Hi, Rick, one of our members asked me to post this - I know someone who has an Apogee Inc. 90mm x 500mmFL refractor on a hand-driven equatorial mount. It comes...
I am north of the Arctic circle now at about 68 degrees North Latitude living in an Eskimo village. Saw an Arctic ice-bow yesterday opposite the sun like a...
Last night just after 9 PM I viewed a very bright (magnitude -5 with surges to -7) bolide approaching from the southwestern horizon and culminating about 40...
POSSIBLE PERSEID METEOR OUTBURST: This year's Perseid meteor shower could be even better than usual. According to NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, a...
Mercury will be easily visible in the west the next few weeks during twilight. I have observed it the last 2 nights climbing higher in the west each night and...
Tonight after sunset compare crescent venus with the crescent moon in binoculars or a small telescope and see how similiar their shapes are. Also this weekend...
Comet Lulin is now a naked eye morning object near Libra headed toward Virgo. The comet makes its closest approach to Earth (0.41 AU) on Feb. 24, 2009. Current...
The appearance of Venus through a telescope becomes more crescent shaped during January as the planet's orbit brings it closer to Earth. As the planet's phase...
Hi , Over the next few weeks Jupiter and Venus will slowly draw together in the twilight SW skies. They will both be very close to the crescent moon on...
Venus moon mercury and mars are all within a few degrees of each other tonight making a spectacular sight low in the SW. At 8:30 PM Venus was first to show its...
If anyone is interested in a star party in july let me know. I have emailed the Sirius Stargazers to see if they will be holding any star parties in our area. ...
This week mercury will be very bright above the western horizon in late twilight. I observed it easily last night in binoculars and naked eye and with a 12"...
On Wednesday night, Feb. 20, for the third time in the past year, the moon will become completely immersed in the Earth's shadow, resulting in a total lunar...
Hi, Comet Holmes can still be seen near Algol in Perseus with the naked eye and Comet Tuttle is moving south out of Aries and is also visible naked eye on a...
A wide field of comet 17P and galaxies NGC 1160 and NGC 1161 (left of yellow arrows) taken last night has just been posted in our photos section in the Comets...
At sunset on Sunday, Dec. 23rd, the full Moon and Mars will rise in the east less than two degrees apart. So close together, the two brightest objects in the...
Hello, Comet Holmes continues to be a naked eye object near Algol in the constellation Perseus and keeps expanding linearly as it has since its outburst in...
Comet Holmes continues to be bright and is getting larger each night and is now larger than the sun making it the largest object in the solar system. It is a...
I thought a few of you would enjoy this video news piece about a star gazer's community in Georgia. I apologize if I didn't capture the link correctly. ...
Hello, Just posted another image in the photos section in the Comet Album of the strange comet Homes that is bright in the NE sky in constellation Perseus...
Hello, Comet 17P/ Holmes remains bright and the apparant size of the coma is getting bigger each night. No one agrees what has happened to the comet to cause...
- Hi, The comet 17P/Holmes in Perseus is even brighter tonight with a much larger coma than last night. I have been observing it since shortly after sundown in...
Hi, The bright comet 17P/Holmes in Perseus has brightened several maginitudes over night and the last observed magnitude for this comet was ml 2.8 which would...
The Gladwin star party was a GAS. Several dozens of scopes were set up and hundreds of astronomers covered several acres of the hill top campground. Doctor...
Google Earth now has Google Sky which is a nice Planetarium program showing many celestial objects such a galaxies and planets ect... with nice links for many...
We had a nice turn out for the Perseid meteor shower at Raven Hill Science and Discovery Center with dozens of people lined up to look through the telescope....
Hi! I'm Michael Foerster. I'm new to this group, but not new to astronomy in Northern Michigan. I'm a co-founder (with Bob Moler and John Russel) of the...
Last weekend I gave a talk at Raven Hill and used two of their telescopes to show guests Venus in crescent phase the moon and jupiter and the Belt of Venus. We...
The following astrosite list has been put out by JIn Ehlers and the Elkwood Campground is on the list, also is regarded as an astronomy friendly site. A B C D...
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