New Contributors
Several of our members have joined the smart-scope craze and have started sharing their first images at meetings. Here is what Bill Flaherty captured with his Seestar S30:
Great Hercules Cluster
Image by
Bill Flaherty
Dumbbell Nebula
Image by
Bill Flaherty
Elusive Planet
Bob Donahue has acquired a “fleet” of smart scopes over the last three years and uses them every chance he can. However, Mercury might’ve proved itself a little too challenging to image!
Mercury at the Tree Line
Image by
Bob Donahue
I couldn’t get the scope to stack images (no stars to use for alignment),
so I just took a screenshot of the Seestar app centered on the planet.