I was most impressed by Rolf's jupiter images and by Bob's deep sky image. I particularly like the "iris nebula" (irc). The combination of an emission nebua...
The Sandrella restaurant has one the poll. Sandrella doesnt take reservations, so just show up. I suggest the first OAF to arrive should grab 10 seats. I...
Our site is back online with a new version of the wiki software. A couple of additional anti-spam measures are now in place. OAFs should not see any...
There were a half dozen or more tents and cars at Nirvana this weekend with a few more people than that to fill them. A few brought more than one scope so it...
I've restarted to poll to decide where OAFs will congregate to have dinner this friday, 17:30-ish. Afterwards, may OAFs goto the RASC meeting at the museum of...
Mike's MoK star party was last night. Quite a few scopes attended - 8? 9? - including a variety of size SCTs, refractors, newtonians, and binos. No dobs, big...
Saturday... Clearing in the morning. The few residual afternoon clouds shouldn't be much of a problem as they should burn out late in the day or in the...
I just manually updated the csc's for Mikes observatory and Nirvana. The forecast for Mikes is better in the early evening. Nirvana's forecast catches up later...
The weather for Saturday looks so nice that I'm thinking I wouldn't mind getting there early... say noon or so. We could setup for solar observing, relax in...
A strong high-pressure system is expected to move in the area this weekend and persist for several days. Above-average to excellent transparency can be...
From this morning's latest weather models... Friday night... Cloudy/showers Saturday... clearing around noon, a few possible residual clouds late in the day,...
For several years I've had a spare-time activity of assembling the equipment and skills for imaging. (I don't have the tracking error on my G11 down to my...
The CSC for Ottawa looks amazing, but the predicted cloud map does not match the latest satellite image. I brought my stuff up from the basement and staged it...
I don't know Mr. Pizzle but what a great shot of Plato Mr. Pizzle (Micheal)!! I did some lunar imaging on Aug 20 but with only 5.2" of aperture and the usual...
Weather for those planing to go to Nirvana... Friday night.... clearing after 2am (depends on the clouds movements). Saturday night... Clear skies! Sunday...
Hi Folks, It looks like we have clear skies tonight as long as you are between Montreal and Thunder Bay!!! Too bad about the moon. Bob [Non-text portions of...
When life gives you lemons ... make lemonade. Well, maybe that isn't fair because the moon is hardly a lemon, but when it bleaches everything else out, might...
We have only 2 votes for the 23rd, which by our previous convention does not meet quorum. So I suggest that we do not ask the MOK staff permission to hold a ...
Hi all, Here's my photos of this year's excellent Perseid shower, from the morning of August 12. All photos where I found meteors are stacked into the...
Lot of fun tonight. Steve, Allen, Al and I showed up with scopes. The seeing was not bad. I could see some fine detail in the bets of Jupiter with my 4" at...
The weather will be much better than friday and we have more oafs available. In anticpation of general agreement, I've changed the calendar and bits of oafs.ca...
Hi all, With thick cloud cover appearing to persist above Ottawa, I packed the car and got ready to travel 180 km to the west of Ottawa, where a clear bubble...
I've created a poll so people can vote to join Mike Earl at this star party held at MOK on the 29th: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/OAFs/surveys?id=2748547...
Hi Attilla, Please keep in mind that Mike Earl has scheduled the following: http://www.castor2.ca/parties/index.html These are advertized in the local papers....
