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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...
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...
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...
Bill, Thanks for the nice words. There's no short answer to your question. I've picked up some pointers from other astrophotographer's on the net and refined...
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...
I like this, especially the part about an endless universe. It amazes me that the further we peer into space the more we find. Could the universe in fact be...
Frank, Now that you are know as an " ARTIST " by the publishing world I guess I will now have to refer to you as Otto does, Mr. Barrett. I know you are proud....
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 ...
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...
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...
I got a requist to get this message deleted or updated to state that the CVAA is now, and has been a viable club. There was this very short period in June of...
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 ...
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'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...
Otto, You were close on the time, it was around 4:30AM, but it was more like Tuesday morning! This streak of clear weather is killing me and I have to work...
Thanks Bill, The webcam is a Philips ToUcam Pro to which I've remove the lens and temporarily duct taped a 35mm film canister with the bottom cut out (I've...
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...
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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...
