Confessions of a Frustrated Amateur Astronomer

Follow me into the depths of suffering and frustrations that is amateur astronomy

Entries Tagged ‘Rants’

The most boring 2 months ever

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 [...]

How do they do that!?

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 [...]

My second telescope

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 [...]

The first post

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 [...]

  

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