The Rose of Winter
The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros. Imaged on iTelescope T20, a 106mm Takahashi refractor with an SBIG STL-11000 camera by taking…
Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Astronomy Camera
The camera is on the telescope ready to test! I’ve mounted the RpiHQ camera on a Raspberry Pi case with…
Observatory Roof Renovation
Since my observatory run-off roof hasn’t really changed since it was built in 2002, it needs some remedial work. That’s…
Building the Poor Man’s Star Analyzer (PMSA) Spectrograph
After attending the Sacramento Mountain Spectroscopy Workshop last year and getting excited about doing spectroscopy on my own telescope, I’ve…
New Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Testing
The Raspberry Pi camera modules have been around for quite a while but the latest model is of real interest…
Raspberry Pi Camera evaluation for Astronomy
While my allsky camera (www.gordtulloch.com/allsky) is working fantastically well, I’m also looking at making some projects that need a camera…
New Bright Comet in July
Comet NEOWISE C/2020 F3 looks like it might put on an interesting show in July/August! Perihelion is on July 3,…
Imaging Workstation
The new Allsky Camera has a really nice additional use – finding sucker holes to take pictures through! Here you…
Smoke Ring in the Sky
M57, or the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The tiny white dot…
M13 At the Solstice
Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation…