Monthly Archive for 一月, 2009

7 Jan 08 – Whoops, the title is self-explaining enough. When I checked the date of my Autostar #497, the last observing date is 29 Nov 2008. Worse, I was not doing any serious observing that night. I just showed some objects to my club members so that they had a clue what does [insert any celestial body] look like. My last serious observing was around July, remember I imaged the Jupiter?

Yesterday was a breezy night. I was getting all my gears ready for the Moon and the cloud slipped in. The good news was that the wind was so fstrong that the large cloud which spanned the north and western sky was not a problem. I just need the patience.

I’ve recorded 4 piles of images in .AVI format at 384MB each. I’ve yet to process them with Registax V4. Right after the imaging session, I did visual observing. The moon glow was still quite strong so the  result was not that good compare to a new moon night.

Thanks to the Autostar #497 excellent Tonight Best guided tour, I observed the celestial bodies below.

• Great Orion Nebula (as stunning as usual)
• Saturn (the ring almost disappears!)
• M35
• M36-38 (open clusters in Auriga)
• Beehive Cluster (Praesepe, M44)
• M79
• M68
• Spindle Galaxy (elongated star patch)
• Eta Carinae (remnant of supernova)
• Moon (earth’s only sibling)
• Sirius (the brightest star)
• Canopus (the old man star)

Did I say I love blogging? I feel so relieved after I made a post.