----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Mark Ost <jimcoble2000@...>To: kentblackwell <kent@...>; Roy Diffrient <mail@...>Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 08:51:12 AM EDTSubject: Excellent sunspot group

The sun continues to put on a text book display in white light. These are some of the most extensive sunspot pore groups i have seen in quite a while. Seeing this morning was very good early on, which

Here's a comparison of two test moon pictures I took over the past two evenings. I was surprised there's not a great difference between a 150mm refractor and an 80mm. Each picture was cropped to nearl

We had a surprisingly clear couple of hours after the Chesapeake Planetarium show Thursday night. Saturn looked absolutely beautiful through our 40+ year old Celestron C-14 telescope. Almost all 90 pa

A great evening last night for imaging. Here's a few hours in Ha on IC1795 also know as the fish head nebula. Cheers Ian IC1795

Talked to 300+ people at first landing event. Solar viewing showed two small sunspots which most adults and some of the older children could see at about 52x magnification. Passed out all the eclipse

Will someone who went to Skywatch Saturday, please go into NSN calendar and write up an event report? Thanks. George George Reynolds "Solar System Ambassador" for South Hampton Roads, Virginia Back Ba

There are some very active prominences and filaments on the sun this morning (October 19, 2022) in H-alpha light. Kent B

The YRSP open observing session now looks doubtful. The ECMWF (Euro model) has the coastal low developing about 12-hours sooner than initially anticipated. The GFS is more favorable for the first half

Ranger Brad confirmed we're a go for open observing on Saturday Night, 29 October, at YRSP. Bill will be posting a reminder w/ details mid-week.

A high étage overcast cloud deck has invaded the area literally within the last 30-40 minutes and there's no improvement in the forecast. We'll ask Brad & Charlie if we can re-schedule to next Saturda

I recently picked-up a C-8 on as ASGT. I've never used a Go-To equatorial and I haven't regularly used equatorial mounts, period, since about 1997. I have the polar scope calibrated and I plan to take

For those with hydrogen alpha filters for your telescope there are two huge prominences on the southwestern limb of the sun. In white light, there’s a large sunspot rolling around on the eastern limb.

0030 and the clouds have cleared away exposing Mars riding high in the east. I couldn't help myself so I grabbed the 80mm and my planetary eyepieces. Pretty good! This was the first serious Mars obser

This Saturday Night – 29 Oct – is the next open observing session at York River State Park. Since the last night hike of the season was in September, this is not an outreach event (it will not be post

This Saturday Night – 29 Oct – is the next open observing session at York River State Park. Since the last night hike of the season was in September, this is not an outreach event (it will not be post

To Go or Not To Go? Despite both the positive CSC & the Wakefield NOAA office forecast – it’s still cloudy. Looking at the composite visible satellite image at 1851Z: (https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov

North West South East

This Saturday Night – 22 Oct – is the next open observing session at York River State Park. Since the last night hike of the season was in September, this is not an outreach event (it will not be post

I had a great time at my first Staunton River Star Party this past week. We had clear skies four days, and had a lot of fun chasing those double stars, star clusters, nebulas, and galaxies. BBAA had a