Greetings Fellow Astronomers! The Astronomy Connection (TAC) organizations of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Sacramento Area, and Southern California are...
Happy New Year to all my fellow TAC-SACers! With the cold and rainy season here, I'm already feeling ancient photon-deprived. So this announcement is great...
I spent New Year's Eve in Esparto, where there's a 12.5" homebrew stashed in a workshop. The owner of the telescope also attended, and about 10 we rolled it...
Short but sweet. I like it. Feelin' a little photon deprived myself. I've only had my new 80mm out in the backyard once since I got it over a month ago. Just...
... Hear, Hear!!! I too hope to get to IHOP more time this coming year. My new ultralight should make it easier to grab-and-go. A prosperous and healthy New...
Happy New Year one and all... Welcome to a new year full of great observing opportunities, as TAC rolls on into another year. Our observing reports archive is...
Sunday night was an exercise in drippy irony. Toward sunset the Peak was stunning from the Salinas Valley, and showed up all magnificent on the drive up county...
As the forecast for all sites to the north and east of Albany were predicting lousy transparency, I decided to join Jaime and start the new year off with a...
After a wet skunking on Sunday night, including fugitive binocular fun, it was time two nights later to head back to the Peak. Steve Gottlieb had beaten me...
I hope all you TACOs and TAC-SACOs made it through today's storm okay. My 10" Dob base sitting under the patio roof got pretty wet from the wind-blown rain....
... Darrell, Sounds like you may get to do some ATMing, depending on the condition of the base. The big tree next to our house in San Jose has been making some...
Love your subject line, Darrell, and hope your dob dries out ok. If you're looking for someone to blame for the wild weather...... Some of my new 12" dob got...
Matt, Now that you mention it, it's not just Randy. Every time _I_ see you, you have a new scope ;-). You shouldn't have told us about your 12" Lightbridge....
Just spending time on another rainy afternoon going through some old astro mags and came across Steve Gottlieb's "Restoring order to the deep sky" article in...
The NGC/IC corrected database is incorporated into a number of amateur sky plotting software including StarryNight, TheSky 6, Guide, SkyMap Pro, Xephem, Cartes...
Saw stars while out getting the paper at 6:15, exotic morning stars. For two weeks it was broad daylight before I thought of looking outside, being on school...
... I'm glad for you that it was clear in your neck of the woods. Before the recent series of storms and generally bad observing weather, I was enjoying...
Renato, Isn't it the Plymouth Hardware Store? Darrell _____________________________________________________________ Want a great salary and great benefits?...
(From TAC's mailing list - one posting of many) Mark Brada and Pete Santangeli have it right. Please, if you are interested in amateur astronomy, there is a...
Of course, as soon as I replied and pointed to the web-page, TAC went down. :-( Check this in a while. It is worth reading, and acting on. Yes, astro-parks....
... The governor is proposing various kinds of budget cuts to align spending with projected income. Some of the proposed cuts include cutting service to...
Four of us went to Fiddletown tonight. The good news is our neighbor smoothed the road into the property. The bad news is there are apparently new neighbors,...
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