Super moon

tonight will be a Super Perigee Moon! so check it out! they say it's the biggest full Moon in 18 years. pretty cool.

hopefully its clear tonight! :-D

NASA article

CS!

new images

new images of the sun posted from February 15, 2011

My Astro photos

active sun

The sun has been pretty active the past week. AR 11045 has gotten pretty big. Now there are two more AR coming out from the eastern limb. AR 11046 and 11047. and before that another one just went out of sight on the western limb. AR 11046 and 11047 are both smaller. But AR 11045 is pretty big. i would go out and take some pictures but we still have alot of snow on the ground.

Clear skies!



P.S. because of the snow on the ground i haven't been able to use the new Telrad finder. Hopefully i'll be able to take out the telescope soon!!

New..

New piece of Equipment! what could it be!!! check it out in my equipment blog!

Clear skies!

perigee Moon

Perigee Moon this Friday. It's the biggest full Moon of 2010. it will be 14% wider and 30% brighter than normal full Moons.

here is a photo i took of last years Perigee Moon. first one is a normal full moon the second is the
Perigee Moon.

Normal


Perigee

click on image to enlarge

CS!

Last night i didn't get to go out and image Mars. :-(

Mars

Its Mars tonight people!!! Tonight Mars will look the biggest from 2008 to 2014. The Red Planet is only 99 million km away tonight. So get the telescope out tonight! Look east after sunset the bright orange star is Mars!

If it stays clear i will be going out!! I'll post any pictures i take!

sunspot images

sunspot images up in my astro-photo blog from yesterday.

CLEAR SKIES!

sunspot

big sunspot has emerged. AR 11040 has grown very fast. it is 10 times wider than the earth .

I'm probably going to go out tomorrow and image it. hopefully it gets bigger.

Mars images and last night.

Just posted some of my mars images from last night. warning they aren't that good. this was my first time imaging mars! they are in my astro-photo blog

Last night was nice and cold very cold. I went out at 12:00a.m and set everything up. I aligned the telescope was pretty easy and went to mars. I images for awhile and took a look at the seven sisters (M45) and the Orion nebula. they both looked nice. for around here it seemed like there were alot of stars. it was very pretty!

The telescope worked great. The only thing i had a problem with was my dumb little finder scope. Its a little 8x21mm peace of crap. I want to get a new one like the GSO Multi-Target Red Dot Finder. I had that one for my old telescope and loved it, but sold it with the Orion 90mm. I'm just not sure how i would put it on the Meade etx-125. I'm not really comfortable making holes in the tube.

The Mount was great. I used something i never used before with this mount ( Meade lxd55) the park the telescope. I know this is goofy, but when i was packing the stuff away i saw the park the scope option so i pushed enter and it put it self back to the home position. I thought that was cool i always did it and its hard when its dark to get it to the right spot. The align worked good. tracking was good!

It was a nice night. very cold, but still was nice to get out under the stars again!

I hope you all have Clear Skies!

Mars tonight

I will be going out tonight around 12:00 a.m. to get images of Mars and to view some cool stuff! :-)
hopefully it will stay clear!!

I will post pictures sometime tomorrow!