Home Portable Observatory

I want to have a backyard observatory for years but, unfortunately, my backyard doesn't have enough space. My front yard has a big tree that blocks most of the sky...

Thing has changed last week !!

The front yard tree is cut down due to some property damages caused by the tree (approved by city) and now I can really do imaging there...

Bye bye tree ...

Here is my portable observatory ... ;-)

Yeah, I can only do narrowband imaging due to the stupid street light ...

Has to do some modification on the "Scope Buggy" to make it stable enough for long exposure imaging...

4/29/2017 - Take Adrian to William Hill for Visual Observing ...

My son really wants to go out with me, so we took our 10" dob and the binoculars and have a short trip to William Hill. Here are some pictures:

It is really cold at night !!!

Adrian really love astronomy !! He wants a bino by himself !

Morning...

Visit Japan Kyoei Store ...

This is one of the reasons that I want to have this Japan trip ;-)

A very small store but makes me want to stay here for many hours !!

Visit Cheng Kung University Observatory

Thanks to my brother Yi (who is a professor at Cheng Kung University), we got a chance to visit the observatory. What a good experience. Please enjoy the photos.

http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/ckuo/home.html (official website)

RoR

C14 + WO 130 (?)

old AP 1200 GTO mount

2017/Feb/10 Comet 45P

Don't know what I am doing... ;-)
Woke up at 4:30am and start getting LRGB 30s frames...
Still learn how to process comet...

This one is from L channel only, 10 subs...

2017 New Year Project -- "Portable Observatory"

Want to do something like this for a long long time. Having two young kids really limits my go-out-to-do-imaging time. People said having a semi-permanent setup is the next best thing to an observatory. So I pull the trigger... !!

I really should do this earlier !!!

Take me 5 min to setup and 5 min to tear down.

Although I have very limited sky in my backyard, I think I am going get a lot of subs this year.

365 cover ...

Very limited sky ...

First light -- Thor's Helmet Nebula - Ha 30min x 3 and the target is blocked by the tree...

 Second light -- Rosette Nebula -- Ha 30min x 7 ...

iTelescope ... First Try

Raining ... so I decide to give iTelescope a try ...