Gregoria Luna's Astronomy Blog

 I've kind of dropped the ball with my blog this week. Here's a few updates, and some sketches too.

I sort of procrastinated writing this and it is now kind of leaving my mind, so here's a very rough and quick summary of my sidewalk astronomy adventure on September 26th, 2020, or International Observe The Moon Night. I had been aware of NASA's Observe The Moon Night for about a month, but I was gonna let it slip by with perhaps just a passing glance through my Galileoscope. It was just too dangerous to do a sidewalk astronomy session during the pandemic. But that all changed two days before the night. I saw this reddit post about a Radical Astronomy Vehicle for Educating Neighbors, a sidewalk astronomy setup on a push-trolley which included a 10" Dobsonian, a homemade radio telescope, a laptop, a phone camera on the dob, and a large monitor to display the phone picture. After messing around trying to find a solution for showing my phone's view on the television screen, I realized I had everything I needed to make a video astronomy setup myself. One which would be co...

Back in early July, I found a hell of a deal on a telescope tube on craigslist. The Omni XLT 150 optical tube, for $60 bucks. It sells new for $290. (OTA only) I picked it up and brought it home, with the plan being that I would embark in my first journey into Amateur Telescope Making and build a Dobsonian Mount for it, based upon this blog post from 10 Minute Astronomy.