April 2024 Stargazing Photos
Some people might say, “How can you get so excited about a little grey smudge?” My answer is because that little grey smudge is over ONE...
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Welcome to StarGazing with Eric, my very own passion project filled with interesting and engaging content. Explore my site and all the best objects I have found in the night sky; perhaps StarGazing with Eric will ignite your own passions as well.
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NOTE: Most of the facts and figures I put in my blog entries come from Wikipedia. I want to give them credit for and thank them for their help.
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I bought a new telescope early in 2021. I bought a Unistellar evScope 1.0. Some purist think that true stargazers need to be able to find planets, stars, and other celestial objects on their own using star charts, etc. I decided I wanted to get straight to the fun stuff. That's why I bought an evScope. It connects to your phone to get GPS coordinates so that you can tell it what you want to see and the telescope directs itself to that object. I love this telescope.
Once I got good pictures, I started texting and emailing them to friends and family. This worked ok but my son Chris told me that I should put the pictures in a blog. The emails were essentially a blog so I should distribute my pictures with a real blog. I agreed.
There is one downside to using a blog for my astronomical pictures. I want to post the unedited pictures I take with my evScope. This means you can't always get the best view of the objects in the pictures from the posts alone. Sometimes you need to zoom in to see things better. You can zoom in in many ways. The easiest way is to just click on a picture. You will see a much larger version of the picture. From there you can make it go full screen and even scroll through the rest of the images in the post.
If you need to see even more, just right click on an image. You will be given several options to view or save the image. From there you can use other apps like Microsoft Photos to zoom in on parts of the picture. Doing this is useful when you want to get a better view of planets, etc in some of my pictures.
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Eclipse 2024 and February 2024 Stargazing Photos
I guess you can call this my “Eclipse Special”… Such as it is… Quanda and I flew to San Antonio on April 5 to see the city and to view...
November 2023 Stargazing Photos
Hello everyone. This is going to be a short blog entry. Quanda and I went to Hawaii in November to spend a week with some old friends...
October 2023 Stargazing Photos
I finally did it! I was finally able to go stargazing in October. This was the first October since I started stargazing almost three...
August 2023 Stargazing Photos
Hello everyone! I am starting this blog entry on October 23rd. I have finally gotten around to posting the photos I took last August. ...
June 2023 Stargazing Photos
I saw my first supernova this month. That was the highlight of the night for me. This supernova is the closest one to the Earth in the...
February / March 2023 Stargazing Photos
I finally found a clear night where everything went according to plan. March 21 was a great night for stargazing. The sky was clear. ...
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long-period comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March...
December 2022 Stargazing Photos
Here are the best pictures I got when I went stargazing in December 2022. I am going to keep this posting short and sweet just like I...
September 2022 Stargazing Photos
Hello everyone. This is my first post in about 4 months. I took these photos last September but I just didn’t get around to posting...
August 2022 Stargazing Photos
I am kind of pressed for time this month so I am going to keep my write up short and sweet. Enjoy! I went out stargazing on Monday,...
June / July Stargazing Photos
In late June and early July, all eight planets (I’m including Pluto) were in the pre-dawn sky stretched out in a line starting low in the...
May 2022 Stargazing Photos
After waiting over two months because of bad weather, I finally went stargazing again on Friday, May 20. The night was mostly clear. I...
March – April 2022
Our record breaking rainy and cloudy winter and spring continued. Either the nights were cloudy or, on those few clear nights, I was...
February 2022 Stargazing Photos
I made another foray out into a cold winter’s night. This time I ended up in Crossroad’s Park because Marymoor was unavailable. It turns...
January 2022 Stargazing Photos
I got lucky this month. The atmospheric river that has been dumping on the Seattle area and clouding our skies was diverted for a couple...
October - December 2021
Sorry guys. No more new pictures for the rest of this year. The weather in the Seattle area has been HORRIBLE for months. It has been...
September 2021 Stargazing Photos
I took my telescope out on Sep 23. This was not my most successful night of stargazing. I went to the top floor of a park-n-ride. There...
August 2021 Stargazing Photos
I had a decent night of stargazing at the end of August. I was out on Aug 28/29. It was cold and mostly clear. Each of those things...
July 2021 Stargazing Photos
I had a fun night of stargazing last Thursday night, and I wanted to share some of the pictures I took with you. I achieved one of my...
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