Dragged the kids and wife up at 4am to check the meteor shower. We counted 16 in about 30 minutes from our backyard in Rocklin. Observing from 4:20 to 4:50am. ...
... moon ... Im also here in Rocklin, Was up at 3:15 with the 35mm AE-1 started taking long exposures starting about 3:25, Caught a short beauty about 3:31...
This is another invitation to observe at a dark site in Nevada. I plan to be at my 40 acres in Crescent Valley, Nevada on Friday September 7 very late (12PM...
Are these one and the same? Or is one a part of the other? Depending upon where I click on the object The Sky tells me it's 71 and then 84. Thanks, mars...
The Sky doesn't show any stars. This large spiral galaxy has nothing unusual about it. Maybe they are superimposed on one another. And what about NGC 3473?...
Thanks, Richard. It's probably on Steve G.'s corrected Herschel list he talked about at GSSP. I have forgotten how to get to that...Steve? mars ... all-new AOL...
You can find the corrections here. _http://www.ngcic.org/_ (http://www.ngcic.org/) Richard ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the...
According to "NGC2000" (Roger Sinnott, Sky publishing), 3371 is a single star at 10h 47.0m +13 48, described as extremely faint while 3384 is a very bright...
... You can also go here http://ngcic.org/pubdb.htm and enter ngc 3384 (or any other NGC or IC object you notice a conflict with in uncorrected software) and...
The short answer is that NGC 3371 is likely a duplicate observation of NGC 3384 and another "missing" object in the same area, NGC 3373, is a duplicate of NGC...
... For the NGC and IC catalogs, the NGC/IC project (http://ngcic.org/) publishes corrections. These corrections are incorporated into plantetarium software,...
Me too. Shneor ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** Shneor Sherman ******** Davis Community Network *********...
I wanted to make the run out to Kens but my fuel tank is still hurting from OSP. I am probably going to go drag my trailer up to IHOP and park for a couple of...
Who is going where and when? The TAC Observing Intent (OI) calendar allows observers to see at a glance where and when people are going to observe, without...
In Sacramento "Seeing in the Dark" is on PBS Channel 6 and 6.1 on Wednesday 9/19 at 10PM. At least that is what the online TV Guide reads. Marc ... local...
... Good luck. I am curious about the smoke situation in the Sierras. The last satellite photo I looked at showed lots of smoke in the valley, mainly from the...
Randy, The smoke is mostly in the valley and west. If you look closely at the visible sat image it is very clear there. I'm sure that Ken will be fin way out...
... I wouldn't be the house on that. The NOAA image yesterday actually textually marked the extent of the smoke, and it was way out east as well as throughout...
Mark, Thanks for this image. I didn't realize that it did that. It seemed obvious that the smoke was heading to the SW from Moonlight. smokey skies, Alvin ...