Tag: hobby
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Another New Astrophoto! The Dumbbell Nebula!
When it comes to astrophotography, there are hard to shoot nebulas and easy to shoot nebulas and today’s post features on of the easy ones. Thanks to an incredibly rare night of perfect conditions, I spent a night in my observatory shooting whatever I could and as part of that sprint, I shot Messier 27…
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Stop Motion LEGO Millennium Falcon Build
First of all, I am alive! I know its been over a month and a half since I have posted anything but this new job is kind of exhausting mentally so I haven’t felt up to posting cool things. However, when I saw this stop motion LEGO Millennium Falcon build video that makes it look…
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My Latest Astrophoto: The Crab Nebula! (M1)
You guys have told me just how much you love when I post my astrophotography shots and since I finally managed to get back out in my observatory the other night for the first time in months, I thought I would share my latest results with you guys. My evening resulted in two rather decent…
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My Latest Astrophoto: Spiral Galaxy M63
It seems pretty rare for me to be lucky enough to get a break in the clouds lately so the other night when we actually had a clear night with great skies, I just had to open up the observatory and do some astrophotography! For this particular evening, my target was the spiral galaxy M63.…
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Astrophotography Update: I Have An Observatory!
For those of you that have been around here for a long time despite my year plus absence or at least like Global Geek News on Facebook, you know that my primary hobby is astrophotography. I’ve written many posts in the past showing some of the pictures I have taken and discussing the equipment I…
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My Telescope Setup for Astrophotography
With my astrophotography posts on here as well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Discord, Reddit and other places, I always get questions about my telescope setup that I use for my astrophotos. So, I decided to write a post that I will hopefully keep updated with any new changes to my setup that I can point…