Starstruck

Low shots are difficult – there’s usually a shimmer in the air at low levels, and astronomical images tend to be a little blurry. Every now and then, though, things come together nicely, and you get results like this:

Jupiter, Europa, and a very faint Callisto, 29 June 2007, 11.28 pm EDT
North is up. FLT-110, 5x [...]

New page link (at right side of the page) to Mac astronomy related software, with some additional notes on software known to work under Parallels on Intel Macs.

At my location Jupiter barely clears 24° above the horizon right now. My lower southern limit is somewhere around 23° or 23°, so there’s not much room to see the planet, and besides which I’m viewing through the murk of the Toronto air-mass. This is a much processed view through the 110 mm with a [...]

Last week a thunderstorm rolled over the house, and we lost power for a half hour or so. Most of the computers in the house are on UPS’s and shut down properly, but for some reason I neglected to put the router and DSL modem on a UPS, so they simply cut out.

When the power [...]