Adventures in Variable Star Observing
Despite the temperature last night, I decided to get my telescope out and try to hit one of the targets for Exoplanet Watch's January...
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Exploring and Preserving
the Night Skies in Central Texas
Deanna Rose
- Jan 13
- 2 min
Telescopes 101
I own two Celestron telescopes-a 130mm Newtonian scope with a focal length of 560mm and focal ratio of f/5, and a 90mm...
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Deanna Rose
- Jan 10
- 4 min
NASA Wants You to Help Study Planets Around Other Stars
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-wants-you-to-help-study-planets-around-other-stars The Exoplanet Watch project invites you to use your...
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Deanna Rose
- Jan 1
- 1 min
This Week in the Sky-January 1-7, 2023
The information presented here is taken from my personal copy of Starry Night 8 Pro Plus, all rights belong to Starry Night...
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Deanna Rose
- Jan 1
- 1 min
Exoplanet Exploration: Recommended Targets for January 2023
North America: KELT-19 A b (January 1), HAT-P-30 b (January 2, 16), XO-6 b (January 5, 20, 24), HAT-P-22 b (January 5, 18, 21), WASP-127...
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Deanna Rose
- Aug 11, 2022
- 1 min
Equipment upgrade in progress!
I've been using my Celestron NexImage Color Burst camera for years-it's been great for getting shots of planets and super-bright stars....
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Deanna Rose
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
Live Oak Observatory?!?
So this is me just being a nerd, and Live Oak Observatory is just what I call my mom's house (she loves her live oak trees!). She has...
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Deanna Rose
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
The difference between science and f*cking around is documentation
True story-if you're not documenting your science experiments you're probably just f*cking around. Without documentation, reproducing...
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Deanna Rose
- Jul 21, 2022
- 1 min
DIY Planet Search Testing
I ran across this website while looking for more resources for exoplanet study. Using Harvard's MicroObservatory Telescope Network you...
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Deanna Rose
- Jul 19, 2022
- 1 min
Design Flaws and How To Compensate
Since I have two NexStar SLT telescope mounts, I decided to pull one apart and see what I could do about the problem with the...
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Deanna Rose
- Jul 18, 2022
- 2 min
Telescope Setup Test and Failures
This past weekend I took my new telescope setup out to my mom's place for testing. Previously, I was connecting my Celestron NexStar SLT...
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Deanna Rose
- Jul 15, 2022
- 1 min
AAVSO's Latest Observation Campaign-HD 189733 b
The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) runs 'campaigns' regularly to gather data on variable stars, or stars whose...
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