perfectly centered on a vertical line drawn between Venus and Jupiter.
That has to be the zodiacal light?
Just spent the last 4 nights in a tiny fishing village on the south part of Magdalena Bay. Absolutely pitch black skies.
Every morning when walking to breakfast around 5AM, Venus looked like a jet on approach for landing just above the southern horizon. Like unreal, that can't be a planet bright. Same with Jupiter and Mars directly and well above.
The first morning I was just stunned to see the Milky Way and other stars so clearly. So other than marveling at the search light to the south. I didnt pay much attention to the cone shaped glow.
The second morning I realized there is basically nothing to the south in the way of developed towns for well over 100 miles. Never mind that the glow extended 30-ish degrees above, and perfectly centered on a vertical line drawn between Venus and Jupiter.
That has to be the zodiacal light?