I am thinking of selling some of my Explore Scientific eye pieces to purchase a 10mm Delos. What would be a good place on line to do that? Thanks for any advice you can provide. Jonathan

I'm also just using an excel spreadsheet with a few modifications. I think that is working OK for me.

That's great George! I'm been struggling with the Galaxies at my house. Seems to take me three or four tries before I can see them with averted vision. When I do see them they are very faint and I cer

Thanks Jim. The Staunton event is located pretty close by and is not until October; I've heard good things about this event from some of the group members. I'm hopeful that this one will happen and I'

Thanks Shawn. I've been looking over the list and I would be interested in attending one or more of these. Does the group do any organizing to attend these events? Maybe just a list of folks who are p

Good catch. I ordered mine. Thanks!

Very nice. I have been working on my visual galaxy observations skills with my C8. I can make out M65 and M66 but I've tried and tried and I still haven't been able to make out NGC 3628. I'm working o

I see that Big Meadows on the Skyline drive is supposed to be a good dark site that is very popular with astronomy groups. I was just wondering if anyone in the BBAA group has done that (pre covid of

I remember being on the field near the track at Plaza Junior High in Virginia Beach. We observed by poking a pin hole in a piece of cardboard and projecting the image onto another piece of white cardb

The weather is finally looking good for some observing at Cornland and I'm looking forward to some dark site viewing.

I was under the impression there was a list of the presentations and I just wasn't able to find it. Thanks for the explanation - I got it now. Jonathan

Thanks Jeff. I've seen on Facebook that we've been telling folks that the meetings are recorded and available for viewing. I've tried to find the past presentations on Facebook and on the BBAA website

Thank you Ted. I will use the Astronomical League's Astronomical League's seeing and transparency guide using Polaris until I build up some experience is how to rate transparency. Reading about this h

I can just record the transparency in the session comments instead of the individual observation. That should work.

I plan to start working on the Astronomical League's "Urban Observing Program". For recording log entries it requires entries for "seeing and transparency" I would like to use Sky Safari and Live Sky

I had a great time at the watch last night. Thanks to everyone for letting me look through your scopes. Dark Skies do make a difference - I saw many things with my scope last night that I haven't been

I know that the last sky watch at NWRP was cancelled due to group camping being moved to the equestrian area. I see that the NWRP sky watch on July 7 is still on all of the event calendars. Is that ev

Very nice picture. I think open clusters are my favorites. I was observing last night as well and thought the seeing was very good. M2 and M15 looked really nice.

I did find the Cornwatch permit on the Nightsky Sky Network site for BBAA for the event. I would still like to know if anyone else will be attending this Friday. I don't want to be lonely out there

I joined the BBAA in October and the weather is looking good for this Friday’s Cornwatch. I just got a Celestron Evolution 8" SCT and I'm anxious to see how things look using it under dark skies. My p