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Observation notes (with equipment details), photos, sketches, reviews, software tips, random thoughts, by an amateur astronomer.
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- viewed lost doubles (Blue Mountains)
- looking north (Blue Mountains)
- boo!
- better in the north
- checked WDS on HD 133389
- log notes postmortem
- read the NTSB report
- wrong red
- updated double stars life list
- built cable
- right to copy
- ordered red film
- watched Soyuz arrival
- Binary Universe: SkySafari
- multi-tasking night (Blue Mountains)
- pouring in (Blue Mountains)
- other than the Sun (Blue Mountains)
- cleaned and tightened
- thanks all around
- 1.5 hours +
- caught a break (Blue Mountains)
- see the web team
- inspected the refractor
- took in the spots (Blue Mountains)
- repaired SBIG 11000
- operated the Optec remotely
- class is in
- advised the members
- Jim announced his DIY book
- short session in bad seeing (Blue Mountains)
- imaged HD 133389 (Blue Mountains)
- received Dan's adapter
- the Eastern Veil
- time warp
- sorted the double star shots
- took a Windsor call
- prepared CAO report
- ringed planet, binaries, comet, and quasar (Blue M...
- three times (Blue Mountains)
- spotted 3C 332 (Blue Mountains)
- iceberg blue and warm orange (Blue Mountains)
- lost notes from 14th
- found the clamp
- asked if we had the Optec cable
- matters of the heart
- compared BYN and BYE
- considered GBO space
- viewed Sol (Blue Mountains)
- need to raise the dish
- performed full double star imaging run
- shot Rasalgethi (Blue Mountains)
- the Sun through a clear band (Blue Mountains)
- first local pick-up
- shot biases and flats
- powered the adapter
- Google doodle on Pluto
- Nicole and Alan
- new Pluto data
- Pluto now!
- Pluto moved (Blue Mountains)
- shot darks
- improved Library workspace
- council meeting confirmed
- more deets please
- searched the black pic
- one dog (Blue Mountains)
- LED badge on a boat!
- assessed the fiber optic extension
- fixed the lamps
- fixed the comet crash
- cut a post
- started the room plan
- checked her profile
- resolved IP conflicts
- found UFRaw
- updated shared computer
- fixed wrap
- made an imaging plan
- noodled on doubles
- considered double star targets
- updated the tags
- considered flyovers
- Nicole to JHU
- sent Nicole my first pic
- recommended baader
- found the sidereal key
- Pluto in SkyTools
- Pluto as a star
- quick shot of Pluto (Blue Mountains)
- a new renter
- Pluto and some doubles (Blue Mountains)
- plate-solved the field
- located the centre of the galaxy
- dimmers on a boat
- tried powering the LX 200
- knock knock
- checked the little wedge
- vacation at the observatory
- GA photos up
- checked the path
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Label Cloud
Android
Apogee
Arp
art
asterisms
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aurora
baader planetarium
Backyard EOS
beer
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Bisque
Boeing
books
Caldwell
camping
Canon
Cartes du Ciel
Celestron
Ceres
charts and atlases
collimation
cometary globules
comets
constellations
Coronado
cosmology
CSA
dark adaptation
dark nebulae
DDO
dew removal
didn't
DIY
double stars
Edmund Scientific
education
emission nebulae
equipment
error
ESA
exoplanets
friends and family
fun
galaxies
globular clusters
GSO
hack
health
iOptron
ISRO
JAXA
JDSO
Juno
Jupiter
Kendrick
kitty
light pollution
log
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macro
magazines
MallinCam
Mars
Meade
Mercury
Messier
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micro
Milky Way
Moon
myths
naked
NASA
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NGC
Nikon
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NYAA
occultation
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Orbital
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outreach
Pallas
Paramount
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photography
planetary nebulae
planets
planning
Pluto
power
Psion
quasar
Questar
radio astronomy
RASC
reflection nebulae
remote
repair
Roscosmos
Saturn
SBIG
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SF (sci-fi)
sketching
Sky-Watcher
SkySafari
SkyTools
software
solar
SpaceX
Starmaster
Starry Night
stars
Stellarium
supernova remnants
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Takumar
Tele Vue
telescope
TheSky
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Venus
Vesta
Virgin Galactic
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Williams Optics
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