CHRIS HOWARD ASTRONOMY

Setup and polar alignment for the portable astro rig was super fast.

I think this is the final component needed to complete my super portable astro rig.

I started capturing imaging data for the Iris around 2 in the morning, and ended up with 61 good subs around 4:45am.

One from last night's session, the "Hamburger Galaxy" (NGC 3628) is a spiral galaxy, about 35 million lightyears away in the constellation Leo.

The “Owl Nebula”, M97 (NGC 3587) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Ursa Major (Big Dipper), about 2000 lightyears away.

A little frosty this morning after the imaging session.

It’s 5am, we’re just coming out of astronomical dark, and I’m reading through the following article while I’m capturing the 206th sub-exposure of M106/NGC4258 Galaxy: An Improved Distance to NGC 4258 and Its Implications for the Hubble Constant, M.

How to capture galaxies millions of lightyears away and have fun doing it!