To follow up a bit on what Ted said about his 10 inch beating his 18 inch on planets; this would not be unexpected. As aperture goes up the ability to finely...
Since my post of the WR 134 nebula was news here, I thought I might also post this, again from the Amastro list, dealing with the new planetary PM 1-333. The...
Fellow BBAA'ers, Just a reminder about the September 2009 BBAA Club Meeting. The September meeting will be held at 7:30 PM, Thursday, September 3rd,2009 in the...
Thanks Dale for packing up early bringing on the clear skies. Â Carpe Noctem Bill McLean Thanks Dale for packing up early bringing on the clear skies. Carpe...
Fellow BBAA'ers, Just a reminder about the September 2009 BBAA Club Meeting. The September meeting will be held at 7:30 PM, Thursday, September 3rd,2009 in the...
An interesting view from Mount Wilson. If you go to Spaceweather.com there is a link to the live cam on the solar observatory. Interesting view with fires...
Finally, here's the Cresent nebula...had to learn a few new techniques to deal with this one. It's done in narrowband and sometimes that can prove to be a...
Since the HST servicing mission no. 4 ended successfully about two months ago, we have not heard much from the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, have...
Hey all, I sold my Orion XT12i on Astromart last week, and now I'm looking at something I can actually use (the XT12, although a great scope, was just too big...
Hey all, I'm sure a lot of you have seen this already (maybe you haven't) however I purchased a program on iTunes called StarmapPro for my iPhone. It's $18.99...
A long-ignorred WR crescent has recently been rediscovered and observed by a few amateur astronomers. Please see Steve Gottleib's observation report below,...
^6pm - Sun setting, I just had to take a look. DANG!!! Some beautiful surface detail and a large dark area I would say is a sun spot. I don't have a white...
I noticed a small prominence yeaterday on the sun. Spaceweather reported it as a huge prominence. This is a sign of two things: either the reporting observer...
After hosting guests until midnight, I was able to get ready for the Io/Ganymede occultation. High alto stratus clouds gave a few minutes of anxiety but they...
Io and Ganymede wil have a grazing occultation tonight at 0148. A bit late for most but it will be there weather permitting. Io should dim as ganymede occults...
I saw the Space Shuttle last night while observing from a rooftop in Key West. It was so neat to see it. A few seconds after midnight I saw a curved,...
Europa and Io are set to occult on Monday night at a good time for observation, 2229 (1029pm). We have a busy occultation schedule coming up and I will keep...
I tried seeing Antares being occulted by the moon yesterday but only had 7x50 binoculars with me and just couldn't see it. After partaking in the famous Key...
We'll all miss you Jordan, but only temporaily. Actually, you won't be that far away at school so we'll see you when you come home occassionally. Study hard,...
Tomorrow at 1630 there will be a nice occultation of the bright star Anteres and the moon. The moon should be easily visible so if you have never seen a star...
The California El Nino is still playing havoc with our weather predictions here on the east coast. Wednesday night turned out to be pretty good as Stan and I...
Fellow BBAA'ers, Just wanted to give you all a heads up about tomorrow night's GardenStars. I have spoken with the NBG a few times today and they wish to hold...
Guys and Gals. In order to get a good date before Christmas and accommodate Jordan's request for a date after Dec. 15th so he could attend, I tentatively...
