Astronomical – Page 9 – Nathan Brandt Astrophotography

Hydrogen Alpha Mosaic – Test Framing w/ the Moon for scale

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Jul 072014

It’s that time of year when Cygnus rises high over head and displays a multitude of nebulous treasure. This mosaic is only a portion of the Cygnus constellation but represents a large patch of sky almost 9 x 9 degrees. This is only a test framing as I create a game plan for a summer long imaging project. For a sense of scale, I have included a gibbous moon which was not part of the original image as well as a full scale crop of the Crescent Nebula, bottom right, to show the full size scale of the original 83 megapixel image.

Cygnus Mosaic in Hydrogen Alpha FSQ-106ED Apogee U16 AP900GTO Baader Ha Narrowband Filter 9x20min total exposure

AAAP at the Renaissance Hotel

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Jun 282014

Astrophotography at the Three Rivers Arts Fest – Bill Snyder

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Jun 172014

Wagman Observatory – Privy Planning

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Jun 152014

The layout of the pads, sidewalks, and privy location at Wagman Observatory has been completed and drawn out on the grass.

: Pad outside main entrance

: Sidewalk for handicap access to privy

: Sidewalk connecting to Privy

: Looking back towards where the Privy will be

: Privy Location

: Electric

: Privy Location

: Stone delivery in prep for privy

Wagman Observatory – 6/14/2014

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Jun 152014

We had a few good meteors that we saw last night although I captured only one of the small ones that nobody else saw.

Tom doing his thing and showing us the night sky.

Moonrise over the hill

Greene County 5/31/2014

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Jun 012014

Three AAAP members were preset at the Greene County Observing Site Saturday night. It turned out to be a pretty decent night.

Crescent Moon with Earth Shine and Jupiter

Greene County Site Looking South at the Summer Milky Way. Light pollution is more prominent here now than in past years.

Additional Information:

The area around the Greene County Observing Site has seen a lot of new industry construction; most of it related to the Marcellus Shale boom. Take a look at the Google Map view of all the new light sources that weren’t there 3 years ago. About 70% are from the last year alone. #1 is one of the brightest lights seen in the above Southern Milky Way shot.

IC 1848 – Open Cluster in the Soul Nebula

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May 142014

And to put it into a little broader perspective here’s a wider field view which starts to show the Heart Nebula.

Mount: AP900GTO3
Scope: Tak FSQ-106ED
CCD: Apogee Alta U16
Filters: Baader Ha, O[III], S[II]
MMOAG OAG w/ sbig st-i guider
Total Exposure 5 hours

A different Crop

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Apr 222014

I thought it would be fun to take an older image, reprocess it, and crop into smaller sections that would put a new spin on a very commonly imaged object. Hope you like them. I won’t reveal what the object is until later.

4/8/2014 – Waxing Gibbous Moon

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Apr 082014

Playing around with a Stellarvue SVQ100 Astrograph with a Lumenera Lu070 monochrome video camera and a 5X Televue Powermate tonight. A quick stack and sharpen to see what I got. They need some more time processing but doesn’t look too bad for an astrograph.