http://cmsobservatory.com/gallery/ A feed of the latest images from the Cody Middle School observatory. en-us Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:37:53 -0600 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:40:00 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CMS Observatory CMS pidema@park6.k12.wy.us bcreavis@gmail.com http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/85.jpg March 15th was a beautifully clear night. After our astronomy club meeting while working on equipment I took this image. It was a 2 minute unfiltered exposure. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:37:53 -0600 85 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/82.jpg This image resulted from stacking 250 images gathered using a webcam and was taken using the 8\" scope on the night of August 20, 2009. Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:25:42 -0600 82 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/81.jpg The 14\" telescope at the CMS Observatory is seeing clearly again! After a few years of being out of collimation, the scope has been given an overhaul and is now seeing much more clearly. Some fine-tuning is still needed, but we\'re getting there! This image was taken the night of August 20, 2009 is the result of stacking 500 images taken with the webcam. Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:19:22 -0600 81 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/80.jpg This image of Saturn taken 5/18/09 at 10pm during the CMS Astronomy Club meeting shows the planet with its rings nearly edge on. The best 192 images out of 850 were stacked using K3CCD Tools (the program used to capture the images). Tue, 19 May 2009 16:02:28 -0600 80 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/79.jpg This shot of the moon and Venus was taken in front of the hospital on the evening of March 5th using my Fuji Finepix 7000 and a 1/4 sec. exposure. Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:04:39 -0600 79 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/78.jpg This shot of the crescent moon and Venus was taken using my Fuji Finepix 7000 on the evening of 3/5/09. Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:53:42 -0600 78 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/77.jpg This image of M82 was taken using a Meade DSI on a beautifully clear night! Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:41:53 -0700 77 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/76.jpg This image was taken by an 8th grade student, Jordan Moore, using the Meade DSI and Envisage software. It is the result of stacking 25 two second images. Look carefully to see the nebulocity. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:37:55 -0700 76 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/75.jpg This image of Venus, Jupiter, and the waxing crescent moon was taken around 5:20 pm on November 30th with a Fuji FinePix S7000 camera with a 1/10th of a second exposure. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:20 -0700 75 http://cmsobservatory.com/photos/73.jpg This image of M2 7was taken using the Meade DSI on Sept. 29, 2008 and is the result of around 33 stacked images. No image processing was done (though some is needed!). Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:22:22 -0600 73