Thanks to the Cape Fear Amateur Radio Society for allowing me to attend this STEM event at Fayetteville State University. Enjoyed seeing the students engaged in amateur radio. Looking forward to many of them for getting their amateur radio license!
US-6934
Activation #24
CW 3
Phone 13
Thanks to all the hunters and P2P. Not my best antenna installation but I made the activation. Nice not go need Tuner for 10, 17, 20, 40. Didn’t try 75.
Thanks to the astronomers and the visitors for coming to the September 2024 gathering. We got to see the moon and M13. The International Space Station even flew over the square.
Images from my Seestar S50 Monday September 9, 2024
NC US -8010 Mckinney Lake State Fish Hatchery
NC US-6947 Sandhills State Game Land.
September 7, 2024
US-8010 Contacts
According to Wiki-Sky The Index Catalogue (IC) —also known as the Index Catalogue of Nebulae, the Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, IC I, or IC II— is a catalogue of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters that serves as a supplement to the New General Catalogue. It was first published in 1895, and has been expanded to list more than 5,000 objects, known as the IC objects.
Here are three images I made
These images were taken by Mark Gibson with the Seestar S50 telescope.
M13
M57 4 minutes
M 17
US NC 6947 #39 Sandhills State Game Land
My first activation today since my birthday on June 18. I made 10 Morse code contacts and 1 SSB in Maine. Good to get back into it. I used my hamtenna vertical. Notice my fancy mobile set up.
85 minute exposure
Rockingham, NC This is an 85 minute image I made from my Seestar S50 telescope. I believe thus is my longest exposure I have made.
Compare this to the 18 minute exposure
IC 5070. 85 minute exposure
IC 5070 67 minute.
Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (the official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebulaby a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The Pelican, however, receives much study because it is a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The featured picture was produced in three specific colors — light emitted by sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen — that can help us to better understand these interactions. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming the cold gas to hot gas, with the advancing boundary between the two, known as an ionization front, visible in bright orange on the right. Particularly dense tentacles of cold gas remain. Millions of years from now, the Pelican nebula, bounded by dark nebula LDN 935, might no longer be known as the Pelican, as the balance and placement of stars and gas will surely leave something that appears completely different.
