No observing tonight unless I arrive late

I'm heading out to a different location to observe tonight.


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Had a great time looking at the sun today

Met with Harold and we were out there for three hours or more. We looked at the sun and did some test photos and frame grabs using the canon camera and the Stellacam.

I can't pit an image here at this time but I will later in another post.

We found the very high magnification of hr Stellacam on the c14 with the hydrogen alpha showed a lot of dust specs on in the optical path.

We turned the filter, Renee the t-filter adapter, changes and rotated the diagonal and the camera, the dust specs remained. In place. It wasn't dust on the surface as the offset 4 inch filter was rotated in a different position over the front of the telescope.

There must be dust on the internal surface of the primary or secondary surface. Considering we were using about 800 power it's probably something we should expect to run into.




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Solar observing from 3pm until ?

Solar observing with a huge new temporary ha solar setup at HJRO in 5 minutes. This is an 8 inch aperture hydrogen alpha setup Harold is bringing by.


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We will be open this Friday night at 9:30pm

We will be open tonight for observing.

Children need to bring their parents as we cannot give tours unless you are accompanied with a guardian.




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We are out observing tonight if anyone wants to show up

Tonight we will be open until 2am or possibly 2:30am


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At old Chicago pizza looking at the moon

Looked at the moon an Saturn today at old Chicago pizza


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At almost 500 power Jupiter showed detail via iPhone

Video clip with iPhone looking at Jupiter through the C14 at Hector J Robinson observatory this morning.

Not bad considering we are looking through almost 500 power. Truthfully it looked a lot different through the eyepiece. You could see detail like this at lower power, but the higher power like this 8mm eyepiece looked fuzzy to the naked eye.

The iPhone needs a big image in the eyepiece to get a good exposure. Other cameras are much better than the iPhone for this kind of thing.

But I only had my iPhone out last night so I did the best I could with that phone.


The music was Pandora radio playing a Miles Davis jazz channel. We don't normally play music when others visit, I had mucus out there because I was alone.

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