Let's hope we have at least ~some~ clearing Sunday night. I posted this on BBAA Facebook page but in case you're not on Facebook here it is. It's always worked for me. Remember use the "300" rule if y

Tomorrow night's scheduled Garden Stars has been cancelled due to a bad weather forecast. Norfolk Botanical Garden has cancelled the Garden Stars event scheduled for Thursday night, May 12 on account

Tonight's Boardwalk Astronomy is cancelled. Hope to see you next month instead.

Hi all, Just finished a great read that I’m sure some of you have already read. In case you haven’t, The Sun Kings details the start of modern solar observation and discoveries from the mid-1800’s to

If you get a chance the sun is good this morning.................and it is good to see the sun.

Here is the number you need to join the meeting tonight: 839 487 0739

In 2016 the BBAA club officers held a very successful workshop where they assisted club members in building their own solar filters and/or dew heaters. Over the last few months we have heard quite a f

Is anyone going to the STEM Night tonight at St. Patrick Catholic School in Norfolk? So far, we have a few "No's" but no "Yes's" in the RSVP for the event. I have a conflict for tonight, so I probably

From the Webb blog … Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with ea

FYI – For those with a low eastern horizon and an alarm clock set to pre-dawn (say 5:30), Venus will be very near Jupiter tomorrow morning 4/30/22. Naked eye they may look like one bright UFO. Roy Dif

I know I've been under a rock for a while (not by choice, mind you), but I never heard of the Mercury sodium tail. Has anyone else? "Keep looking up!" Dino. -----Original Message----- From: SpaceWeath

Cub Scout Pack 700 will be camping at Northwest River Park this weekend, and we have the opportunity Friday night 4/29 (tonight) during Cornwatch to help them see the stars. So far, (as of 8 a.m.) no

CORRECTION to the original message: The Cub Scouts will be at Northwest River Park, not Cornland, so disregard the instructions to turn off the parking lot light. George George Reynolds "Solar System

Sunspot AR 2994 is on the limb of the sun today in poor seeing. If you wait for a good moment you may see the Wilson effect. Sunspot 2995 will put on a better show in a few days for the effect. AR 299

Mark O. is right, there are a couple of nice prominences on the sun today in H-alpha light. Here's an eyepiece projection picture taken with an old Celestron 25mm eyepiece though a Coronado 40mm scope

Update. 0921. The two proms are growing quite large. They have changed over the hour and are now very high off the sun. As sunspot AR 2994 rotates off the face this may be a good chance to observe the

The active sunspot group continues it's progress off the face of the sun. It does make for interesting surface detail especially if you have a double stack. There are two large prominence today that a

I had to use a 4mm eyepiece in my 150mm telescope to split the double star Struve 1426 in Leo last night. With a separation of 0.9" that's close to the theoretical limit of a 6". At 280x it wasn't all

What part of do not machine wash, dry flat, did you not read on your TOA 152 telescope? You know that label that says "under penalty of law do not remove" This is what happens if you don't heed the la

Hey Mark, I checked that Brandon 24mm eyepiece I was telling you about and it is labeled as a Vernonscope.