Month: August 2021

I keep a log of observations in a spreadsheet (download here). This is uploaded to the cloud so that I can update it when I am away from the desktop computer. The log has four main sections (sheets), Binaries (double and multiple stars), DSO (Messier and NGC objects), Solar System and Other (everything else). The…

So what about the other 1%? I said I was a 99% visual observer who prefer “live” views, but once in a while to use a smartphone to capture an image. The Dobsonian mount is very limiting and imaging with a smartphone is fiddly and with no stacking or processing (I have better things to…