Added two modifications to my scope yesterday. I attached the stray light bill and plywood stars with Industrial Strength Velcro, has waterproof adhesive,...
Club, Don't forget, this Thursday Feb 5th is our next scheduled Skywatchers Astronomy Club meeting. See you 7:00pm at the Schiele Museum. Frank Barrett ...
Gaston County Dark Site I-85 to Hwy. 321 North Hwy. 321 North to Dallas-Cherryville Road Go toward Cherryville Go ~ 6 miles Turn left on Bess Town Road (vacant...
Because of my teaching obligations on Tue, Wed, and Thur nights, I miss coming to the astronomy meetings. However, a general audience lecture had been planned...
Went our last night to view the 6.5 mag Comet with the binos and couldn't find it? Did some research on surface brightness and found these interesting facts:...
Thought I'd see if there is any interest locally before I post them on Astromart.com: 1- Meade 1.25-inch Super Plossl 6.4mm multi-coated eyepiece with bolt...
The kiss of death for this weekend has arrived!! Sue got her 8" XT tonight. We assembled and collimated and hit the front yard. The view is fantastic!!! The...
The date of the next New Moon Star Party, March 20, also happens to be the best night of the year to have a Messier Marathon. Is anyone up for an all nighter?...
Hello All, Otto and Sue was at the dark site last night and per Sue the sky was wonderful. However, per Sue, the clouds followered me. I arrived around 0730...
I observed Saturday night and Sunday morning from my yard. Clouds weren't a problem. From 4:30 - 6:20am this morning I saw 26 Messier objects. However,...
I guess the museum is having a star party Feb. 28 and another on Mar. 6 but I don't know what the occasion is? Does anyone know whats going on? Otto...
I've placed an XL file in the files section that shows the search order for this year's marathon. The file lists the objects in RA order and gives the...
All y'all should have just gone to Terry's backyard Saturday night. His viewing was wonderful. No clouds in the sky there and he even gives you pie!...
Hello all, I talked with Tim this morning at the museum and he said there is a star party at the muesum this weekend 28FEB04 and next weekend 6MAR04. Both days...
There is a star party nearby between Greensboro and Highpoint: http://technet.gtcc.cc.nc.us/comserv/cline/tristar.htm on Sat March 6 and my talk for public...
Gang, The website is VERY hard for us to update because it's in such a state of flux right now. I'm not even certain who's running it for us any more. Be that...
Nothing like a snow day for busy work projects. The Lunar 100 observing list in the April S&T needed some additions. I added the terminator sunrise and sunset...
Have you checked out Virtual Moon Atlas at www.astrosurf.com/avl? It's a free download. Created by Patrick Chevalley, the creator of Cartes du Ciel. Pretty...
Terry, Check out the Moon book at this link: http://moonbook.hkas.org.hk/ Pete Peter M. Kubacko peterk46@... http://home.earthlink.net/~peterk46/ ......
Hello to all, There was 4 club members present at the star party Sat. at the museum parking lot. Jim and Tim was also present. There were 13 non members. So...
