As a beginner in astronomy, I was taken aback by all the catalogs I came across. It turns out that just about everything you can see in the sky is in some catalog. There’s...
Monthly Archive: February 2019
Slooh Solar Cam
Slooh.com offers its members eight telescopes to use to image the sky. Among the telescopes is the Slooh.com Solar telescope located in the Canary Islands. This image was taken on February 6, 2019 using...
Jupiter
This is Jupiter as imaged using the Slooh.com Canary Four Solar System telescope in July 2018. This image is right from the telescope and I haven’t modified it in any way. Jupiter is the...
NGC 891
This is an image of NGC 891, or the Silver Sliver, as processed by Slooh.com. The image was actually taken by Slooh.com member KeithS but I piggybacked his mission to be able to get...
How Much Do You Have To Spend To Get A Great Astro Image?
As a beginner in astronomy, the top two questions you’ll get asked are, “What do you want to observe?” and “How much do you have to spend?”. The fact is that many of the...
Basic Astronomy Isn’t That Hard….But….
There are a lot of articles and videos for beginning astronomy that explain the basics of astronomy. Those articles and videos list a whole slew of things you need to know like the celestial...
Not Sure Which Telescope To Buy?
You’re interested in the night sky and have seen some amazing photos online. Now you want to get right into the hobby of astronomy and have decided to get your own telescope, but the...
Astronomy Beginner’s Book
Astronomy is the study of the stars, planets, galaxies, comets, asteroids and so much more. It’s a vast topic that’s easily accessible because all you really need to get started is your curiosity and...
Asteroid 6478 Gault
This unusual object is an asteroid called 6478 Gault. It’s unusual because it has a tail and an asteroid doesn’t usually have a tail. It’s thought this asteroid collided with something some time around...
NGC 5128
This is NGC 5128, or Centaurus A, as seen from the Slooh.com Chile telescope in April 2016. I created this image from four observations. This object is visible from the southern hemisphere and the...
