I got off work a little early today and driving home I was looking at the moon coming up in the early afternoon; remembering that last night Jupiter and Saturn...
I'm afraid I might have caused some confusion at the meeting about what day Astronomy day is. The national Astronomy day by the Astronomical League is April 28...
I posted a few pictures of the Moon. They are not green, so no cheese. They turned out better than I figured. I did not do any processing to them. They are in...
The club has been invited to an Open House to celebrate the installation of the Clyde W. Tombaugh Memorial Window from four to six in the afternoon Saturday,...
On the 14th of Feb., Mir will be visible from the Amarillo area.<br>At 06:48, Mir will be Mv -1 at an altitude of 15 degrees in the NW.<br>It will rise (climb)...
Yesterday as I was leaving work and walking to my car the Sun was about 30 minutes from setting and blazing in the perfectly clear sky. I glanced up and there...
Pearre9433, It might be best if you followed someone to the observing site the first time, as it is in the middle of a field. A good meeting place would be the...
Last night started out poor and ended great. Tonight looks like it will be better. I am going to try to leave for Claude around 7. Dress warm, it got a little...
I did a little bit of observing last night when we got back from skiing in Colorado. First was NGC2903 in Leo, a 9.0 Galaxy. Pretty impressive from my back...
JPL reports that Asteroid 2001 DO47 will be (0.0039 AU) from Earth on 23 Feb. 2001.<br><br>When I load the orbital info into my program, it tells me that it is...
It looks ideal to attempt the 2001 version of a Messier Marathon on 3/24, the date for the new moon. It is time to make any plans we might have in that area....
A large eruption on the surface of the sun near a rather large sunspot (9393) has sent a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) outwards into space. This flare is...
Well it's that time again. What time is that? That could be a difficult question to answer at 2:00 sunday morning.<br>The last time we had to change our clocks...
WoW!, There has been a serious lack of activity here; yeah I know, blame it on the weather.<br>Well maybe This will get you off your butts.<br>C/2001 A2 ...
I found Comet A2 LINEAR tonight. I had to double check some surrounding stars to make sure it was the comet I was on and not NGC2167 because I had found it a ...
I observed the comet again last night from my drive way. It was large and non stellar, but I did seem to see one or 2 stellar obects inside the massive fuzzy...
As soon as I hit Post Message I look out the window and see the wind start to blow again. So maybe I’ll just wait and see if the winds die down for good ...
Well I got to Claude a little later than I meant to, had to put the finishing touches to a swing set. I left the house about 9:00. When I got there I found Bob...
The observing session was fun, but the wind was a bit of a pain. I was not sure I could remember how to set up the 20", so I got there early. Bob showed up ...
So far, the forecast for this weekend looks nice. I'm trying to get my act together for the weekend, and thus far, Dave and Nick are tentatively planning on...
