M 13 in Hercules is visible at a descent hour. I have a challenge. Have you ever seen "The Propeller", aka "The Peace Sign" in M 13? They are 3 dark lanes that seem void of stars. Don't bother looking

92 folks were signed up for Thursday night's May 25th program, Tour of the Planets at the Chesapeake Planetarium. We had some breaks in the clouds as the crowd exited the planetarium. Mark O. brought

Norfolk Botanical Garden has cancelled tonight's scheduled Garden Stars event due to the adverse forecast of cloudy weather. Bummer! This is the third consecutive cancellation of Garden Stars. One of

Our next Garden Stars is tomorrow night at 2030. I see one definite (me) and three "maybes" in the RSVP for the event. Pray for clear skies. George George Reynolds "Solar System Ambassador" for South

We need some volunteers for the Friday Night Hike at Northwest River Park and for Saturday SUN Day at Elizabeth River Park on Saturday.. I will be out of town this weekend. So far, we have 1 "maybe" a

Check Heavens Above for your location – this is for mine: …Roy DateSatelliteBrightnessStartHighest pointEnd(mag)TimeAltitudeAzimuthTimeAltitudeAzimuthTimeAltitudeAzimuth24 MaySTARLINK-301182.621:25:39

I missed the live webinar yesterday, b ut is is available on this YouTube recording: NSN Webinar Series: Destination: Moon with Brian Day It is definitely worth watching, if you are a space nerd like

The June monthly meeting of the Back Bay Amateur Astronomers will be held in Room JC16 on the second floor of the science building, Tidewater Community College Virginia Beach campus at 7:30 pm Thursda

That give you something to measure Roy. Do you concur?

Notice that with the sunspot progression path you can easily envisage the orientation of the solar equator. Now notice it is at an angle that I will bet is around........................wait for it. 2

Continued haze as Canada is not burnt out yet. There is one large bisected sunspot close to the equator and a smaller group on the opposite side. If you have been following the sun you may have notice

The sky was clear, but smoke way off in western Canada is still giving the sky a milky look. I set up the Orion 14" Dobsonian, still not my favorite telescope, but it sets up easy, does not require a

Thanks to Kevin and Leah, both TCC Professors, for snapping this image of Omega Centauri! (from an automatic telescope with no eyepiece) Conditions were so bad, none of the others with larger scopes c

Very good in white light. A very large sunspot with light bridge is pointed at us.

Pretty active today – in H-alpha three prominences are over 4 times as tall as the Earth’s diameter, and one of them measures 10 times as wide – you’ll certainly know it when you see it. And in white

SN 2023ixf blinks in this cool double image: SN 2023ixf : Animated gif of two images before and after the supernova lit up. (jeffcrilly) - Full resolution astrobin.com

I'm a little under the weather and the weather does not look good for tonight so I am cancelling tonight's observing session. If someone else wants to host tonight, if the sky clears, text me 757 647

I regret to inform everyone, that tonights Astronomy Observing event at Fort Monroe, May 19th, 2023 is CANCELLED. The weather calls for total clouds and possible rain. Stay tuned for future events!

ok need more help, Anyone in the area have an lx200 GPS with autostar 2 need to catch up to try out my controller on your scope, see if it works. The one the club has is a autostar 1 and the cable is

NASA Skywatchers and Fort Monroe are sponsoring an Astronomy Observation event May 19th at the north end of the runway across from the Paradise Club, weather dependent. Planned setup time starts at 7: