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...
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...
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...
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"...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
