Codey737

Points: 2960

Observations: 38

Kudos: 7

NameCodey
LocationKentucky
TimezoneUS/Central
Latitude37.0
Longitude88.0
Altitude121m

Hi I'm Codey, I'm an Amatuer Astronomer from Kentucky! I'm a man of many hats, I can do a bit of IT,astronomy,astrophysics,orbital mechanics,some bit of programing, and a bit of other stuff.

This is my basic setup at the time being:
http://i.imgur.com/VMeE05d.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qlZnxKb.jpg

Telescope: Orion Skyview Pro 120mm EQ
Lenses: 25mm,10mm, 2x barlow
Camera: Nikon D3200
Camera Lenses: Nikon 18-55mm & 55-200mm

Clear
M86

Skyview Pro 120mm EQ
10 points

Took me most of the session to find the Virgo Cluster. My widest lens was a 25mm,still not large enough to see all of the galaxies in this bit of sky. Slight changes in DEC and RA would show more galaxies. They are nothing more than light smudges against the black background that is space. Its quite incredible to see millions of stars,planets,galaxies that are 60 million+ light years away. Light traveled that distance just to be focused in by your telescope and put into your eye.

Other Galaxies seen: M90 M58 M91 M88 M98 M99 Maybe a few others.

Saturn

Skyview Pro 120mm EQ
0 points

For my final view of the night I decided to look at Saturn. It was quite low on the horizon,just barely over the tree tops. Wasn't able to make out much detail due to the atmosphere being soupy and causing it to blur. I was able to see a few moons,Titan stood out the most. I was able to make out Rhea too but it was very faint compared to Titan.

Saturn

Skyview Pro 120mm EQ
0 points

Woke up at 5am to see the eclipse. Just my luck the moon enter the penumbral eclipse before it set. As it went behind the trees I swung over and took a peek at our ringed neighbor. Was able to distinguish the Cassini Division in the rings,wasn't able to do that with my old telescope. Nice and crisp morning to view the early sky.

InstrumentObservations
Naked eye 5
Skyview Pro 120mm EQ 21
Celestron AstroMaster 114EQ 5
Nikon D3200 1