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Power*Star Pro Tips: Bad Connector Choices

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Before getting into this edition of “Pro Tips”, a little update on what’s been happening at Wa-chur-ed Observatory:  We’re moving!  The original observatory (located in Vancouver, WA) was in the backyard of my home there, which has been sold.  We’re now in Santa Fe, NM, but don’t yet have a home here, which means I’m largely unable to ship any products, and even somewhat hampered in supporting existing customers.  Hopefully, things will be back to normal by April.  After getting settled in and caught up, work will begin on the new observatory. A Power*Star customer recently asked me about connecting […]

To Capture a Globular Cluster

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I’ve tried many times to get a good photo of M13, the Hercules Cluster, and this is the best one yet, although it’s done with a telescope that is a bit low in magnification for this object.  M13 is a “globular cluster”, a group of stars that are gravitationally bound to each other.  In this case, there are about 300,000 stars in the cluster, so the goal in photographing it is to be able to distinguish one star from another as much as possible (obviously, we can’t come close to seeing all 300,000), which means getting excellent sharpness. Theoretically, a […]