Cloudy Sky

Understanding cloudy sky requires examining multiple perspectives and considerations. I hardly need to tell amateur astronomers that light pollution is a real problem for our hobby. We go to dark sites to observe for two reasons. One is to get away from sky glow, the generalized illuminated haze that hides all but the brightest stars and obscures most deep sky objects. The other is to avoid ground-level sources of glare from exterior lighting, car headlights, and other point ...

Takahashi Sky 90 apochromatic refractor - Cloudy Nights. Sky 90 Apochromatic refractor with dew shield retracted –all photos by Kevin Berwick I recently bought a Takahashi Sky 90 telescope and have being using it for around 6 months now. Let me say at this point that I have no undisclosed interest in the vendor or product reviewed here and I purchased ...

Deep Sky - Cloudy Nights. M13 By Djennings 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Page 1 of 84 All Activity Home Gallery Astrophotography Gallery Deep Sky Additionally, new All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky - Cloudy Nights. This perspective suggests that, page 1 of 43 - New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky - posted in Vendor and Group Announcements: I just wanted to make a quick announcement about the All Sky camera management software I have been working on.

Like many others, when I setup my first All Sky camera, I used Thomas Jacquins fantastic allsky software. It's important to note that, it works very well, obviously. My first camera was a ASI290MM, but ... Comparison of the Boltwood II and Sky Alert Cloud Sensors.

From another angle, a feature they have that’s normally not part of a consumer level weather station is the ability to measure the sky temperature, and derive the presence of clouds. This is done by comparing the ambient air temperature with the sky ambient temperature, performing the necessary math, and presenting the user with an indication of cloud cover. Getting Started in Astrophotography using a Webcam - Cloudy Nights. Astrophotography is a very difficult subject in the past, but it has becoming easy. In this article, we introduce one of the easiest and cheapest ways to take images of the night sky.

Building on this, webcam Imaging Webcam is a small digital video camera used for video conferencing. They have been designed withou... Takahashi Sky 90 (aka, FCL-90) - Cloudy Nights. Takahashi Builds a Faster Doublet: When building its earlier doublets, Takahashi remained conservative in its offerings, staying with relatively 'slow' focal ratios to avoid problems with spurious color. Moreover, the "FC" series of fluorite doublets were typically f/8 refractors (and, in one instance - th...

Sky-Watcher Pro 100ED - 100mm - 110mm Refractors - Cloudy Nights. The Sky-Watcher Pro 100ED APO Refractor By Dave Ponder I love refractors! My first scope back in the 70s was an RV-6, which was an excellent scope in its own right, but I always longed for a nice refractor.

To this day, I still like to gaze over Unitron advertisements in my very old S&T mags from... Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi: GoTo, Portable, and Astrophoto ....