The Tardis Observatory

12-10-2020 M42-M43 Great Orion Nebula: My brother Richard bought me an Oxygen III Filter for my Telescope for Christmas. The filter is supposed to filter out the light that Occludes Nebula. It's supposed to make them more clear and vivid! All it did was block the Colors from the Nebula and made it look green! It made the nebula look like an Angry Donald Duck with Trump's Hair! I'm very disappointed! So I took the filter out and took a normal picture of the Nebula. What a difference!

12-9-2020 Searching for Eric's Star: I took 31 photos, over 2 hours of possible stars in the area where "Eric's Star" is located. Not one of them is a match! It's like looking for a needle in a pile of Needles! If you take the time to look at them all, they are really pretty. "Quitters never win and winners never quit"!

12-8-2020 Sol: Sunspot AR2790 Yesterday, the relatively small spot unleashed a C7-class solar flare.

Tonight's Full moon as a Negative. It looks like an Alien World!

12-7-2020 M76 M76 Little Dumbbell: It's been almost a year since I have photographed M76. I have to say, these pictures are much better. Maybe because the sky is so clear now with the colder weather. Whatever the reason, I am very happy with the results.

A short video of the 2 Sunspots

10-6-2020 Mars Closest Approach. We won't see Mars this close again for 15 years! This is the best picture I could get with my scope. I was hoping for better!

I was looking for "Eric's Star again last night. I missed it again! The Corrordince I was given for it is either wrong or my telescope is putting me too far to the Right. I will keep trying until I find it! I know it is a little above the Star Caph in the constellation Cassiopeia. This star is in the center of my photograph is HP 224014.

A Pulsar type Neutron Star

Mars wasn't close enough to the Moon to photograph them together but I did get some good shots of them Seperatly.

9-7-2020 Mars: I also took these pictures days ago. I have been crazy busy preparing to start serving in the Missouri Militia. These pictures are the best I can do. I have tried everything to sharpen my images and nothing seems to help. I used a 13% Lunar Filter to darken the image so I can take longer exposures. That helped some but it is still very fuzzy!

I took these photos on 9-7-2020 and never posted them. I haven't been able to get out and do any observing recently because of bad weather conditions. Anyway, here they are.

Get your Telescopes out!

9-8-2020 Searching for M101: I could not find M101 last night so I took a picture of the region of space where my telescope said it was located to see how far off my alignment was. According to Astrometry.net, I missed it by a "Parsack"! I'm starting to think that the Aluminum Dome on my Observatory may be interfering with the GPS signal and throwing off my alignment!

9-8-2020 M51-Whirlpool Galaxy: This is not my first time photographing these colliding Galaxies but I'm always trying to get better sharper photos. I managed to get 20 second long exposures of M51 without the images stretching. These Galaxies have a Visibility rating of 8.5, meaning it was really hard to see through my telescope! Anything past a 10 is almost impossible to see with my 12 Inch Scope.

9-5-2020 M57-The Ring Nebula: I have photographed this Nebula many times before but this time it was very high in the sky and very clear making for some sharper Images plus I cropped it so you can see it close up.

9-5-2020 M103: I had posted photos of M103 on 8-19-2020 but I realize the pictures were not on target. This is a dense field of stars and it was easy to mistake one group of stars for the actual M103 Star Cluster.

M33 "Panspermia". This is how some scientists think life came to Earth and other planets. This might explain the existence of Nancy Pelosi!

8-25-2020 Mars: I used the same 13% Lunar filter to try and ger better detail of Mars but this is all I get. It may be that Mars is having its Global Dust storm and there is nothing to see? Has anyone else been able to get better images of Mars?