Adirondack Astronomy

Welcome to Adirondack Astronomy. This channel will mainly explore space through the eyepiece of a telescope. These are the views you can expect to see through a telescope in typical city light polluted skies without spending hundreds (or thousands) on an imaging setup. I will dabble here and there in astrophotography as I do imaging quite often.

Since getting into astronomy in 2010 I have mainly done astrophotography. I started with a point and shoot camera held up to the eyepiece, to a full autoguiding setup with a DSLR attached. Imaging is absolutely beautiful, and the results can be quite amazing, but nothing compares to the connection you feel when gazing at a galaxy billions of light years away. The darkness and silence of night time. Just you, your telescope, some pencils, and some paper ready for a night of observing and sketching. I don't usually take notes at the eyepiece, but the sketches help serve the same purpose notes would.