Wait, wait...let me wipe of the drool from my mouth. Sounds like a GREAT time. I saw that the skies were going to be and were beautiful. This was a perfect...
Oh yeah. What did the comet look like in the EP? I really wanted to look at it. And did you see the fragments? Was there any coma or tail on the fragments? ...
Those of you not going to NEAF may be interested in the following: This coming Saturday, May 6, is Custer's Annual Family Astronomy Day. From 1PM until 7PM,...
Using my Planetarium program it looks like to me that on May 7th. at 10:18pm 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will be somewhere between 1-3 arc. min. from M57. That...
Hello All, Friday night I took some mono images from Custer. Comet73P, brightest piece by Hercules. Comet 73P-2 second piece by corona borealis. I thought I...
Attached, please find the latest issue of the Custer Comment, the monthly journal of Custer Institute. You are receiving the electronic edition in lieu of the...
Hi Kurt, I like those comet images. The globular cluster and the Ring Nebula came out good too. Are these taken with the DSI? What's the exposure time used for...
All I can say is WOW... What a night. Four highlights: 1)A beautiful double star in Coma Berenices Epsilon 1733. The brighter one was white/blue. The other one...
Hello All, As most of you know, tonite at about 11:00PM comet 73P will be close to M57. I will not be able to image it, either from here or remotely from New...
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will be next to M57 TONIGHT!!!. Europe and east coasters have the best chance of imaging it. It will be low in the east at...
Thank you Mike, They were with the DSI Pro, Mono with an IR filter. All were stacks of 30sec, and all ablout 20Min total exposure. Clear Skies, Kurt ... ...
For those of you that missed out on this wonderful occasion. Here are two links. The first is a link to a beautiful Jpeg of Comet 73P and M57. The second is a...
Hello Howie, Did you see it? I just read an email that it was so cloudy on LI that Vega wasn't visible. I guess if you can't see Vega you will not see Comet...
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No I did not see it, it was cloudy. And I was working. Wish I could have seen it. It looks wonderful in the images I posted. Howie ... that Vega wasn't...
Hello All! Over the weekend, I captured some images from New Mexico Skies. I think I will stick to this format in the future, where I have a page of small...
Hello All! I posted an image taken with my digital rebel. It is of a part of the Virgo Cluster. I got positive responses from the Stellarvue group so I thought...
SATURDAY, MAY 20 AT CUSTER, 6:00 - 7:30 PM. "AMATEUR RADIO ASTRONOMY" A complete overview of amateur radio astronomy, from its history to equipment basics,...
The Healthy, Safe, and Energy Efficient Outdoor Lighting Act Passes NY State Assembly Having been passed by Assembly in 2005, The Healthy, Safe, and Energy ...
Hello All, Last Night was an excellent night at Custer. I'm very surprised that others weren't there. I don't know where people go on clear moonless nights. ...
TUESDAY, MAY 23, 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Custer's Observatory Director, Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., will be a guest on "Overture," the radio show of Custer Member,...
Thanks for an excellent report, Steve. You really weren't kidding about you and Rico having fun Saturday! And thanks for paying your dues...I just found the...
The Healthy, Safe, and Energy Efficient Outdoor Lighting Act has been released by the Environmental Conservation Committee to the full Senate floor. As an...
Hello All! Last night we had observing at Custer, in-between the rain. Some of the students in Jeff's Astronomy lecture on solar phenomena, got a look at the...
Attached, please find the latest issue of the Custer Comment, the monthly journal of Custer Institute. You are receiving the electronic edition in lieu of the...
The 'Highlights' synopsis introducing this month's issue of the Custer Comment should have read: 1. Family Astronomy Day, 2006! 2. Letters to the Editor; 3....
If you missed the close encounter of 073C Schwassmann-Wachmann and M57. Here is chance for another close encounter. Albeit not as spetacular as M57. On this...
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