In order, oldest to youngest ABC A has its circular rim broken by B, so A must predate B. Now B and C are a bit harder. All the craters are circular. B's ring, though, appears to be truncated or flatt

What is the order of creation oldest to youngest?

I broke my controller (don't ask me how) Does anyone have an Autostar controller they'd like to give me or trade for cash? Thank you, Carpe Noctem Bill McLean

Hi folks, I need some help. Is there anyone out there who is good at collimation, especially the secondary mirror? I bought a nice used 8" dob for my daughter-in-law and it was pretty dirty so I took

Mars looked very good Monday night. I was even able to use up to the 1.6mm Vixen eyepiece with the 4 inch in order to get a very fine, sharp, view of the red planet. Mars was very clear around 7 to 9

Here's one of M45 the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters. I spent time on this visually with my refractor the previous night. A picture can never capture just how beautiful it looks in a scope. Still us ph

Our monthly BBAA meeting is tonight, and there is no reason we can't have maximum attendance, since you don't even need to leave home to attend! Until TCC is open and available, we are continuing onli

There are one large and one medium-sized sunspots on the sun, both on the SE limb of the sun visible at about 20x through properly filtered telescopes. Don't expect much in H-alpha light but at least

Last night was remarkable for the worst seeing that I can remember as well as 95% humidity. It was impossible to see anything on Mars and difficult to even focus on the planet. The most interesting th

Oh yes there was wind shear

Actually got in a couple of hours of observing last night and accomplished quite a bit for a full moon night. Though the full moon is regarded as the least interesting time for lunar observing there a

I'm so scared! With the pandemic I'm not expecting many trick-or-treaters at my house tonight, especially since the youngest person in my Kempsville neighborhood is 37 years old. Here's a solar report

Just a bit of follow up on the O-Rex mission: The OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully stowed the spacecraft’s Sample Return Capsule (SRC) and its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu. On Wednesday, Oct.

Sorry to say, last night's Garden Stars was cancelled by Norfolk Botanical Garden due to weather. The sky was totally overcast. I didn't get the word, though NBG had left me a voicemail and sent an em

Remember to attend the November meeting of the club! It will be hels online via Zoom at the following link: https://vccs.zoom.us/j/96840800899 Meeting ID: 968 4080 0899 November is also ELECTION month

Another Garden Stars event is on tap for tomorrow night at 7:30 pm, 10/27/2020. It was the one originally scheduled, but when they rescheduled the September session to Oct 22, I thought they dropped t

Here are my notes from viewing Mars last night in a small 120/900 refractor. It really is the best opposition I have ever seen. I tried all my filters, including nebula filters. Oddly enough, some dee

I will be there with a PowerPoint slide show, telescope, and handout materials. There will be a spectacular view of the Moon tonight, in between Jupiter and Saturn. We should have a good group. I hope

We are due to have a full house for Garden Stars. We'll need a few members with telescopes. There will be a nice conjunction of jupiter, the Moon, and Saturn. George Sent 9 Yahoo Mail on Android

There has been a substantial prominence visible with H-alpha telescopes on the eastern limb of the sun the past few days and it’s even larger today (Wednesday 10/21/2022). There is also a small sunspo