Nov 26-27, 2019 time lapses All sky all night. Sun pillar at dawn. I banked on extreme cold limiting frost formation and skipped the lens warmer to save battery life. My bet paid off.
Nov 26, 2019 sunset time lapses The Sangres live up to their name. Then turning west for Venus and Jupiter setting.
Nov 24-25, 2019 time lapses I had to setup the tracking mount well before Polaris was visible and my guess at alignment was close enough to keep the planets in the frame for about 80 minutes. I caught the Starlink satellites at dawn. Clouds obscured them a little, but when the sky turns red look at the lower right of center around the 32 second mark. Since I was already polar aligned for the tracking mount…
Andromeda with new telescope plus Nov 23-24, 2019 time lapse with star trails I bought a small refractor and have made my first attempt at stacking multiple exposures. This was made from 211 x 30 second exposures taken over two hours.Telescope: Williams Optics Zenithstar 61 APOMount: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer ProCamera: Sony a6300Software: DeepSkyStacker I started out at sunset using a new telescope to image Andromeda and only switched to time lapse after 8:30pm MST. Now that I have a telescope, there’s competition between wide-field time lapse and deep-sky stacking. While I have two cameras, I only have one portable battery bank and sturdy tripod.