Tonight should be a great night at the ERNC for Astronomy! Michael Paoletti is presenting on Neptune. Based upon his previous presentation this one should be...
AT 6:49 pm Alaska Time, NASA will launch the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope on top a Delta 2 rocket. Since the ERNC has wireless, I'll project the...
Thomas Tyler! Where were you and your 5" AP !! I will try again in two weeks. I was forced to < gasp! > use a 4.13" AP instead tonight! : ) I really need to...
Great images from Hirise's camera of Mars's moon Deimos but the site seems really slow this morning. http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/deimos.php Michael...
Scott, we briefly talked about Mars 2009-2010 at ERNC. It will peak in mid January 2010 and actually gets up to 15" in size -- so quite enjoyable and only...
March 20 - Richard Pellessier will present Preliminary Planning for the 2012 Transit of Venus Expedition. A portion of the talk will cover all past historical...
Press release from UAA: Astronomy collision! Two astronomy events on Friday the 20! Richard Pellessier will present on the 2012 Transit of Venus at the ERNC at...
Hi Scott,  My flight was delay for an hour and half in Seattle due to a snow storm... So after I got my bagage and rentacar in Orlando.. I could only get...
Welcome to Florida Michael! I am a "watcher" on this group because at one time I had considered a move to Alaska and wanted to check out the astronomy up...
I managed to follow M109 for over 2 hours last night. Mediocre seeing but it tightened up considerably around 4 AM. Unfortunately after the mount did its...
Mike, Looks great! It was off and on hazy here last night, so I didn't get out. What guider app do you use that had trouble guiding on Phad? You couldn't ...
Thanks Tom For guiding, I use the free program "PHD Guider" looking through a Meade DSI Pro camera on a 60mm piggybacked achromat. I try to use 5 second...
Mike, I know exactly what you mean. I too try to avoid having to change things. It seems like every time I want to make a little change (shift the guide scope...
Tonight the Clear Sky Clock seeing prediction is solid 5's EXCELLENT. Skies look clear too..... I'm going to collect RGB on M109 until it passes 70 degrees...
Sorry Mike, I've been out of town for a couple weeks. However, the clear skies clock looks good for tomorrow night 3/20. I've been down in Mexico where Orion...
Welcome back Tom. Simply excellent night ... go outside NOW... it's the quadruple whammy - dark, cloud free, transparent and stable. I am following M109...
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Mike, So did you get some color for M109? Cant wait to see. It was clear, but poor transparency, and marginal seeing last night, but I got almost 4 hours of...
I did get some color data for M109.. but I am having a devil of a time getting the image to look like anything but monochrome .... I THINK you can tell there...
Any other Alaskans going to next month's Texas Star Party? I'm renting a scope this year because of the shipping expense and hassle. It's a Johnsonian pop-up...
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