The coordinator at First Landing State Park has suggested we set up at 8:15 (instead of 7 or 7:30), since they have a night hike scheduled to come back to the parking lot at 8:30 pm. DRESS WARMLY! The

FYI Shawn Loescher Back Bay Amateur Astronomers, President backbayastro.org ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada <no-reply@...> To: president@... Date: Mar

The forecast isn't favorable for looking at the Sun tomorrow so this event has been cancelled. We will try again next month.

On April 2, from 7 to about 9 pm EDT, the Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast will start working on their astronomy badges, with a kickoff event at ODU's Pretlow Planetarium. They will see a sky show, a

What was your first printed star atlas? Mine was a 1964 edition of Norton's Star Atlas, followed by the beautiful Atlas Coeil (Atlas of the Heavens) by Antonin Becvar. The Sky Atlas 2000 that came alo

I'm afraid I won't be able to attend this Saturday. I'm having laser surgery on my left eye Friday, 3/18, and I don't want to strain it so soon thereafter. George George Reynolds "Solar System Ambassa

Last night's moon was SO bright and beautiful. 1114mm (1.6x crop factor, 1670mm equivalent focal length) 1/250-seconc exposure ISO 100

Was wondering if I could turn my telescope into a solar spectroscope yesterday. I have a stellar spectroscope/diffraction grating that works on bright stars but what about the sun? First warning: This

You know we take the Sun for granted. It has always been there and for all practical purposes (our purposes) will be. But think for a moment about this. How odd a ball of basically hydrogen, a bit of

I've been trying to photograph the moon each night since new but clouds have hampered the project. I had a very quick peek of the moon last night (March 8) through the clouds. Here's a 7-day old moon

Been asked about collimating dobs, everything I know is thanks to Kent, Ted and John (Raymond), (past pres. of the Richmond Astronomical Societry) Richmond v/r Chuck Jagow Member – Dark Skies of The W

I've been tracking the early phases of the Moon this month. I only had 1/2-hour or so clear skies on March 6 and only about 5 minutes last night, March 7. Both pictures taken at prime focus, 150mm f/7

The sun has been quite good the past two days. It has about everything you could want right now as the solar cycle deepens. There are excellent proms filaments and sunspots.

FYI ... To All, The Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) was planned for April 9-10. Unfortunately, this is once again cancelled. Here is what Ed Siemann wrote in an email. Siemann is Executive Director f

Got up early again this morning to continue my experiment with High ISO and short duration exposures. My target this time was to get both the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas into the same shot. I made it ou

Remember to RSVP on the event on the calendar. Sunset is six o'clock, so plan accordingly. Next month we'll have to deal with (ugh!) Daylight Saving Time. Brian Lafitte, if you get this message, we wi

Robert Hitt has invited our club to partner with him for the total lunar eclipse on the May 15th. We're interested in participating in the event mentioned below at the same time with NASA but the plan

There are at least 6 small sunspots and one large on March 4, 2022, in white light. There is also considerable activity in H-alpha light.

Back on February 16 I wrote about some of my first star atlases. Unknown to me at the time the April 2022 issue of Astronomy Magazine has an article dedicated to that very subject. Norton's Star Atlas

A fellow, Chris Stopka, captured this image out here in Colorado night before last. One day prior New Moon. Thought I would share. v/r Chuck Jagow Member – Dark Skies of The Wet Mountain Valley Member