Miami-Dade Astronomy Institute Project

12/16/2022

A "happy amateur astronomy experience" begins at home.

The best place to enjoy the explorations of the Night Sky is at the home backyard with family and friends.

Electronically Assisted Astronomy, EAA provides the Amateur Astronomer the opportunity of visiting HUNDREDS and perhaps THOUSANDS of Planets and Deep Sky Objects, DSO's. such as Galaxies and Nebula with the aid of a telescope, an un-cooled or cooled CMOS camera, a reasonable accurate Equatorial EQ mount (or even Goto AZ/EL could work), and the help of a marvelous modern device such as ASIair, and an Ipad or Android tablet or cell phone, IN SPITE OF OUR LIGHT POLLUTION (The writer's backyard is at Bortle 8 bordering Bortle 9).

We began our Home Backyard EAA Journey on the evening of November 5, 2022. Our journey continued on November 11,13,14,17,23,26 and 27; December 4, 8, 10, 12 and 14, thanks to the wonderful South Florida weather and the convenience of doing it at home.

We have ALREADY saved 150 images of very interesting astronomical objects.

Electronically Assisted Astronomy, EAA could be your introduction to astro-photography or an interesting vehicle for a more frequent use of your imaging equipment.

TRY IT, YOU MAY LIKE IT!

Thank you for reading this and Clear Skies.

09/13/2019

MIAMI RADIO AMATEURS WILL BE LAUNCHING FOUR HIGH ALTITUDE BALLONS THAT SHOULD CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE PLANET

Miami High Altitude Circumnavigating Balloon Project·Friday, September 13, 2019·
MIAMI HIGH ALTITUDE CIRCUMNAVIGATING BALLOON PROJECT plans to launch four High Altitude balloons that should reach an altitude of approximately 10,000 meters (32,800 feet), hopefully circumnavigating our planet Earth.
They are tentatively scheduled to be launched in November 2019, December 2019, January 2020 and February 2020.
Each balloon voyage after launch should be trackable. They will be carrying a very light payload powered by Solar Cells, with GPS and sensors capable of transmitting in HF in Hybrid WSPR Mode every two minutes during daylight: its ID, Location, Altitude, Temperature, and Voltage.
If you are a Scout Leader, Teacher, or an Advanced Student at any of our Colleges and Universities Science, Technology, Engineering or Math Programs and are interested in what we are doing we would love to hear from you. Please contact us at [email protected]
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07/04/2019

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03/10/2017

Almost a full Luna!

03/08/2017

Good morning to all!
The happy Amateur Astronomy experience happens at home.
We took this picture of the Moon last evening, at about 7pm from our backyard terrace with our Canon Rebel T3i on the side focuser of our 4 inch Maksutov - Cassegrain Celestron NexStar 4SE. Please Enjoy it.
With blessings,
Ofelia and Juan A. Granados

02/15/2017

Another happy amateur astronomy experience at our home in suburbia SW Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Again, thanks all!

Last evening was a wonderful evening. Right after sunset, I began and completed the SkyAlign procedure of my Celestron NexStar 4SE.

Again, ALL OF NORTH NEIGHBORS SPOTLIGHT WERE OFF!!!

Weather was pleasantly cool, and there were no mosquitos or noseums.

And again he visited with his oldest son. Were here about one hour and promised to return tonight and spend more time. They were both very inquisitive and helpful.

What changed? We can now see Polaris with our own eyes, We observed a very faint Andromeda Galaxy in NNE sky, a spectacular Pleides, many, many double stars, The Great Orion Nebula, star clusters and the crowded neighborhood of stars stretching from the NNE to SWS moving NNW which is our own Universe our Milky Way.

This evening, if conditions are as good as last evening, we plan to be also taking out the 8" Orion XT8i Intelliscope Dobsonian, for another evening of observation.

Our wishes to all: clear nights and many happy amateur astronomy experiences.

With regards

Juan

MIAMI-DADE ASTRONOMY INSTITUTE PROJECT.
https://sites.google.com/site/astrophotographyamateurs/home
Celestron NexStar 4SE; Orion 8XTi Dobsonian;
Explore Scientific 80mm triplet; Orion tabletop (Dobsonian) GoScope 80mm (f4.375) TableTop Refractor;
Multiple 1.25" and 2" eye pieces and barlows; Multiple 1.25" filters, i.e: Lumicon OIII; Orion UltraBlock; Orion Variable Polarizer; etc.
12V Harbor Freight's Chicago Jump Start; 12V Harbor Freight's CEN-TECH 3in1 portable POWER PACK;
NexImage 5 and NexImage Reducer Lens; Canon 600D with T mount; Celestron 1.25" T adapter; Newer MC-36B Timer Remote Controller;

Promotes grassroots empowering of the individual amateur and professional astronomer, astrophotographer and their societies to reach for children and their science teachers to interest them in the astronomy and astrophotography hobby by sharing their experience. Recognizes the connection between Ast...

12/31/2016

YOUR OWN NEW YEAR'S EVE STARGAZING PARTY WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS AT YOUR HOME BACKYARD.
Please visit: https://lnkd.in/e53vYVx
And our wishes for a happy new year for all,
Ofelia and Juan A. Granados

The MIAMI-DADE ASTRONOMY INSTITUTE PROJECT https://sites.google.com/site/astrophotographyamateurs/ is an "ad-hoc" group of MIAMI-DADE County, Florida enthusiasts, that promote the hobby of Astronomy and astro-photography, and a "happy amateur astronomy and/or astrophotography experience". That, the…

12/30/2016

The MIAMI-DADE ASTRONOMY INSTITUTE PROJECT https://sites.google.com/site/astrophotographyamateurs/ is an "ad-hoc" group of MIAMI-DADE County, Florida enthusiasts, that promote the hobby of Astronomy and astro-photography, and a "happy amateur astronomy and/or astrophotography experience".

That, the best place to enjoy the explorations of the Night Sky is at the family home backyard with family and friends.

They share among themselves, and with others, their experiences and welcome everyone!

They promote, the grassroots empowerment of the individual amateur and professional astronomer and their societies, to share their experiences in astronomy with local children and their Science Educators.

They recognize the connection between Amateur Astronomy with the academic disciplines of Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Sciences, Astronomy, Geology, Geography, Anthropology, Biology and Environmental Sciences.

They believe that through an interest in Astronomy, our children could find incentives to pursue higher educational careers in Science.

12/27/2016

THE URBAN BACKYARD DEEP SPACE IMAGING CHALLENGE.

This provoking video from Harvard University, may invite some of us to conduct some experimenting at our own backyards....

"Astrophotography with Small Telescopes" with James Chamberlain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PTOa0d1Rko

Our best wishes for all for a healthy, happy, prosperous with many clear nights, year 2017.

Ofelia and Juan A. Granados

An 18-minute demonstration of the power of small telescopes from urban settings to photograph the night sky. The beauty of the Milky Way revealed! Date: 9-19...