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:

I was going through a stack of old CD’s and found one with copies of the BBAA newsletter from 2003. I thought it would be fun to share one from 20 years ago. You’ll see some very familiar names, and b

In the next few nights, the Moon will go by Venus, Mars, stars Castor and Pollux, and the Beehive cluster (M44). Here is a link to illustrate: 2 planets, 2 stars and a star cluster May 22-24, 2023 2 p

Although we got clouded out yesterday, some people in other places were able to see the waning crescent Moon occult Jupiter. Here is a link that shows some pictures before and after the occultation. B

YRSP will be open for astronomy this Saturday night. I'll show up an hour before sunset. However the forecast looks dismal. I will make a go/no go call here 3pm ish Saturday. Carpe Noctem Bill McLean

The sun is very active today, both in H-alpha light as well as white light filters. Here's a white light filter picture I took at 10:00 am. 900mm f/7.3 Canon 60Da DSLR ISO 100 1/1600-sec exposure

Anyone going north this coming fall into winter, or for that matter south this summer, and is interested in photographing the aurora, this video will serve you well. Simon d'Entremont goes into great

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