Archive for the ‘Astronomy’ Category

The SkyShed Pod arrives!

The SkyShed Pod odyssey has ended! On Thursday, July 5th, a Old Dominion freight truck pulled up in front of my house and disgorged many large cardboard boxes containing the POD. Fortunately, all contents arrived in good order and without damage. After passing the large boxes off to local children (box forts!), construction of the [...]

July 21, 2007   Posted in: Astronomy  Comments Closed

My SkyPod XL3 ships!

Received the news I’ve been waiting for from Wayne of SkyShed. My POD has shipped! Apparently Wayne has had assorted problems with parts suppliers, probably not unusual for a new product. With any luck the POD will arrive before the Table Mountain Star party. I just finished upgrading the solar panels on my Lazy Daze [...]

June 24, 2007   Posted in: Astronomy  Comments Closed

SkyPod Odyssey continues …

While I wait for Wayne Parker and SkyShed to finish my XL3 pod (a 3 pod bay version) there’s plenty to do. One of the major projects is the installation of a 100′ network cable out to the pod’s location. The install required digging a trench and laying a underground conduit for the cable. One [...]

April 21, 2007   Posted in: Astronomy  Comments Closed

The SkyPOD odyssey begins…

Actually the odyssey to bring a SkyShed POD began in June 2006 when I saw the first POD ad on AstroMart. That was the beginning of a long wait for the POD to go into production. Well the wait ended on April 3rd and I now have one on order I’ll be blogging a bit [...]

April 6, 2007   Posted in: Astronomy  No Comments

A Year in the Life of the Universe — Robert Gendler’s stunning new astrophotography book

All I can say is WOW! Robert Gendler’s new book is a piece of work! For those of you who haven’t heard of Robert Gendler just take a peak at the year end photo specials that the astronomy magazines publish. He’s sure to be in there. His work is also featured frequenty on the Astronomy [...]

February 27, 2007   Posted in: Astronomy  Comments Closed

Televue Paracorr

Description of Televue’s Paracorr. Make your inexpensive reflector perform like an instrument costing thousands more.

December 21, 2006   Posted in: Astronomy, Eyepieces  Comments Closed

Dark Sky Sites — Greenwater, WA

Description of the Greenwater, WA area for dark sky astronomy use.

November 8, 2006   Posted in: Astronomy, Dark Sky Sites  One Comment

The New Astro Zone System for Astro Imaging

Ever wanted a thorough step-by-step guide to processing your astrophotographs in Adobe Photoshop, well Ron Wodaski just answered your prayers! Ron’s previous book, “The New CCD Astronomy”, has become a classic among astrophotographers and now he’s followed it up with “The New Astro Zone System for Astro Imaging”. This book covers image processing after the [...]

October 22, 2006   Posted in: Astronomy, Photography, Photoshop  Comments Closed

Table Mountain Star Party 2006

Table Mountain 2006 was a blast, at least from the astrophotography point of view!

July 28, 2006   Posted in: Astronomy, Dark Sky Sites  Comments Closed

Dark Sky Sites – Scooteney Reservoir

BLM Campground that has very dark skies and a nicely maintained campground

July 28, 2006   Posted in: Astronomy, Dark Sky Sites  Comments Closed