An amateur astronomer blogger highly interested in aerospace, astronomy, astro equipments and other astro related fields. Robin shares the astronomy enthusiasm with people from kids to seniors.
To stabilize the telescope, tripod is the thing we have to mainly concern about. As far as I know, there are 3 ways to reduce the vibration caused to the tripod.
I shall concern about the most economic and efficiency way first as usual. It’s to place your entire set of telescope on a flat and solid surface. It’s because the solid surface can absorb the vibration well, thus your telescope is stablized. No one will doubt about this. 
These days are always rainy at the night. After the rain has stopped, it always leads to thich clouds hovering above us and causing me unable to do any observation.
Anyway, International Space Station is visible on 14 July and July 16. Let’s take a look of the details.
Continue reading ‘International Space Station Pass-by Detected’
Everyone must have his own schedule to fully utilise his time. Now, I am going to do astrophotography every Saturday. So, please check my www.AstronomyNotes.net every Saturday for the wonderful photos! (If my skill allows
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At the moment, I am trying my best to read all the documents about how to take photo using the Lunar Planetary Imager. I can take a good shot of Moon now. My next target will be the brightest planet in the Solar System, the Jupiter.
On 3 July 2006, the asteroid 2004 XP14 flew past the Earth. It brightened to magnitude 11 on that day.
I didn’t do any observation on this object as my leg was fractured so I was unable to carry the telescope to my garden. Luckily, one amateur shot this object down using his Meade DSI II Pro and Celestron 11 telescope at f/4 as the asteroid passed through the constellation Cassiopeia.
He combined a series of his pictures into a 1.9-megabyte QuickTime movie showing the asteroid’s motion. Credit to him! 
An unpredicted supernova happened on Thursday, 21:46, 6 July 2006! Aren’t we going to die? It was just happened in 1 Lunar Distance! By now, I think you are smart enough to know that this is not a supernova but a Moon.
By using your imagination, you’ll find that the Moon looks like the core of the supernova while the clouds look like the materials the supernova releases. A supernova happens when the life of a star whose mass is greater than our Sun is ending.
Discovery was successfully launched on Wednesday 4 July 2:38 GMT+8. It’s now travelling on 24000km/h to the International Space Station.
According to the previous report, there were foams cracks on the tank but Wayne Hale, the Space Shuttle Programme Manager said yesterday that there was an great improvement over the tank. The camera on the tank would take more images for analysis before it’s left out. The crewmembers will also check their shuttle on the ISS to ensure their safety.
Anyway, the shuttle is planned to be docked on the ISS this Thursday.
After writing quite a number of articles about NASA Discovery Shuttle, I shall back to my main interest in astronomy, the astrophotography.
Left: Craters on the Moon
This time, I am success! I was able to captured the craters on the Moon. It looks so cool. I noticed that even walking on the grass will cause vibration to the telescope. I think I have to consider a tripod bud to reduce the vibration. The photo was taken in colour mode but I am wondering why it isn’t looked in yellowish. I think it’s processed by the Meade Envisage.
Discovery launch is delayed to Wednesday, 4 July 2:38 GMT+8. If it is successful, it is launched on the Independence Day of United States Of America which is quite meaningful. Below is the quote from NASA.
This is not a surprisingly matter though as the sky is not always co-operating with us. The launch is delayed due to the clouds hovering near the launching pad which may cause lightning. The launch is delayed for 24 hours. Therefore, it will be launched on Sunday 5:49PM GMT+8. Let’s bless them!
The space shuttle, Discovery is going to be launched in 10 hours time! There are 7 astronauts in this space shuttle. 2 of them are female astronauts.
The crew of space shuttle Discovery will continue to test new equipment and procedures that increase the safety of space shuttles during the STS-121 mission to the International Space Station. It also will perform maintenance on the space station and deliver more supplies and cargo for future station expansion.
This mission is to carry on analysis of safety improvements that debuted on the Return to Flight mission, STS-114, and build upon those tests.
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