Astronomy Picture of the Day
2021 July 31
Remembering NEOWISE
Explanation: It was just last July. If you could see
the stars of the Big Dipper, you could find Comet
NEOWISE in your evening sky..
Remembering NEOWISE
Explanation: It was just last July. If you could see
the stars of the Big Dipper, you could find Comet
NEOWISE in your evening sky..
Could you see it from your vantage point in BC?
Probably but I never went looking for it.
I suppose that with all the smoke in the air the opprtunities were few?
The skies are smoky here now but last July would have been better.
I haven't made the trip in a while but I have driven a star gazing friend on a trip about 30 minutes out of town away from all the lights. He has a small telescope that he connects to his laptop and once he has it adjusted he can zero in on just about whatever you'd like to look at.
So.. he was looking at the images on the laptop? Or, was he using the laptop
to aide in pointing the telescope to the right spot in the sky. I have no
idea how "computerized" telescopes work.
I don't know how they work either. No pictures on the computer. That is probably doable but you would need a way to connect the camera to the telescope and that would be non trivial.
We just used the telescope itself to view whatever we were looking at.
That would be good to be able to grab pictures from the telescope but I'm not sure what kind of gear you would need to do that.
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