It's a good one and worth a view. Richard went over light pollution and Planispheres. Also, I did not know you can actually hear meteors on the radio? Commercial FM radio stations (87.5 to 108 MHz) pr

As Bruce Powers spoke about at last Thursday BBAA general meeting, Virginia State Parks are embracing the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) standard for meeting the requirements to become Dark

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields the

Some good photos and predictions on where it will be in the coming days. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/comet-leonard-might-become-2021s-brightest-2022/

Tickets are available from any BBAA elected officer (including me) and will cost $10 each. The raffle will be held on April 7th, 2022 during the monthly club meeting which will take place at TCC Virgi

I look forward to it, after missing last years... Jeff

That mount is perfect! Just use the mounting plate and attach the PST scope to it and your in business. This scope is less than 5 pounds, so no counter weights are needed.

It does take some getting use to in order to view the prominence on the Sun. If you have a 1.25" eyepieces, it will work with this scope, but a barlow lens will not. The best EP I have found to use on

No experience with the Lunt, other that to look through Mel's at the Saturday SUN day events. But with the Coronado PST, I am having much better success with swapping the 26mm EP that was in the case

Thanks for the information. It looked like the sun was cracking open... This was through the Coronado PST H-Alpha Telescope. The standard one opposed to the double stacked version. As I adjusted the t

We had around 10 guests show up to look through George Reynolds and the clubs’ telescopes. George had his trusty 80mm short tube Refractor Telescope fitted with a sun funnel and I had the 40mm Coronad

I believe it's https://vccs.zoom.us/j/96840800899 Jeff Thornton

The Kalamazoo Astronomical Society is giving the lecture series "Introduction to Amateur Astronomy". This is a repeat of the one given last year, which I attended. Anyone wanting to know more about as

Great event at ODU last night.

Gabriel, I send you an email this morning. Did you get it? Jeff Thornton

Sounds were also coming off this Nebula...

Very nice. Your observation of Saturn moons got me searching on the Google machine and I came across this NASA website regarding Titan: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overview/

Just an FYI. This is an email I received from Richard Bell regarding the Introduction to Astronomy course : Hello, Amateur Astronomers. Thanks to everyone that attended (or at least registered) for th

Again today!! Looked through both the Hydrogen-Alpha and white light telescopes. The sun is extremely active this morning!

Congratulations George!! I know you have been working on this for some time.