My telescope has been down for repairs involving a replacement motherboard and power panel. The repairs are now complete and the telescope is as good as new. I performed a bit of solar observing today to verify the new motherboard and power panel functionality.
NEVER stare at the sun or point a telescope at the sun unless you are using a proper, safe aperture solar filter. I use a Thousand Oaks Type 2+ Solar Filter.
8" Meade LX200 and SBIG ST-2000XCM with an SBIG AO-7.
FITS file tonemapping program: https://github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/FITSTonemapper
Comet stacking program: https://github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/CometStacker
Music: Breathe in the Light by Stellardrone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClaiLIHEehs
Music: 'Decoherence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
Photos and time lapse captured with a Google Pixel 6 Pro on 5-10-24
The trails are airplanes flying through the field of view
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yYjOd01EDw
A brief webcast tonight from the final night of the 2016 Chiefland Fall Star Party at the Chiefland Astronomy Village.
Stacked images from night 2:
http://dropcanvas.com/9hyow
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wruv9zlVa4Q
C/2020 T2 Palomar
8" Meade LX200 Classic @ f/6.3
SBIG ST-2000XCM and SBIG AO-7
Image stack aligned on the comet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LX1PywFWSk1FUL-HOhpq9Y90CebVf7WQ/view?usp=sharing
Image stack aligned on both the stars and the comet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x5bHb3WbF7ETXPJdDMxqzZWm7Rn9EP1Z/view?usp=sharing
Music: Northern Lights by Stellardrone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj-diB4qVYY
1.5 hour time lapse of Jupiter with a transit by the moon Io. Recorded with an 8" LX200 Classic and modified Samsung SDC-435 using a 2x barlow. Each frame is a 1 minute segment of video stacked in registax.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnIyMCAYHM
2 hour timelapse of comet Garradd (with some passing cloud cover). Recorded with a Meade LX200 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain and a modified Samsung SDC-435 @ ~f/3. 512x sens-up, AGC High.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCHHVFw-Lxk
1.7 hours of footage. Recorded just hours after its close approach to earth with an 8" LX200 classic and MCHP at f/3 (14 second exposures). This asteroid can be likened in size to the starship Enterprise, possibly as small as Kirk's Enterprise, possibly as large as Picard's Enterprise-E. A few power lines and satellites pass through the field of view during the video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR6cdXQhw_Q
Highlights of my best captures of ISS over the last year, tracked using my SatTraker software, an 8" Meade LX200 Classic, and a 2x Barlow lens.
https://github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker
Footage stabilized by a separate program which also selects the best frames in a rolling window of quality assessment.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSSvz8XsNu0