Midwest Astro

02/22/2025

Cold days of teaching out of new century. -13c in this photo in the SR20.

11/17/2024

Morning view of the two birds

11/16/2024

11/16/2024

Tonight’s full moon with the dwarf II

11/16/2024

Tonight’s full moon

10/11/2024

needs to get these birds a paint job but otherwise here are the F-18 super hornets that flew over the game last night at New Century airport.

05/27/2024

Evening sunset just north of last night in . Made for a pretty neat sunset.

07/28/2023

Goal of 100 miles / 161km was my goal for the month. In April 2018 when I was training for the I managed 88 miles in that one month. My goal for July 2023 was 100 miles. just gave me the news… 100+ miles accomplished. 5 miles per day, 5 days a week, 4 weeks for the month.

While it seems like a straight forward goal, I progressed from 11 min miles to 9 min miles in the span of the 4 weeks and Garmin has helped ensure the monitor of my progress and has helped monitor the diet. Very happy with this one. Not too shabby for just having turned 35 y/o.

06/03/2023

Thunderstorms on the horizon in the area.

05/09/2023

Storms brewing in the area tonight

05/08/2023

Easily identified by the spectacular band of absorbing dust partially obscuring its bright nucleus, M64, or the Black Eye galaxy, is characterized by its bizarre internal motion. The gas in the outer regions of this remarkable galaxy is rotating in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in its inner regions. This strange behavior can be attributed to a merger between M64 and a satellite galaxy over a billion years ago.

New stars are forming in the region where the oppositely rotating gases collide, are compressed, and then contract. Particularly noticeable in this stunning Hubble image of the galaxy’s core are hot, blue stars that have just formed, along with pink clouds of glowing hydrogen gas that fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light from newly formed stars.

M64 was discovered by the English astronomer Edward Pigott. It is located 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices and is best observed in May. With an apparent magnitude of 9.8, the Black Eye galaxy can be spotted with a moderately sized telescope. - Nasa

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Telescope: iOptron RC8
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Mounts: ioptron CEM70
Guiding: ZWO OAG-L
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI174MM mini
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Total Integrated Time 8 hrs
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00
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