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Episode 23 of Star Hopping – published March 9th, 2016 In this episode of Star Hopping with KPO, we’ll be exploring the Bootes & Corvus region, and we’ll use our star hopping methods to find the massive globular cluster Messier 3, the interacting Antennae Galaxies, and the gorgeous edge-on spiral, Messier 104. Constellation: Bootes, Corvus Deep Sky Objects Read More …
Episode 17 of Star Hopping – published January 28th, 2016 In this episode of Star Hopping with KPO, we’ll be exploring the Coma Berenices region, and using our star hopping methods to find the Sunflower Galaxy: Messier 63, the Black Eye Galaxy: Messier 64, and the Needle Galaxy: NGC4565. Constellation: Coma Berenices, Canes Venatici Deep Read More …
Episode 16 of Star Hopping – published January 21st, 2016 In this episode of Star Hopping, we’ll use our star hopping techniques to show you how to find the spiral galaxy Messier 106, the grand design face-on spiral Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, and finally we are amazed by the famous Whirlpool Galaxy, Read More …
Episode 14 of Star Hopping – published January 7th, 2016 In this episode, we’ll be exploring the Leo region, and using our star hopping methods to find Messier 65, Messier 66, and the galaxy NGC 2903. Constellation: Leo Deep Sky Objects covered: M65 – galaxy – Trio in Leo M66 – galaxy – Trio in Leo NGC Read More …
Episode 13 of Star Hopping – published December 31st, 2015 This episode of Star Hopping checks out the fainter regions just to the lower right of Orion and Canis Major, the dim constellations of Lepus, Caelum, Horologium, Eridanus, and Fornax. As you will see there are some amazing deep sky objects in the area, but they are Read More …
Episode 12 of Star Hopping – published December 17th, 2015 In this episode of Star Hopping with KPO, We’ll show you how to find the two beautiful galaxies Messier 81 and 82, otherwise known as Bode’s Galaxies, in Ursa Major. Then we’ll check out Messier 44, the huge open star cluster in the constellation of Cancer. Read More …
This is a three part series from Star Hopping that explores the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, better know as “The Realm of the Galaxies.” This guide takes you on a tour of the Realm, skips along Markarian’s Chain, gives specific star hopping location methods to find many galactic targets, and keep you from getting lost in Read More …
This is a 27 page essential guide to learning all the variations of deep sky objects: Galaxies, Nebulae, and Star Clusters. It’s packed with beautiful color images of example objects to show you the different variations that these amazing objects can have. This guide will teach you how to recognize and classify any deep sky object when Read More …
This useful 38 page guide provides an introduction to the basic types of astrophotography, for those of you that always have been interested in this exciting activity, but never knew where to begin. This guide covers: astrophotography with a tripod piggyback astrophotography prime focus astrophotography using an autoguider to take astrophotos. From the guide: “One Read More …
Episode 10 of Star Hopping – published December 3rd, 2015 In this episode of Star Hopping with KPO, we’ll be exploring the Canis Major region, and using our star hopping methods to find Messier 41, Messier 46 & 47, and the Tau Canis Majoris Cluster. Constellation: Canis Major, Puppis Deep Sky Objects covered: M41 – open Read More …