Terry, You might also check out: http://www.seds.org/~spider/ngc/ngc.html Type in the ngc number (e.g. 7331). There's lots of interesting info on the objects....
Check out today's APOD for an animation of the eclipse: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031107.html Also for those who didn't get my handout at the meeting...
Thanks, Frank, but I'm missing something. I plugged in 7619 and 7632. Clicked everything that I could click on, and didn't find a distance. What am I...
Terry, I don't think you're missing anything. It looks like the "More on..." link is not available for all NGCs. There is one for 891 and 7331 which were the...
Here's a little more info. The weather's not looking all that promising. Total Eclipse of the Moon, 08 Nov 03 (times are EST) Site Information (Clover, SC) ...
Looking through the "2004 Observers Handbook" I ran across a table of the 40 optically brightest Shapley-Ames galaxies and its complete with distances :0) I'll...
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NO ONE from the Gaston Skywatchers Club attended the Lunar Eclipse at the Schiele. Just 2 scopes for people to see through... one guy from Gardner Webb and...
The recent Aurora has me in the mood to see RED. I searched SkyTools and put together a list of stars with a B-V index of 5.000 or more, very red. The file is...
Hope you viewed it from home. My 12x25 binoculars were perfect for it. Wish I'd had a louge chair... would have been preferable to the rock I was lying on....
After getting clouded out of the eclipse (again) I was still in the mood for a bit of taste for the moon. Naturally the skies were crystal clear Sunday night...
Frank, Thanks for the link, great photo. I stayed up until 12:00 hoping it would clear, then went to bed. I need a new hobby, something you can do on cloudy...
Frank, The picture is unbelievable but so is his hardware!!! a.. Astro-Physics 9" f15 APO a.. Astro-Physics AP1200QMD mount Thanks, Pete Peter M. Kubacko ...
... That's when I work on image processing or otherwise convince the family that I really do live there...<grin>... Frank [Non-text portions of this message...
From a link on the Catawba Valley Astronomy Club web site, I found gastoncountyskywatchers. I will move from East TN to Charlotte, NC on Nov 30 and should be...
Nice to hear from you, John. The Gaston County Skywatchers meets the first Thursday of every month at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia. Terry Lorch Charlotte ...
John, We welcome you to our little corner of the universe. The clubs you have mentioned are all good clubs, we interact with them often and they are all good...
Rod Mollise was nice enough to include one of my Mars images in his most recent issue of Skywatch. http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index8.html Wow, my name in...
Gastonia, NC Lat. 35 12 17 N Long. 81 12 52 W 7:00p to 7:55p 11/20/03 Sun spot 484 Ghostly green aurora, high in the northern sky below Cassiopeia would dance,...
