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

I am so sorry I did not get my number to you as things got busy at the end of the evening. I looked around and found you had left. Thanks for coming by. If you would like to get a hold of me you can a

Come to tonight's BBAA meeting and get your LAST CHANCE to buy tickets to win the raffle telescope. Also, if you ordered a T-shirt or hat or other BBAA apparel, the order has arrived, and will be at t

Please come IN PERSON to our BBAA club meeting Thursday night 4/6/23 at 7:30 pm at TCC Virginia Beach Science Building, room JC12. Mark Ost will be doing a show and tell of his meteorite collection. Y

The current sunspot group is increasing in size. It was a smaller "C" shape yesterday. Today getting bigger.

A stellar evening tonight. A near full moon, no pollen and comfortable temps. Lots of double stars to chase down in Orion and Cancer. Cheers Ian

A few photos I was able to capture on Friday, 24 March 23 from the capital city. All of these were taken on my Google Pixel 7 Pro with a tripod.

The skies were clear when 89 people exited the Chesapeake Planetarium’s show, Cosmic Symphony Thursday night. Despite the rather chilly temperatures almost all hung around to look at the moon in our C

Here's my take of Sh2-308 aka Dolphin's Head nebula. A difficult object because of it's location in the sky at this time of year. It's done in HaOIIIOIII at the Staunton River star party