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By Shawn Loescher ·

Getting Ready for 2024 Eclipse 5

I just made my reservation at Econo Lodge, Norwalk, Ohio for 7-9 April, 2024. There are several sites near there where I may be able to set up a telescope, and numerous roads in case I have to go some

By George Reynolds ·

Lord Ross' telescope

Here is the only picture I have seen showing the eyepiece placement.

By jimcoble2000 ·

Correction

The leviathan at Parsontown did have a secondary at 90 degrees. My mistake. It was Newtonian design.

By jimcoble2000 ·

M 13 in Hercules 7

M 13 in Hercules is visible at a descent hour. I have a challenge. Have you ever seen "The Propeller", aka "The Peace Sign" in M 13? They are 3 dark lanes that seem void of stars. Don't bother looking

By Kent Blackwell ·

Chesapeake Planetarium 2

92 folks were signed up for Thursday night's May 25th program, Tour of the Planets at the Chesapeake Planetarium. We had some breaks in the clouds as the crowd exited the planetarium. Mark O. brought

By Kent Blackwell ·

Garden Stars CANCELLED by NBG due to cloudy weather 2

Norfolk Botanical Garden has cancelled tonight's scheduled Garden Stars event due to the adverse forecast of cloudy weather. Bummer! This is the third consecutive cancellation of Garden Stars. One of

By George Reynolds ·

Garden Stars Thursday night 2

Our next Garden Stars is tomorrow night at 2030. I see one definite (me) and three "maybes" in the RSVP for the event. Pray for clear skies. George George Reynolds "Solar System Ambassador" for South

By George Reynolds ·

Volunteers needed for Friday and Saturday 3

We need some volunteers for the Friday Night Hike at Northwest River Park and for Saturday SUN Day at Elizabeth River Park on Saturday.. I will be out of town this weekend. So far, we have 1 "maybe" a

By George Reynolds ·

Starlink TONIGHT 2

Check Heavens Above for your location – this is for mine: …Roy DateSatelliteBrightnessStartHighest pointEnd(mag)TimeAltitudeAzimuthTimeAltitudeAzimuthTimeAltitudeAzimuth24 MaySTARLINK-301182.621:25:39

By Roy Diffrient ·

NASA recorded livestream of Moon exploration webinar

I missed the live webinar yesterday, b ut is is available on this YouTube recording: NSN Webinar Series: Destination: Moon with Brian Day It is definitely worth watching, if you are a space nerd like

By George Reynolds ·

June BBAA meeting at TCC

The June monthly meeting of the Back Bay Amateur Astronomers will be held in Room JC16 on the second floor of the science building, Tidewater Community College Virginia Beach campus at 7:30 pm Thursda

By George Reynolds ·

Omega Centauri 6

It’s amazing what just a couple of degrees of altitude does for Omega Centauri. It’s an easy naked eye object from my backyard observatory. The attached is a hand-held cell phone image taken through t

By Ted Forte ·

OH BTW sunspot is 4 earth diameters 3

That give you something to measure Roy. Do you concur?

By jimcoble2000 ·

Interesting further observation 2

Notice that with the sunspot progression path you can easily envisage the orientation of the solar equator. Now notice it is at an angle that I will bet is around........................wait for it. 2

By jimcoble2000 ·

The sun today

Continued haze as Canada is not burnt out yet. There is one large bisected sunspot close to the equator and a smaller group on the opposite side. If you have been following the sun you may have notice

By jimcoble2000 ·

Sunday May 21, 2023 11

The sky was clear, but smoke way off in western Canada is still giving the sky a milky look. I set up the Orion 14" Dobsonian, still not my favorite telescope, but it sets up easy, does not require a

By Kent Blackwell ·

FW:

Thanks to Kevin and Leah, both TCC Professors, for snapping this image of Omega Centauri! (from an automatic telescope with no eyepiece) Conditions were so bad, none of the others with larger scopes c

By Jeff Goldstein ·

Very large sunspot of face of sun today

Very good in white light. A very large sunspot with light bridge is pointed at us.

By jimcoble2000 ·

Sun on Sunday 2

Pretty active today – in H-alpha three prominences are over 4 times as tall as the Earth’s diameter, and one of them measures 10 times as wide – you’ll certainly know it when you see it. And in white

By Roy Diffrient ·

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