I put my phone on a tripod in the backyard and took a 4 minute exposure. What do you all think this is? Aircraft? Meteors? If these are meteors than tomorrow night is looking promising. Since I couldn

The forecast doesn't look so good. WSaturday. Either way we can use the park, weather permitting, next saturday. Carpe Noctum Bill McLean

NGC1342 is a very nice open cluster in Perseus. It sort of reminds me of a scorpion - maybe a mini Scorpio. Cheers Ian NGC1342

Hi All. I'm in the market for a used 10-14" truss dob. I'd like to upgrade from my Orion 10" solid tube, and a truss dob will be much better for taking with me on vacation. I've narrowed my search for

This very large (think tennis court), reflective satellite has been around for awhile now, but was an early morning object. However recently it has also become an evening object -- and these things ju

Albedo features are quite easy to see tonight as Mars gets high in the sky. The Hellas basin and Mare Tyrrenium are easily seen as is Syrtis Major. I am using my 80mm F10 with a Takahashi 3.3 TOE eyep

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A few hours on a lovely little open cluster in Andromeda - NGC752. Cheers Ian NGC752

Clouds got in the way of the quest for all planets within 12 hours. Venus and Mercury will have to wait for another day this time. Venus is an easy daytime observation. Mercury is a bit harder though

Have a great turkey day. Cheers Ian

Started at 5 and finished at 1015 and might have kept going. The seeing was 9 out of 10 and the transparency was 10 for 10. Planets planets planets. Saturn was just excellent. It looked like one of th

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Happy Thanksgiving! I’m a true amateur when it comes to observational astronomy but the weather at my house was pretty good for an early evening observing session tonight. I was able to get good views

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We're gonna try it again tomorrow night at York River. The best forecast is on CSC. We'll see. I'll make a go/ no go call by 3pm Saturday and I'll get there an hour before sunset. If you have a scope

As usual the weather forecast was a study in contradiction. Maybe the weather agencies just say the opposite from each other in order to play the odds at 50/50. After an uninspiring soggy night Friday

Thanks, guys, for all the observing reports. I have been vicariously enjoying them. My wife and I have been sick since Thanksgiving, and so I have done no observing. I laid on the couch all day Saturd

Despite a cloud layer that persisted into the late night Kent and I were able to get in some observations that clouds don't hurt too much. We went through a series of double stars I had previously men

Don't forget to tell your friends and neighbors to come to TCC for the session on what to look for in a first telescope. I will be doing the presentation via ZOOM, with Shawn distributing handout mate

Yikes that was cold. I feel bent folded stapled and mutilated but we had fun tonight. Some brave souls stayed out longer than others. By the end of the evening my feet and hands were frozen and there