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...
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...
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....
The Gastonia Clear Sky Clock DID NOT predict the lousy weather we had last night. Barre, Sue and I were at the dark site and watched the storm front move in...
The results were posted last night. I entered 5 images and 3 actually placed! Cygnus - 3rd place for "Piggyback" http://celestialwonders.com/cygnus-MASP.html ...
