Hello everyone, Did anybody spot any meteors last night? I went out for about 15 minutes at around 2am and saw nothing, but a little bit of cloud cover. Just...
I received a positive email from Elaine about our proposed trip out to Echo Ridge Observatory. She seems eager to host our expedition, along with the Echo...
This issue of "Science" has a news article about China's answer to Sloane Digital Sky Survey. It is LAMOST and is supposed to go wider and deeper than SDSS. ...
Ohhhhhhh...go for it Todd! Terry ... From: blueflagella To: bmastro@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 5:02 PM Subject: [bmastro] Re: LAMOST ... Do tou...
Thanks to every one who helped me with the Digital Setting Circles that came with my Discovery 15 inch F5 Dob ( Smiley ) during Astronomy Day. I found and...
Wow, Wayne. Cool!! Mike From: bmastro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bmastro@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Manly Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:31 PM To:...
The ISS is returning to the Tri-City skies this week. The chart below is from Gray. Terry Date Mag Starts Max. altitude Ends Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az. Time...
The weather for Sunday, May 25 looks promising. Sunset at 2034 and Moonrise at 0024 Monday morning. We should be able to get several good hours of observing....
I am up for observing sunday night!!! Todd ... Moonrise at 0024 Monday morning. We should be able to get several good hours of observing. I talked with Jon...
I have been working on Smiley's digital setting circle system. I have been getting a star alignment score of warp 40 and above. I found that the AZ encoder...
Hi Mike, Hopefully we will have clear skies and several BMACers there to see first hand what the 14nm will do with the IIE. Unless someone else wants to I will...
Dear Astronomers: The Phoenix lander is scheduled to land on Mars (in the polar regions) tomorrow night a little before 7:00 PM. You can watch it live on NASA...
For those of you on cable TV, tonight from 7:00 till 9:00 pm on Discovery Science channel (112 in Kingsport) there will be live coverage of the landing of Mars...
Perhaps, you could bring the tape to a meeting? Or maybe Paul Lewis could get us some edited tape on the landing? Many of us will be going to Whitetop on...
WOW! The first pictures are stunning! I can't wait to see what follows. So now its... Earthlings 6, Martians 6! (re: 6 of 12 attempts - if I recall correctly) ...
Hydrogen Alpha Observing the Night of May 25, 2008 Eight BMAC club members traveled to White Top Mountain in SW Virginia for an observing session to be held...
Terry, altough I am stil waiting on my pier (18 months and counting), I was wondering if I could go along on one of these trips without a scope just to observe...
I'm happy to report that no bears wandered by in the night. It did get rather windy and cooler around 4 am and I had to retreat to the car. Hiking to Mt Rogers...
Mike, There were plenty of scopes for observing. We did have one person who came along, sans scope. My scope dewed up early, after observing Mars and Saturn....
Thanks, Greg! I will watch the group to see when several of you are planning another trip. I would like to tag along. Mike From: bmastro@yahoogroups.com...
I would think that it would be easy to see. I have seen the jet, visually, through a larger 22" scope. I could be wrong. I look forward to the report of when...
