Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

Ahhh, the joys of cell phone astrophotography. Cropped and brightness / contrast adjusted, that’s all.

After last night’s test I left the entire scope setup. The forecast was clear for the next two days so I wasn’t worried at all about rain. I put the eyepieces away, took the diagonal off, covered the objective and went to bed, setting the alarm for 5:20AM, which was just went Saturn should be [...]

I just recieved my 30mm TMB Paragon from Burgess Optical and I was anxious to give it a try. I didn’t need to buy it. I’ve been very happy, quite happy, with my Siebert Optical 34mm Observatory, but a poster in the Burgess Yahoo groups said, and I quote:
I’m not going to bore everyone with [...]

Remember when you first saw the rings of Saturn or the Orion Nebula, how stunning they were to you. Did you gasp or say something, or maybe you just held your breath. Those times are rare because with experience, the things we look for are not as impressive. Sure, search for that dim DSO might [...]

Last night, after the Red Sox game, I headed out around 11pm to poke around in the sky some with my trusty Canon 15×50is binoculars. The Moon was about half full but the sky was very dark and clear.
I warmed up on some of my favorites, the Double Cluster and the Andromeda Galaxy. But they [...]

Two schooners in town for the Provincetown Schooner Regatta. Sorry for the poor quality, this is a cell phone photo.

Three times this evening I went outside very briefly, and all three time I saw a meteor shoot across the sky. How pretty and what a nice coincidence. I know there are lots of not very famous meteor showers but I really couldn’t say that there was a radiant to these three.
Anyhow, after the Red [...]

I headed out to MacMillian Pier to do some public astronomy with the Burgess. Yeah, pretty strange with a brand new scope at home, but the tourist season is almost over and I wanted to get another night of that in. I need to build up my P-town “character” rep, right?
Anyway, I get there and [...]