Welcome to our new members! Feel free to post messages, replies, or photos. Some members post their astro-images, or pictures of their scopes and equipment. We...
Hello group, don't forget tonights Nov.7th meeting with Professor Rick Gaitskell. We have to stick to our "armchair," astronomy during this crumby weather. ...
Hello all Make sure you watch Channel 2 (WGBH/Boston) at 10PM.. as Channel 36 (Rhode Island's PBS station) has no listings until early 2009!! :((( Roger ...
Hello Group, tonight Wednesday 19th of November is our Observatory committee meeting, and all should attend. The meeting will start at 7:00pm and we will...
Below is a message addressed to NASA's Solar Sytem Ambassador (SSA) education and public outreach program. LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing...
Yikes!!! What a disaster that would be. Let's hope it doesn't get by the planning stages again. In my mind it doesn't make much sense to locate a high end...
Hopefully our economic downturn will put a stop to this plan! We need another theme park like a hole in the head. Maybe they should open a "dark sky," theme...
2008hj, CBET 1579 discovered 2008/11/20.14 by Tim Puckett, Eric Briggs, and Jack Newton Found in MCG -02-1-14 at R.A. = 00h04m01s.91, Decl. = -11°10'07".5 ...
Venus, Jupiter and the moon were very close together in the southwestern sky on Dec. 1 (yesterday evening). Just before heavy clouds rolled in, I was able to...
"On September 19th, CERN announced that the Large Hadron Collider had suffered a major incident, known as a "quench". An electrical short between two of the...
Mike Brown writes very interesting blogs on his personal and professional astronomy life. Here is one where he announces his return to a more normal life at...
Hello everyone Pete Peterson imaged ERIS on November 19. The albedo is very low so although larger than pluto is far fainter (18.7mag) Happy holidays Roger ...
Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) The brightest comet of the month can be seen low in the southeast right before dawn. Starting the month near the "head" of Scorpius, ...
Actually, ERIS has a higher albedo than Pluto. The albedo of ERIS is listed as high as 86%, while Pluto is around 60% (depending on the spectral band). The...
Dear Bob: Thank you for the heads up..I stand corrected. There will be times however, ( though not in our lifetime) where ERIS's perigee will be closer than...
Hello fellow Skyscrapers, Thanks again to everyone that attended last nights event at the Alton Jones Campus. This was our second event for the Woman's...
** Our Next Event ** Friday, Feb. 27th Portsmouth Middle School expecting well over 100+ students For this event we will be organizing it into programs that...
Several posts have been made with no identification of who you are other than the email name - some are very cryptic and offer no clue as to who you are. Could...
Tracey, I just uploaded two animated gif files of C/2007 N3 Lulin and of C/2006 OF2 Broughton. I think you need to view the larger version to see the...
Hi Bob, nice images, I have not got out of my warm house yet to do any imaging. I guess I'm lazy as a bear this winter. My I'll get out this weekend if the...
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