Episodes
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In Episode SH062 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll examine the Camelopardalis region, and locate three targets for the Big Guns, meaning they are challenge objects. Weāll find the massive spiral galaxy IC 342, the Gamma Cassiopeia Nebula, otherwise catalogued as IC 59 and 63, and lastly weāll hunt down the elusive Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635. Intro Read More ...
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In Episode SH061 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll examine the Cepheus region, and find some ādeeperā deep sky objects: IC 1396, the famous āElephantās Trunkā nebula, the open cluster Messier 52, and The Blue Snowball Nebula, also catalogued as NGC 7662. Intro So after all the excitement of the Summer with the August Solar Eclipse, weāre Read More ...
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In Episode SH060 of Star Hoppingā¦ Star Hopping Returns! In this Star Hopping āExtraā, weāll present our documentary of the Great American Eclipse, from our perspective from our selected viewing site, the summit of Brasstown Bald, the highest mountain in the state of Georgia. Intro So now that the eclipse and all its drama is Read More ...
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In Episode SH059 of Star Hoppingā¦ Dave makes some big announcements you shouldnāt miss, and then he takes us through a Full Dress Rehearsal to prepare and test his solar photography equipment, for next monthās big Solar Eclipse! Intro So I have a couple of announcements to make that I want to share with you Read More ...
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In Episode SH058 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll examine the Cygnus region, and weāll locate three great deep sky objects; two nebulae and one globular cluster. Weāll start out locating the Gamma Cygni Nebula: a huge 3 degree wide emission nebula surrounding the bright star Sadr. Close by weāll also find NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula. Read More ...
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In Episode SH057 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll continue a series of episodes dedicated to help you to plan for and photograph the Great North American Solar Eclipse in August 2017! Intro So this week weāre doing Part 2 of our series about the Great North American Solar Eclipse, coming up on Monday, August 21st. If you didnāt Read More ...
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In Episode SH056 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll check out the Draco Region, and show you how to locate the Missing messier Object: M102, the Splinter Galaxy, NGC 5907, and the famous but tiny Cat Eye Nebula, NGC 6543. Intro Well in last weekās episode, we checked out three new comets visiting our solar system, and Read More ...
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In Episode SH055 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll be checking out the trio of Comets that are visiting our Solar System. Comets Johnson and Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak are evening targets, in and around the constellation of Hercules. And in the pre-dawn hours, we have yet another Comet Lovejoy, Australian amateur Terry Lovejoyās 6th discovery. Intro So over the Read More ...
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In Episode SH054 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll begin a series of episodes dedicated to help you to plan for and view the Great North American Solar Eclipse in August 2017! Intro So this week weāre starting a series of Extra episodes to get you excited and informed about the Great North American Solar Eclipse, coming Read More ...
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In Episode SH053 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāre going to continue on our Basic Astrophotography series, and show you how to perform Basic Image Processing: the procedure to extract a beautiful color astrophoto from your raw frames you captured through your telescope. Intro So Iām in that situation again where I just need to wait a Read More ...
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In Episode SH052 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll check out the Hydra region, and locate three very different types of deep sky objects. The first weāll check out is NGC 3521, a large angled spiral galaxy, then weāll find NGC 3115, better known as the Spindle Galaxy, an edge-on lenticular galaxy in Sextans, and finally the Read More ...
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In Episode SH051 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll once again visit the Realm of the Galaxies. Weāll check out three new galaxies we havenāt seen before: Messier 85, a lenticular galaxy, Messier 88, a massive spiral galaxy, and the lost Messier galaxy, M91. This last one also has the distinction of being the faintest galaxy on Read More ...
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In Episode SH050 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāre taking some time out and doing some celebrating of our 50th episode of Star Hopping! Weāre going to look back at the last 16 months, do some shoutouts to our loyal subscribers, and then take a look into the future and outline some positive changes coming to Star Read More ...
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In Episode SH049 of Star Hoppingā¦ weāll examine the Canes Venatici region, where weāll show you how to locate three impressive galaxies: Messier 94, NGC 5033, and the huge Whale Galaxy, NGC 4631. Intro Oh weāre so close to our big episode 50 coming in two weeks. I canāt believe that weāve completed that many episodes Read More ...
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In Episode SH048 of Star Hoppingā¦ In this Star Hopping āExtraā, weāre going to continue on our Basic Astrophotography series, and show you how to capture motion in the night sky, through the interesting and fun process of Time Lapse Astrophotography. Intro Well in this episode I am finally covering a topic that I have had Read More ...
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In Episode SH047 of Star Hoppingā¦ Weāll examine the Leo region, and show you how to find three famous galaxies found in the central part of that regal constellation: Messier 105 with its two close NGC galactic neighbors, and the pair of galaxies less than a degree apart: M95, and M96. Intro Welcome to the Read More ...
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In Episode SH046 of Star Hoppingā¦ Weāll examine the Ursa Major region, and show you how to find three more exceptional deep sky targets: The huge spiral galaxy NGC 2403, The Surfboard Galaxy; Messier 108, and the famous Owl Nebula; Messier 97. Intro Well as the holidays draw even closer, we have some great deep Read More ...
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In Episode SH045 of Star Hoppingā¦ Weāll examine the Canis Minor region, and show you how to find three great deep sky targets: the Seagull Nebula (IC 2177), the Medusa Nebula (Abell 21), and the lost Messier Open Star Cluster, M48. As mentioned in the episode, the holiday season is upon us! See our āTelescopes Read More ...
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In Episode SH044 of Star Hoppingā¦ Weāll examine the Orion region, and show you how to find three great nebulae: the Running Man Nebula in Orion (NGC 1977), the Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118), and Hubbleās Variable Nebula (NGC 2261). Intro Well once again it is Thanksgiving in the US, and I am in the Florida Read More ...
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In Episode SH043 of Star Hoppingā¦ Weāll look at the Gemini region, and show you how to find three great nebulae: the Monkeyhead Nebula in Orion (NGC 2174), the Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443), and the Eskimo Planetary Nebula (NGC 2392). Intro The area of sky between the club of Orion and the foot of Gemini Read More ...
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