Archive for September, 2007

Focus on…focusing

Monday, September 24th, 2007 at 10:51 am

I’ve been ill for a while and unable to observe, but I took delivery of a Moonlite Focuser with a focus motor and controller. Since I drive a Mac, the provided ASCOM interface for the controller doesn’t work for my setup, and I spent a little time putting a program together to run the controller. [...]

Blue snowball

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 at 10:38 am

The Blue Snowball is a little puffball of gas surrounding a central star in the constellation of Andromeda. In the New General Catalog it’s number 7662, so a short designation is NGC7662. It’s also C22 in Patrick Moore’s Caldwell catalog. You would never mistake this for a comet so it didn’t appear in Messier’s catalog [...]