What's in the Sky this Month | July 2023 | High Point Scientific 

Awesome Video Thank You!

Great video

Thanks for the heads up. You don't have any dark skies for sale do you?

Nice video. Thanks. All great targets, even with an 8" dob. M13 is indeed stunning, but I prefer M92, also in Hercules. It's not as bright, and certainly not as easy to locate initially, but it's well worth the search. M7 and 6 are both worth going back to time and again. Unless stacking images, color and fine detail won't be there with nebulae, but they're still fascinating to observe. Observing with an 8" reflector won't get the pillars in M16, or color, but it's easy to find and study. Same for the Lagoon, Trifid, Swan and other nebulae in the area. Clear Skies!

All great targets around New Moon. M8/M20 are favorites of mine ever since I imaged them under Bortle 2 skies just 30 minutes from my home.

Any recommendations on filters for viewing nebulas? I’m looking at the Baader Planetarium Neodymium moon and sky glow, I hear good things about it.

Great video as always. You need to post a video on how to view the night sky through smoke 😢.

The Pillars of Creation. I remember when the first image was released by the HST. I've imaged the Eagle with my GT81 and my 8" EdgeHD. If the skies ever clear, I'm hoping to turn my 15028HNT towards it this year. One of the reasons I went with the fast glass is due to my rather limited view to the south. I get at most 60 minutes of clear sky time for the Milky Way Core targets. I figure the 150mm aperture and f/2.8 speed will get me a lot more photons than I captured with the 81mm f/5.9 refractor.

Why not Bubble Nebula Veil Nebula IC 63(ghost of Cassiopeia) I did those with 150p Quattro 150/600 and look amazing even with only 3u off data.

Can any of my fellow sky gazers recommend a video or article that does a good job of explaining how to choose an eyepiece? I have had my 8" dobsonian for about a year, but I'm still using the eyepiece that came with it.

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February, March, April were terrible this year in the middle of Europe, but since May came around we've been treated with many clear nights - sometimes I felt like a kid in the candy shop not knowing what to choose 🤩. But since it's getting dark very late I had to balance sleep and that strange urge to get under the night sky ... but several times this routine worked out: I put everything up, polar aligned as soon as the first stars appeared, oriented with beautiful Venus then went to sleep. I usually wake up 2 hours later and if I felt like it I got up, went outside - and damn is it still hitting me when the Milky Way just hits you right in the face! Then I would point at something and let the camera do its thing while going back to sleep. And boy did we have some great seeing! Thus even with my dslr, the 6''-SC, no DBF's, just 80 to 100 30-40 second lights I got them all: Lagoon, Trifid as beautiful as I never thought it would be possible, Omega and OF COURSE Eagle with the beautiful pillars in the middle. Even found time for some galaxies, Blackeye, M60 didn't go so well, M90 is ok but I'll try again, even took the telescope down and captured M87 with many of the others of that cluster around it with just my stock 70-300 telelense. Love it! Thanks for the regular update, always enjoy.