Observing Log for Mike Durkin 5/30/2015 about 8:00PM-12:00AM midnight Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 8/10, Seeing 4/5 Temperature: about 50-55 degrees Equipment: Celestron 8 inch SCT Testing out my new Celestron Off Axis guider, which worked pretty well. I also tried to use the Linux laptop with autoguiding. I think the best camera to use will be the Meade, which seems to work OK, or at least better than the DMK. However both programs I tried, KStars/Ekos and OPenPHD had issues that I need to find a solution for. Around midnight, the clouds came in and I shut down. 5/23/2015-5/24/2015 about 11:30PM-3:30AM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 8/10, Seeing 4/5 Temperature: about 50-55 degrees Equipment: 10x50 binoculars, 70mm Stellarvue and Canon Rebel T3i Visual observations of Z UMa, ST UMa, VY UMa, T UMa, VW UMa and α Her. Then some DSLR photometry of δ Sco, κ Oph, R Lyr and P Cyg. It has been a while since I've done some observing so I was kind of itching to get some in. But I still need to do some "hardware testing" of the new off axis guider and using the Imaging Source camera with the linux laptop for guiding. Other Log Entries <-- 2014 Jan  Feb   Mar  Apr  May   Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec   2016 -->