MICHAEL W. DEAN

It was 40 years ago today…. October 1982, my first year at Jamestown Community College in Western New York State. One of my classes was music theory. A guy in that class played bass in a punk band called “Amyl and the Accidents.” (Pictured here, from when they were on the cover on “Nite Line…

I shot 188 minutes of this last night. Less forest fire smoke than lately, but still some. The two clusters in the middle are about 700 stars total. The clusters are relatively young, both 14 million years old. They are 7,500 light years from Earth. This is an area the size of about an American…

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North America Nebula in constellation of Cygnus. My second try with PixInsight. Backyard, North East Oregon. Bortle 3. Total Integration: 1 hour 41 minutes. 800 ISO. 60 sec exposures. RedCat on Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro with guide cam and PhD2. Cam: DSLR, Canon 90D. Cropped. 101 Lights. 41 Darks. 33 Flats. 52 Dark Flats.

Just taking my little friend for a walk from the back yard to the front yard. Thing weighs 54 pounds without the counterweights. Not too much to lift but is when it’s shaped like this.