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Archives for April 2011

The Discipline of Solar Astrophotography

April 27, 2011 by CtCameraEye Leave a Comment

There are so many factors that go into solar astrophotography. It is understandable that very, very few people try to do it. Wind, heat, humidity, seeing conditions, and solar activity are just the start. Knowing how to capture the images is another factor. By which type of recording device, and finally how to process them. There are many amateur astrophotographers out here … [Read more...]

CtCameraEye visits North Carolina toronado devestation

April 24, 2011 by CtCameraEye Leave a Comment

On the way back from a vacation in Florida I managed to view the devestation of the string of toronados that destroyed hundreds of buildings, injured scores of people, and killed 21 on April 18. Just off of I-95 in central North Carolina is the town of Dunn. Once the home for over a hundred residents of the Cedar Creek Mobile Home Park. Now, it's just a wasteland of several … [Read more...]

Nice Solar Prominence

April 13, 2011 by CtCameraEye Leave a Comment

I was out the other day shooting some solar video that I had totally forgot about till today. A nice rainy day seemed to be perfect to spend some seroius time working on an image out of that video. Here you go! A combination of 380 video frames stacked in Registax, color added in Photoshop. The sun is certainly picking up in action this year. … [Read more...]

Google celebrates first man in space anniversary

April 12, 2011 by CtCameraEye Leave a Comment

From NASA: April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. Scientific … [Read more...]

The sun today 4-3-11 – Lots of Prominences

April 3, 2011 by CtCameraEye 1 Comment

A turbulent atmosphere left me no choice except to shoot some prominences on todays sun. Enjoy your closest star! … [Read more...]

New Britain Walnut Hill Park Book

I have a few dozen copies of my latest Book "The Life and Times of Walnut Hill Park" from its second printing still available.

Please contact me at achaniewski@comcast.net for more information about ordering the book!

Welcome

You have found the new CtCameraEye website. Updated from my old blog site that I had for over six years. A lot has changed over that time, and the new site here will show you many of the new places where I have been and what I have accomplished. A better blog site to keep in touch with you all, and finally, a new project that I have been working on for the past year which I will be announcing in the next few months. Stay tuned a lot of neat stuff will be happening!
Alan

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Mercury Transit

May 10, 2016 By CtCameraEye Leave a Comment

        It was about 10 years since I saw the last Transit of Mercury across the face of sun. The last time I had a lot of time to get set up and practice my exposures on the sun. This year I was working and was only able to get the last hour […]

Checking out the moon

April 26, 2016 By CtCameraEye Leave a Comment

Abry Jordan looking at the moon at a Sidewalk Astronomy session held this month in Marlborough, Ct.

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