Tag: space
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My Telescope Lives! My New Image of M33
If you have wondered why I haven’t posted any of my astrophotography in a long time, its because between telescope hardware issues and software issues, my observatory has been offline for I think around 2 years at least. Well, as of last night, its now 100% operational again! After making some modifications to my telescope…
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My Shot of the Ring Nebula aka M57
It has been a LONG time since I have shared any of my astrophotography shots. The main reason for that is that my telescope was out of commission for a couple of years. However, not too long ago I finally got it up and running again. Of course between life and the weather, I haven’t…
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My Shots Of The Aurora Borealis
As I’m sure many of you got to experience over the weekend, I had the great fortune of seeing the Aurora Borealis aka Northern Lights for the first time on Friday evening. And being an amateur astrophotographer, I couldn’t help myself and had to snap at least a couple pictures while I had the opportunity.…
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I Own A Martian Meteorite!
Its not often I get to post about something geeky and really cool that I own but today is a special occasion because I now own a piece of Mars after winning a French Martian meteorite auction! For years, I have wanted to own pieces of other celestial bodies besides Earth and today my collection…
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Gingerbread USS Defiant from Star Trek Deep Space Nine
I’m alive! I know it has been some months since I have posted anything but sometimes life can be a mess (surgery on my back, got diagnosed with cancer and trying to get my mom into a nursing home to name a few things). I could talk about that stuff at length and maybe at…
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My Latest Astrophoto: M82 – The Cigar Galaxy
As I promised in my last post about the recent downtime that GGN has suffered, I do have a couple of new astrophotos to share with all of you! I’ve decided to attempt a reprocess of one of them because I didn’t like how it turned out so its not quite ready yet but I…