Wow, a wonderful night last night. I haven't been out much this summer - the late night arrival of darkness and the early morning wakeups with the dogs had kept me from doing too much. Finally it's ge

Here you go ...Registration is open! Stu Beaber ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Staunton River Star Party <stauntonriverstarparty@...> Date: Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 7:15 PM Subject: Staunton

OK, I did it, so I found a 12" Orion SkyQuest XXg Go To TRUSS Dob that the owner said he couldn't get it to work. All else works fine as a push to. I paid 600 figured as a stand alone is worth that. S

Say Betelgeuse three times fast. More fun happening. https://spaceweather.com/

https://alcon2022.org/ Carpe Noctum Bill McLean

In lieu of using my 10-inch Dob, I have access to Samantha's 8-inch Orion Dob. It's her scope, but it lives at my house, and I have her permission to use it. I also use the 6-inch Orion Starblast refl

Looks like a clear sky tonight., 3/4 moon Saturn up high enough after 9:30, - M2, M22, Lagoon, Wild Duck, M55 and the usual suspects, I know, I'm dreaming. SEE YOU THERE DC

This is my previous Obsession 18” UC bought in 2018 and reposted in a Quantum TeleKit by Astro Systems who is in La Salle Colorado up near Greeley, but is 150 miles from Westcliffe. Sent from Chuck's

I will leave it for Kent to elaborate as I am just going to hit a high spot or two that I saw from my scope last night. Kent will have more doubtless especially on Saturn. Roy, we owe you. As the clou

I think the prominence on the sun is even larger today (Aug 4 2022) than yesterday. It's been suggested it extends 200,000 above the solar surface.

We had a lot of fun under perfect seeing excellent transparency and a cooler evening last night. It is getting darker earlier now so that helps a fair amount. Before Kent came out I took the opportuni

BTW according to Spaceweather.com, a pretty reliable site, the loop prom spans the distance of the earth/moon system. That is pretty long. Approximately 250,000 miles. A quarter of a million mile prom

I know most of you have seen this from Night Sky Network but most of us can get the Eclipse Ambassador. Look at # 3. Others may want to look at the others, no long term stuff. D.Carey -----Original Me

The BBAA was approached by a family in Norfolk looking for advice on the value of some high-end optical telescopes they want to sell. The father, Dr. Joseph Guth, passed away and left the family with

One thing of note. The prom is so big and detailed you might be able to stay at the eyepiece and see change. I hung out for a couple of minutes but the heat is a bit much. I did come back and the prom

The prominence on the sun yesterday is even larger today. It's simply amazing to see in an H-alpha light telescope!

If you don't mind melting while observing.

There is a large prominence on the sun today, August 2, 2022, 9:30 am. Kent

Richard Roberts is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: BBAA Monthly Meeting Time: Aug 4, 2022 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Every month on the First Thu, 10 occurrence(s) Aug 4, 2

I hope everyone tunes in to the BBAA meeting this week as we have a really good speaker. The presentation title is "The Indispensable Role of Amateur Astronomers in Exoplanet Discoveries" by Dennis Co