Looking good in H-alpha with some big prominences and filaments. Best I’ve seen in awhile. One prom looks like a dancing girl – to me anyway. See what you think. Roy

HI Mel. Mark here. I have a friend who may be interested in a mount like yours. I think it has two drives for tracking? He is in a place where Polaris is hard to find. Roy asks. Thanks Mel.

Observing Saturday April 22 does not look too promising weather wise. I'll make the go/ no go call by 3 (1500) Saturday.

We had a good night at Dowdy Park in Nags Head, NC last night. It wasn't exactly a "star party" we amateur astronomers are used to, but the party atmosphere and the friendly crowds made it a fun time.

I'm planning on going. The forecast for transparency/seeing is starting to look a little iffy according to Astropheric.com. If the forecast holds it won't be bad by 10pm.

Looks like a good night for it. I'll be down in North Carolina with Gabriel, Jeff G., George, and Jeff T. for the statewide star party. Have fun.

Is anyone planning to observe from Cornland tonight?

Just noticed the by-line on the “Astro Letter” to Astronomy Magazine titled “Missing Mission” on page 6 of the May Astronomy: George Reynolds, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Congrats George! Ted BBAA south

Last night I recorded what I thought was a good observation of Minkowski 1-7. It was where it was supposed to be, using an Ultrablock filter it behaved like I expect a planetary nebula to behave and a

One evening last summer I set up my scope out on the patio for some later observing. I went inside to wait for it to get dark and unbeknownst to me a small rain cloud opened up while I was inside. Whe

Yes, Planet Mercury, please beware! Your sodium tail could be your undoing: https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=15&month=04&year=2023 If I remember correctly, one of the arguments that bon

Spring is the worst time for deep sky observing in light polluted skies because of so many faint galaxies. Therefore I rolled out the 25" and did the best I could. One non-galaxy object stood out beau

George and Shawn, all that were at TCC last night, thank you for a nice welcome and response to the talk about meteorites. A special thanks to the TCC staff that made it a nice 30 year home coming for

New is a relative term it seems. These applicable posts are from the Amastro list: In his Visual Observations of Planetary Nebulae, Kent Wallace says "Jay McNeil has the first known visual sighting of

Long skinny prom on the SE. limb that may be, or is becoming, another “solar tornado”. Kent found it at 1:30 pm, still there, maybe growing, now. On the opposite limb is a nice large fan-shaped prom.

See link below to Astrobin site. This is SkAc 1, discovered by Brian Skiff and Agnes Acker from POSS II plates. It’s in Bootes, not far from Arcturus, so it’s up in evenings now. Image coordinates are

Lats night was the second night of great weather in a three night run. I had a lot of fun with Kent Sunday using the 5 but felt it was time to go to a moderately darker, though not dark site, to try t

This video has a nice section on desert varnish. That sample I had for a rock that looked like a meteorite but wasn't had desert varnish which can look like a charred meteor surface to the unwary. Go

A big THANK YOU to all who bought raffle telescope tickets! If my figures are correct, we added $805 to the Georgie June scholarship fund. Now both scholarship accounts are fully funded. We are waitin

Well, the BIG NEWS (aside from the firemen coming to free Shawn, Curt and me from a stuck elevator) is the results of the drawing for the Raffle Telescope, the Celestron Starsense refractor. .... And