I had a little while today to blow the dust off the old solarscope and try to do do a little imaging. After checking out the sun visually I decided to start doing a sweep of the sun with my Meade Electronic Eyepiece and do a video of the many prominences around it. Then I switched to my DSLR and shot many frames of the the whole disk and downloading it directly to my … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2010
Signs leading the way to Space Park
One last posting about Space Park in Titusville, Florida. We knew we were getting close when we passed these two street signs. I am sure there is a lot more hidden Space Gems throughout Titusville if one had time to explore a little. … [Read more...]
Launching or Landing, Space Park is the place to watch it all
After watching the incredible landing of STS-131 last month from Space Park in Titusville, Florida I decided it was certainly worth a blog about the city park dedicated to man's race into space. I could go into the history and development of the park throughout the years, but I will leave that to these fine websites to check out. Official website of Titusville, Florida … [Read more...]
International Space Station fly over image from May 14, 2010
I managed to get out on Friday night and take a shot at imaging the ISS again as it flew close (within 100 miles) to my town of Marlborough, Connecticut. Right on time it appeared in the Northwest as a dim reddish star. Getting brighter by the second the ISS brightened to a magnitude of -3.2 as it passed to the south of my location basically passing over New York … [Read more...]
Solar Halo over Hartford
While going out to my car this afternoon to get some lunch I noticed a great looking, complete solar halo right at noon time. For a bonus, I also noticed a Circumhorizon arc just below it. At first not knowing the proper name of the arc below the sun I did some quick research online and found this great website called Atmospheric Optics. It is a great reference sight for … [Read more...]