Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

So after checking out the Comet Chasing website I decide to grab Comet Holmes tonight from Manchester and then after that easy grab, I’d enjoy 46P/Wirtanen passing by NGC 1893. I knew that that would be dim but I’m getting so good at this it would be a piece of cake.
I went outside right around [...]

Here’s a quick shot of the moon setting. Probably one of the last Manchester moon shot’s I’ll take.
I never really did like this apartment but I must say, the photographic opportunities have been great. There used to be 4 or 5 huge trees which all were dying or dead. The town cut those down a [...]

So I’m sitting, you know where, reading the Feb 2008 issue of Astronomy. Wanting to see if there is something I grab tonight before getting back to my boxes.
Observe Winter’s Forgotten Star Clusters it says and I say sure, lets read. First one up is NGC 1502 in Camelopardalis, which has got to be one [...]

Yeah yeah yeah. I’m packing boxes, but I’ll certainly take a bit of clear moonless time out, not that there will be all that much, I’m writing this at 8:22 and the moon official rose 4 minutes ago.
Anyway, I wanted to see if I could grab M46 from Manchester. No such luck. I had hoped [...]

So I’ve been trying for a few days now to get M38 from Manchester with the binoculars. Not being dark adapted and having a very bright moon certainly hasn’t helped. I’ve also waited until it was a bit lower toward the horizon so I didn’t have to crane my neck so, but that put it [...]

The sky is very clear tonight so I try for M38 again. I find M36 quite easily, don’t even need my charts, I still remember from last night. But M38 prove elusive.

Manchester with lots of moon is just not the hot ticket I guess.

So we’re driving back from the Cape and the skies are pretty nasty, snowing actually. But for some reason I check the Clear Sky Clock and it shows nice skies that night at YFOS. I’m pretty happy, it as been a dreadful winter. I check online to see who else might be going and frankly [...]

So it is about 4:30 AM and I can’t sleep. This is about a week now that I’ve been waking around 4AM. Very annoying. So why not continue the evening’s stargazing? Fire up Stellarium, ooo, Cygnus is up. I know that that has an easy M in it. M29 right near Sadr.
Outside with the Canon [...]

Steve wanted me to come out and check out the GoTo Nova but I got in late and was tired. Said no. Then later got feeling Astro-guilty, wasting clear like that. Went outside, Arcturus was up, but low, couldn’t see Muphrid (eta Boo) yet, the next pointer for M3. Waited about an hour, saw Muphrid [...]

Here’s a shot of the crescent moon and Venus over Manchester NH.
The moon is way over exposed but I needed to do that to get the sunset just right. You can also see star tracks on both the moon and venus but that is expected. I think the exposure was 15 seconds.