WAITING FOR THE SHADOW

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Astronomical Observing and Photography - Joseph Cali

• Lyrids April 16 to April 25

• 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko    9th magnitude and fading. Northern morning sky. Peaked at magnitude 8 in November 2021.
  
  
• 19P Borrelly    9th magnitude and brightening. Western evening sky. Peaks at magnitude 8 in February 2022.
  
  
• C/2019 L3 ATLAS    9th magnitude and steady. Low Northern morning sky. Peaks at magnitude 9 in January 2022.
  
  
• 104P Kowal    9th magnitude and brightening. Western evening sky. Brighter than expected. May peak at magnitude 9 in January 2022.
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• Feb 8:........03:00 am
• Feb 22.......02:00 am
• Mar 8.........01:00 am

• November 8th

• Comet Leonard
  
• Astrophotography November 2021- Jan 2022
  
• Aurora  on 30/31 October, 2021
  
• Astrophotography Vixen VC200L Sept 2021
  
• Astrophotography and Nightscapes 2021
  
• Astrophography -  Spring 2020-Autumn 2021

• Widefield & Nightscapes-1
• Deep sky objects with standard to short telephoto lenses
• Widefield & Nightscapes-2
• Widefield & Nightscapes-3
• Startrail Landscapes
  
• Moon & Lunar Eclipses
  
• Nightscapes & Panoramas
• Solar Eclipses
• Lunar Eclipses
• Comet Wirtanen Gallery
  

• Using Google Earth to polar align your mount or tracker (Astrophotography)
  
• ISO Bracketing capture and stacking technique (Astrophotography)
  
• APPS -  My own laser assisted polar alignment method (Telescope Making)
  
• DIY Solar Filter (Telescope Making)
  
• Nightscape Panorama Photography (Capture and Processing Technique)
  
• Astrophotography from a fixed tripod (Capture Technique)
  
• Manual Stacking of images in Photoshop (DIgital Photography Technique)
  
• Last Friday Night - Life's simple pleasures (essay)
  
• Comparing a premium newtonian reflector and a premium refractor (Observational comparison report)
  
• DIY finderscope from old binoculars and PVC plumbing fittings. (Telescope making)
• Half a night is better than none (essay)
• How to use a Newtonian telescope to view planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars (Observing technique)
  
• How to collimate and adjust a Newtonian telescope (telescope maintenance)
• Building a newtonian reflector in my teenage years
  
  

• The day the World Looked Up - BBC Witness History Program.  BBC podcast - 9 min.
  
  
• "Chasing Totality from the Stratosphere"  By Catalin Beldea & Joe Cali.
   Braving the Australian Outback, an international amateur team launched a balloon to catch last November's solar
   eclipse. Feature article first published in the international edition of Sky and Telescope Magazine, October 2013, pp 66-71. Available online only with digital subscription. Reprinted in Australian Sky and Telescope, Nov/Dec issue pp 82-87.
  
  
  
  
• BBC morning radio: Live cross to describe live on air, the final minutes of  the transit of Venus, 6th June, 2012
  
  
• "Waiting for the Shadow." Feature about Solar Eclipse Chasers and Chasing, Australian Geographic Society Journal. 2005, Apr-Jun, pp 86-99.
  Article text only, none of my photo's or illustrations is available online on the Australian Geographic Website.
  Photo's and illustrations used with the printed article and more can be seen on this site in my 2002 Total Eclipse Report