Hey Patrick! It has been busy around the house lately. I haven't had a single night out observing since I got home. Too tired since having our youngest boy ...
HI, The new comet Swan is a naked eye comet visible a few degrees below M13 in Hercules tonight. If you can find clear skies this is a very nice greenish comet...
Hello, The president of the Grand Traverse astronomical Association contacted me about givng a lecture in the spring at a star meet in Kalkaska.He told me...
Those of you who were out early this morning were treated to a wild and frenzied display of Aurora Borealis at its best and brightest. They were extremely fast...
Over the next couple days comet McNaught can be seen near the sun if one is very careful to block out the sun so there is no chance of sunlight entering your...
Hi, Today just after noon until almost 4PM I observed the bright comet McNaught in 10X50 binoculars, 12X70 binoculars and in a 12" Dobsonian telescope. The...
Hi Venus is about 8 degrees to the upper left of Mercury tonight and both are seen easily with the naked eye low in the South West. With binoculars Uranus can...
On Friday, 2/16/07 at 7pm, John Dobson will be speaking to the Saginaw Astronomical Society at Delta College Planetarium and Learning Center in Bay City, MI. ...
Hi, John Dobson delivered a very humourous and anecdote filled speech about the Cosmos last night in Traverse City, I would recommend that anyone who has an...
Last weekend I saw Mercury low in the West and it will be approaching Venus over the next couple weeks. The next few weeks will be a good time to see Mercury,...
Hi, Over the next week Saturn and Venus appear to draw ever closer to each other until they almost seem to touch and can be seen in the same wide field...
Hi, Tonight Venus and Saturn will make a remarkable sight in a low power eyepiece of your telescope showing both the ringed planet and crescent Venus very...
Hi, If anyone is interested in having a star party at Elkwood August 11 and 12 to observe the Perseid meteor shower please reply to this post. Patrick...
Patrick, We are, we are! We have been wondering if you might try to have one this year. Are you having any monthly meetings this year? Aug. 11 and 12 is our...
Hi Mark, Have been trying to work around other star parties that the detroit area skygazers are going to. I guess there is a big star party in Canada many are...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
- 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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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