This year I've entered a few of my pix in the sct-users Imaging Contest. There are many more entries this year than last, but I'm still cautiously optimistic....
I was out the other night with high intentions of taking some more high res pix of some lunar features and just couldn't get it together in enough time before...
Here's a shot of Pluto I took the other night. I hope to shoot this same star field later to convince myself that this really is Pluto, but at least that's...
FYI... I found this URL to be very useful in evaluating and comparing Seeing from night to night: http://uk.geocities.com/dpeach_78/pickering.htm Based on this...
I'm trying to get ready for the August Mars encounter, so here's my first attempt at imaging Mars with a webcam. This was an average of the best 300 frames...
New Course: Barnes & Noble universtiy has a new on-line astronomy course. Looks like an excilent starting place for aspiring amature astronomers. Ken...
At the star party last night I mentioned a really good pic of Mars I saw recently taken by a gentlemen in Singapore. His name is Tan Wei Leong an he's got...
I was unaware, when I joined this group, that there was no activity in this group. Perhaps the owner of this group would do a service to the Yahoo Group ...
As of today, the Catawba Valley Astronomy Club has ceased operation. At the CVAC meeting on Thursday, June 13 club founder Greg Kirby presented the club...
Been playing with the software again. This is a list of shadow transits for Jupiters Moons for the month of May as well as the info on the May 15 th Lunar...
Mars is coming, are you ready? I gleaned this information from SkyTools2. Its the Friday and Saturday nights this summer when Mars will be above 30 degrees and...
Somebody must have gotten a new scope cuz the forecast ain't lookin none too good :( It's a perfect time for processing images though. Here's my latest ...
We Observers 4/17/2003 On any given night We're out there Under the starry skies Always looking up........ We observers It`s a hazardous pursuit...... Ask...
Frank, Beautiful moon shots. How do you get such a perfect match in the mosaic edges (exposure, positioning)? I live down by the Kings Mountain State Park in...
Hello, I've kind of gotten lunar fever (some would say I'm a lunatic) and have been spending more time observing and photographing the moon. I wanted to share...
Why Do You Observe? A fair question, and one I didn't have a good answer for. I decided to do a little soul searching to see what kind of response I could come...
Frank, It appears you have out done yourself on your new web site. It a it very obvious that you are pretty good when it come to web sites and getting better...
Club, I didn't want February to get away without *somebody* posting *something* so here's a shameless post to get y'all to look at my website :0) I spent...
Hi all. Just wanted to pass along the info for the Bobfest event this weeknd. Hope everyone can make it! Visit the Cleveland County Astronomical Society...
Hello all, Since we got iced out of our regular meeting I thought I would give you all an update on my latest astrophotographical endeavors. At MASP I picked...
Hello! Here's a pic of Saturn I took at the Mid-Atlantic Star Party with the ST-5C camera and a Barlow lens on the C8. It's not the best pic of Saturn I've...
Sue once shared with me that the Orion Nebula was her favorite. Mine too. This one's for you Sue...Enjoy! http://bellsouthpwp.net/f/r/frankb02/M42.html Frank...
Did anyone see the ISS and shuttle pass over tonight? Very bright (brighter than Vega) and almost straight overhead, ISS followed by the shuttle about a...
Yeah, M57 was the first deep sky object I found with my C8...love it for sentimental reasons if nothing else. 25X30 seconds means I combined 25 exposures of 30...
I hope y'all don't get tired of me posting my lastest photo's...not trying to brag or anything...just trying to share the beauty of the night sky. :-) Here's...
