Perhaps the most recognizable star pattern in the northern night sky is the Big Dipper. Did you know that the Big Dipper can help you find many other bright stars and constellations? The Big Dipper hangs down by its handle in the northwest these evenings. The apparent middle star of its bent handle is actually […]
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An unexpected G2-class geomagnetic storm occurred during the early hours of May 17th, sparked by the glancing blow of a Coronal Mass Ejection. Originally expected to miss Earth, the CME was launched on May 12th by an erupting magnetic filament in the sun’s northern hemisphere. During the May 17th storm, auroras appeared as far south as New Mexico where I captured […]
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In today’s Astro Academy segment, we will be discussing Starlink satellites with my friend, sometimes collaborator, Dark Sky Advocate, Network Engineer, and Astro-photographer, Mike Lewinski. Mike a member of Crestone Colorado’s Dark Sky Committee, and has been a presenter at Crestone’s Dark Sky Festival, and he is a night sky photographer and Time-lapse creator […]
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“No Meteor Undetected” is the motto of the Global Meteor Network. Skylapser and the Cielito Azul Observatory are joining the Global Meteor Network to help with that vision. The goal of this project is to observe meteors, by a global network of cameras pointed at the night sky. Each camera is connected to a Raspberry […]
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Skywatcher Allview telescope mount is a versatile mount for astronomy and time-lapse photography. The SynScan WiFi controller links to the SynScan app for iOs , android, and PC.
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I had great hopes for the PANSTARRS comet earlier this year, but it didn’t pan out. Then there was C/2020 F8 Swan, and it fizzled out too. When I heard that NEOWISE was discovered in March and they thought it would be visible to the naked-eye, I was skeptical. And then at the begining of […]
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The Black Magic Design RX580 External GPU is a relatively inexpensive way to accelerate graphics processing on USB-C Macs. Uses include rendering time-lapse video, video editing, and faster gaming. It’s powerful and quiet, but consumes a lot (350W) of electrical power. It also acts as a hub with 4 USB 3 jacks, an HDMI 2 […]
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Was that a top secret military aircraft, or a classified satellite or a meteor burning through the atmosphere in your time-lapse? We show you how to tell the difference. Satellite database: https://www.heavens-above.com/ Aircraft database: https://flightaware.com/ Report a meteor: https://www.amsmeteors.org
Read MoreThe May 26 pass of Space X’s Starlink satellite train was super spectacular especially through binoculars. It even sparked thousands of UFO reports. I thought I had missed capturing it on my all-sky camera until I realized that the fierce winds of late had rotated the camera 90 degrees. Once I figured that out , […]
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Skylapser’s time-lapse video of the eta Aquanids meteor shower was featured on the Mother Nature News site, on May 6, 2019. You can read the article here: Did you miss the Eta Aquarid meteor shower? Problem solved
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