Astronomy Adventure – Moon Craters
Crater Schickard is the large crater near the median and Crater Phocylides is to its left. In between is the Crater...
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Astronomy Adventure – Messier 11
Messier 11, also known as the Wild Duck cluster, is an open cluster in the constellation Scutum. While visually resembling many...
Astronomy Adventure – IC 4665, A Disperse Open Cluster
IC 4665 is a pretty widely dispersed open cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is a naked-eye object from a dark...
Astronomy Adventure – Saturn
It has been an horrendous month for astronomy – incredibly humid, lots of rain, and cloudy almost every night. Mars reached...
Astronomy Adventure – Afocal Astrophotography
In response to my series on globular clusters, a reader asked just how difficult these kinds of astrophotos are to take....
Astronomy Adventure – Messier 7, the Ptolemy Cluster
Messier 7 is also known as the Ptolemy cluster because it was described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy who also...
Astronomy Adventure – Messier 6, The Butterfly Cluster
Messier 6, also know as the Butterfly Cluster, is an open cluster in the constellation Scorpius. It’s possible that this cluster...
Astronomy Adventure – Globular Clusters – Messier 13
Scope: Starblast 4.5; tracking on Magnification: ~30x Camera: iPhone6 using NightCap Pro; ISO 8000;
Astronomy Adventure – Globular Clusters – Messier 69
Scope: Starblast 4.5; tracking on Magnification: ~30x Camera: iPhone6 using NightCap Pro; ISO 8000;
Astronomy Adventure – Globular Clusters – Messier 62
Scope: Starblast 4.5; tracking on Magnification: ~30x Camera: iPhone6 using NightCap Pro; ISO 8000;