Taking advantage of the brief break in the cloudy weather, I ran up to Lake Sonoma after work on Thursday night (February 3) and arrived about 6:00 to find Bob...
The Fiddletown forecast is not promising, and the ranger I spoke to said there's still a foot of snow at IHOP. Plettstone does not look good either....
Can anyone tell me if the Rosetta nebula can be seen with a 6" scope (refractor) in the Sacramento area or is this really a dark sky object? Also, is this one...
I have a friend at work who has a child who is a student in a local junion high school. The school owns a 1997 era Meade 8" SCT (Model 2080 LX3, I think) with...
Hello everyone, I am confessing to this terrible weather that has just plagued us all. Hopefully, clear weather is just around the corner. I treated myself...
Shneor and ZZ were having fun in Fornax. That cluster was where I lived 3 years ago this time. http://www.observers.org/reports/2002.01.04.3.html for vivid...
I had just about given up hope that it would be clear on Saturday night, January 29th, but the prediction by Friday afternoon was for mostly clear, so I was...
A few of us did some viewing Saturday night, Jan 29th, since it was the first real night of clear skies we have had in weeks viewing in my back yard in Elk...
I arrived about 5:15. Randy Muller and Jake Burkart were already there. I picked out a spot shielded from the lights of the house on the hill, and proceeded to...
The current CSC and Wunderground forecasts (Wunderground for humidity) indicate reasonable viewing - maybe restricted to a max of 100x or so - for at least 3...
I had a chance to peek at both Comet Machholz and the Double cluster in Perseus, NGC884/NGC869 side by side tonight. In 10x42 binoculars, it was tough to make...
Hello All, Well, it's been awhile since I've talked to and viewed with a few here ( Klamath Falls, "03") so I thought I would pop in and say hello and maybe...
Hi Everyone, Please pardon this OT question about RTMC. Has anyone ever taken the back way into RTMC? This is via Hwy. 18 that goes through Lucerne Valley,...
With all the fog in Sac Valley driving some of us nuts to get out for a photon fix, does any one know if IHOP is usable as a viewing site this time of the year...
The forecast for Fiddletown for the night of January 29 looks pretty miserable right now - snow is considered possible. February 6 might be OK, though. This...
... Accuweather has been 3-4 hours early on their forecasts every night this week. Conditions they predicted for Davis at 6pm on Wednesday didn't show up until...
CSC looks VERY good for tonight. I may not arrive till 8 or so - but the moon will still be prominent, please forgive my headlights. Carpe Noctem, Shneor -- ...
After missing it last night because I had mistakenly thought it had set, I looked at comet Machholz (C/2004 Q2) tonight with 10x50 binoculars from my backyard...
Clear at last! Clear at last! Thank God Almighty, it's clear at last! After a deluge of water early this morning, and for the past few weeks, it finally...
Saturday, I cancelled my trip to Plettstone due to a sudden bout with allergies and sinuses that had an annoying pain. Even so, I actually got out at home and...
Fiddletown Friday? I'm thinking about Fiddletown this Friday. Moonset is about 10:25 - I could perhaps nap till then. The current forecast looks OK. Clear...
Just viewed this object from my back yard thru thin clouds about 3-4 degees NNW of the Pleiades, close to the zenith, with a pair of 10x50s. Beautifull, large...
The rain gods have been most unkind for the last several days so I didn't have much hope of catching Comet Machholz tonight at it's closest approach to the...
Apparently, dear FJ has been working with very outdated information. Had no idea the type 6 Naglers were priced like that. When I was an astro stripling, 6...
The Shingletown Star Party 2005 web-page is now up: http://www.shingletownstarparty.org Dates are July 6 - 11, 2005. Registration will open on 3/1/05. More...
You know, I've heard Dave North go on about quality control once upon a time with Radians. My two are handy. I compared with several other EP's including...
