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Well it has been a while coming, but the folks at SkyWatcher were able to diagnose the problem they had with my previous Esprit 120 and have shipped me a new replacement scope. I’m very pleased to say that this … Continue reading →

Well I’ve had a chance to take the Esprit 120 on a good test drive and it has been a bit of a disappointment. The new scope sent from SkyWatcher Canada still has strange spikes on the stars and SkyWatcher … Continue reading →

  The day started out normally, warm sunny and promising to be another great summer day. The weather forecast called for a mix of sun and cloud with a chance of showers and clearing in the evening. After doing the … Continue reading →

Ever have one of those nights when things just don’t  seem to start well? Turns out that this was one of those nights. A friend and I  went to our club’s dark sky site to capture a couple of images, … Continue reading →

After a bit of a dry spell a couple of RASC members and I made it out to the St. Croix Observatory (SCO). SCO is the local Centre club observatory with dark skies and a great roll off facility. One … Continue reading →

The evening was surprisingly clear for one with clouds in the forecast so I headed out to SCO, the observatory of the Halifax Centre of the RASC for some time under the stars. As I finished polar aligning several other … Continue reading →

While working on a camera comparison for a RASC Journal column I stumbled across some strange things with Nikon cameras. It seems that filtering is applied to their raw images, producing some strangely clipped histograms in both bias and dark … Continue reading →

Mother Nature finally cooperated with an astronomical event and we had some clear skies that coincided with the September 27’th lunar eclipse. Living next to the ocean and less than an hour away from the world’s highest tides makes lunar … Continue reading →