It was
clear again on Tuesday night, so I set up the 8-inch in the front yard
again. The seeing wasn’t as good though,
so my video stacks didn’t turn out quite as well.
I also had video of Saturn, which is up but dim, but my camera memory card malfunctioned and I lost them. I also lost about 15 M82 images. But I got most of the other videos copied over beforehand, thank goodness. This is also why I use my tablet and back up images as I take them, including darks and biases – this is the second time this card has done that. It decides that it’s no longer formatted properly.
Jupiter, Nikon D3100 on my C8 - no acquisition notes, unfortunately.
M104 Sombrero Galaxy from my front yard, Nikon D3100 on my C8 with the f/6.3 focal reducer
ISO-3200, 21x20s
Since it
was in the northern sky, drift was even worse than normal, so of the 82
pictures I took, only 23 passed my standard, and DSS took 21 of those. So not a lot of light on it. But, it goes to show that I can kind of do
stuff still with the 8-inch even from my front yard under the right
conditions. Plus, people sometimes stop
by to see what I’m up to, which is fun.
Although, three nights in a row was killer. I was in super sleep-debt by the end of the
week.
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