I just couldn’t get a break from the weather these past 2 months! You think that Hawaii, of all places, would have lots of clear blue skies.
NOPE!
I’ve been socked in for the past 2 months. I’m looking out the window as I write this and it is completely clouded over. The few [...]
I’ve been surfing the web looking for information about fixed tripod astrophotography. I can across a website call Astropix ran by Jerry Lodriguss. That website showcased a bunch of constellation pictures that looked incredible. The author said that you don’t really need a tracking mount for these pictures because star trails should not be a [...]
The first telescope sucks, it is time for another one. I spend a few days reading everything I could about starter scopes. The consensus seems to be the Orion XT series. They’re cheap and gives you a good size primary mirror. The down side is that astrophotography will be impossible because it is a dobsonian [...]
I wasn’t going to get into amateur astronomy until I retire. I’ve joined a local astronomy club and went to their star parties. I’ve looked through their telescope and was fairly unimpressed. It wasn’t that their scope was bad, it was that my expectations were out of line with reality. I remember seeing Jupiter and [...]
The goal of this blog is to document all the sweat and tears I had/will go though as I learn about the art of amateur astronomy. I’ve been interested in astronomy all my life but only recently did I get into the hobby. It has only been a couple of months and I’m starting to [...]