We are considering the idea of having a public star party for the transit of Venus, on Thursday, June 5th. We have permission to use our proposed observatory...
I think this will be a good idea. I know a lot of us is been planning this for awhile and hope this turns out to be a large scale event. Here is to blue ridge...
Bob and all, I was just a visitor (but part-time Green Mountain resident) last summer on the square when you had the "big guns" out.... wow... you guys are...
Hey John, That's an excellent video! I had to watch it several times already, and I'm not done with it yet. To me it was especially interesting to see the...
Appalachian State University's Dark Sky Observatory (DSO) is having a public observing night on Saturday, Feb. 25th, 2012. It's free but you must have...
Sorry for the late notice. Good ISS pass tonight, flying from NW to ESE, reaching 61 degrees altitude to the NE at 7:13 PM. Look for it beginning at about...
Thanks for the heads up. We got outside just as it flew over the house. We had no idea it traveled so FAST!!! Was great to see it for the first time and know...
Hey Bill, Interesting that you saw it from down there in Florida! You're about 600 miles from here, so you got lucky to see it using the prediction for ...
Yeah, it moves pretty quick, 17,500 miles per hour. Very hard to manually track it with the telescope, but well worth the trouble to get a glimpse of the...
Sunday night the CBS TV show "60 Minutes" had a segment about Khan Academy. It's a website with hundreds of videos (usually 10 minutes or less in duration)...
Yeah Bob U saw 60 Minutes too and have also been checking out the Khan website. Amazing !!! On another note, I just heard the local newscaster say we will...
Last night I noticed APOD's photo of supernova 2012aw in M95 in Leo (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html). By the time I saw the page M95 was behind the...
I spent a couple of hours out last night from about 9:30 until after 11:30. I pretty sure I saw the SN in M95. I didn't realize what I was looking at and...
Hello everyone! As most of you know, we have been working on a plan to build a world class public astronomical observatory and star park here in Yancey...
Last night it cleared up real nice, and I was able to bag the M95 supernova! It's an easy target, quite a bit brighter than the one in NGC4790. Now if we...
Congratulations on the new partnership Bob. Sounds great. Bill Shervey Bill ... Congratulations on the new partnership Bob. Sounds great. Bill Shervey Bill...
Stars on the Square returns! We are now ready to resume our Stars on the Square events in Burnsville! Our previous events were so successful that the town...
Either day sounds good, as long as I have the following day off work. Having a slight moon might be nice for the visitors who aren't used to looking through...
Too bad about Golden Leaf. Hopefully Mayland will be able to help make this project come to fruition! If there's anything I can do to help, let me know. ...
