Friday 25 January 2013

Going to be imaging from the second largest freshwater island in the world!

I've decided to start a blog on my (mainly) astro imaging adventures on St. Joesph's Island, Ontario.  My parents bought a lovely second home on 3 acres there.  It's more then an hour from tiny Sault Ste Marie, and in the GREY zone for light pollution bordered by blue!  about as dark as you can get and still have electricity and running water.  No high speed internet unfortunately (yet).  To put things in perspective from the suburban white zone in Mississauga I have no problems changing the batteries in my electronic focuser by holding it up to the light glow I can easily see the + and - indicators.  There is no such thing as dark as pitch here, but there it's another story.  Even seeing what it's like when it's cloudy will be interesting because that will mean total darkness, not the orange glowing clouds we have here...

My first imaging attempt will be on February 9th and I can't wait!