Well not spectacular but worth staying up for. Watched from about 12am till 1:30am. I guess I saw one about every 5 minutes. Two were quite nice with some color and a longer duration.

Selling my complete 9.25 scope, Losmandy tripod, Borg scope, and imager. Too heavy to use and wife has given ultimatum "Her or scope". I considered keeping it.LOL. No reasonable offer refused. 50% sal

Date: Saturday, 7/16/2022 Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Location: Elizabeth River Park, 1400 Elizabeth River Way, Chesapeake, VA 23324 (Under the Jordan Bridge) All BBAA members and their families are invi

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Hi folks. It's time to sell my telescope and mount. I live in the woods so can't enjoy just rolling it out of my garage to use and the scope and mount are just too bulky and heavy at my age to lug aro

Let me say........................." I hurtz Uncle Kent." Actually I had a superb night at Tallman's house. It was just me and 1 million mosquitos as the sun set around 2130. It actually takes until 2

From http://mercury.pr.erau.edu/~prcphysics/observatory/meteors.htm When a meteor burns upon entry into the atmosphere, atmospheric gases are ionized creating conditions that will reflect terrestrial

I understand the NASA Skywatchers are using Upper County Park (Toano/West Point exit off I-64) as their 'Dark Sky" site since their site/land in Barhamsville was "lost". I live about 1.6 miles south o

Jeff Goldstein was able to get permission for us to have another watch party at the fairgrounds in Windsor. It's a pretty dark sky with a good view of the horizon in all directions. The peak is suppos

Last night was so clear I couldn't resist seeking a dark sky. Summer nights are short with astronomical twilight at 10:00 pm EDT but I made the best of it. I set up my 10" Orion Dobsonian in Gates Cou

Hello out there. Brad Thomas the ranger has asked us to set up an observing session Sunday 29 May. Good moon phase-new or close to it. They are doing a night hike and they end with us as kind of a cul

Hey, All, I saw this in my SpaceWeather newsletter and thought I would pass it on. (Hopefully it won't be a "dud" - their words, not mine.) "Keep looking up!" Dino. -----Original Message----- From: Sp

I've been threatening to replace the focuser on my 16" f/6.2 Dobsonian for 25 years. I finally made the move. After changing out the focuser, never as easy as task as one might think I wanted to test

(This is a message I posted on our group out here in BBAA Southwest, aka Huachuca Astronomy Club, that I thought I’d share here)- Ted Many on this list have heard (read) me talking about the PVS-14 ni

Webb telescope nearly set to explore the solar system https://phys.org/news/2022-05-webb-telescope-explore-solar.html

I rolled out the 16" f/6 last night in the very light polluted skies of Virginia Beach. Have any of you seen the illusive planetary nebula NGC 4361 in Corvus? It's an easy target with large telescopes

Great event Bob. Thank you for hosting.

In 2016 the BBAA club officers held a very successful workshop where they assisted club members in building their own solar filters and/or dew heaters. Over the last few months we have heard quite a f

Kent, I know I swore to NOT get too involved so I could concentrate on building our observatory and getting some cool deep sky images. But damned if it didn’t happen anyway. They made me a board membe

There are some nice surface details on the sun this morning (May 17, 2022). Here's a quick B&W and color picture I took early morning when the seeing was good.