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Jul 1, 2010 10:26 am
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July Calendar by Dave Mitsky All times, unless otherwise noted, are UT (subtract four hours and, when appropriate, one calendar day for EDT) 7/1 The Moon is...
was wondering if anyone knows wether Comet McNaught will be visible in the night sky in mid July and if so the time and the Magnitude that it might be at then...
Hi Mike, Unfortunately comet C/2009 R1 (McNaught) has all but passed into conjunction with the Sun. It might be spotted in twilight tonight or tomorrow but...
Hi all: Observations - July 2/3,2010 - 0100-0230 UT WHEW!!! just finished. Well, I bagged the following NGC objects from my balcony here in Halifax,NS with my...
MOON PHASES Sun., July 4 Last Quarter Moon, 10:35 a.m. The Last or Third Quarter Moon rises around midnight and sets around 1 p.m. It is most easily seen just...
2010.07.05 solar observation http://flic.kr/p/8g1k1X there is a new sunspot region, AR1086, visible on the northwestern limb today The light bridge I discerned...
I imaged M16 with my f/3.3 astrograph and observed it with my 11-inch SCT. On my web page linked below I have an "eyepiece view" (digital sketch) of what M16...
I will be moving (not soon enough) to a site in a rural area with dark skies. This will be semi-retirement, but even though I will have many free nights and ...
This will be purely subjective and personal. Through a 10" Dob the most enigmatic and fascinating object for me is the Veil Nebula, which snakes like a ribbon...
... Now that I live under pretty dark skies, I find that I spend most of my observing time on variable stars, just as I did in my latter years in the city,...
Your 'observations' reflect some of mine as well! I, too, have a 10" Dobsonian and love finding tiny dim planetary nebulae with it. BUT... On Saturday night /...
Hello Geoff, I always enjoy your comments. I've only been observing for a year and only once recently from a dark sky. I'm curious about your remark that even...
... I grew up believing that the sky was something fixed and unchanging. As a teenager, I got hooked on observing Jupiter because it was so obviously _not_...
Every clear night finds me out under the starry canopy with some form of magnifying aid. Be it my 25 X 100 binos or one of my scopes, I am in owe of the many...
I don't know that I have a special favorite as like Geoff, I return to many of my old 'friends' time-after-time usually seeing something I hadn't seen or...
Mike, Chris, I can understand your comments about binoculars. On vacation to my intended spot in May of this year I saw much more in a pair of 10x50s than I...
... My 16" primary is currently off getting a recoat. So last night I got out my 20x80's for the first time in a long time using my parra mount. Observing from...
Geoff, You are the person I hold responsible more than anyone for the enjoyment I have had visually observing the night sky this past year. It seems that many...
After moving out here I'll tell you the first time I actually saw the Milky Way in very dark skies, I bought some very big binos and just run them back and...
Astronomy is beautiful thing! My top three dark sky observations are..... 1) My very first deep sky observation happened on a cold November (1996) new moon...
An impulse purchase I got in the mail yesterday included a Thousand Oaks 2+ glass filter in the nice Celestron hard case. I stuck it on the front of the C90 it...
Well. Bill, your stories point up the need to just get out there. As your first one shows, sometimes things just happen. Comet Holmes in 2007 got me thinking...
