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Phil's Astronomy Blog
http://theguvnah.blogspot.com
Join Phil as he delves into astronomy and astrophotography. This year, he's writing a series of astronomy articles for beginners while taking a more serious plunge into astrophotography.
- Added on: Mar 24th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Phil Ostroff
- Listed in: Space Photo Blogs
- Tags: astronomy astrophotography astronomy for beginners astronomy articles
Recent Posts
2009 International Year of Astronomy - Personal Review
Okay, well, one more post for the year!2009 was marked as the International Year of Astronomy, and I believe this worked well to popularize and promote both amateur and professional astronomy overall. It seemed that professional organizations were mo...
Going to be quiet for a while...
No more astronomy for me for the rest of the year. The holiday season is approaching, and we're off to the UK for two weeks. I am going to try to see the Greenwich Observatory in London and will post some photos of it here when I get back.To all, hop...
Leonids - Close But No Cigar!
Ahh, we were blessed with very clear, crisp skies over night, just in time for the peak of the Leonid meteor shower. I had a relatively early night and woke up at 2:00am. Throwing on some thermals and two layers of clothes, I jumped in the car with m...
Problem with Articles
I just realized that a couple of my astronomy articles (top right of the Blog) were de-activated thanks to the demise of Geocities. Therefore, I have uploaded the documents to ZohoViewer and they are all now accessible. There are some white space gap...
Jupiter and Europa
Here's a shot from tonight. Seeing was supposed to be 5/5 according to Skyclock, but my raw .AVI were bouncing around like crazy. Below is the best shot of the night. The GRS stands our clearly, as does what I think is GRS junior literally right next...
More Imaging Fun with Jupiter
Tonight, the seeing was better than last night. Below are a couple of images I took while messing with different K3CCDTools settings...Below is my attempt to try and capture Jupiter with Io and Ganymede (from left to right). When I adjusted the setti...
