The PDF (Adobe Acrobat)file named "astro_101" in stargeezer's document file is truely OUTSTANDING. Thank you Jeff for posting it. I don't know when you put...
Hey, thank you! I wrote this a while back to hand out at Fun-Ed's "Astronomy" course. Unfortunately, Fun-Ed was shut down about August of last year. The...
I just uploaded a picture of C/2002X5 into StarwatcherTX album. I know it is not a great picture. Maybe not even good. But it is what I saw. Comet is in...
You're welcome, Wes. Good night here, too. I'll be at the TAS Public Observing Night (First Friday) at Richland College in Dallas tonight, and at the Spring...
Greetings all and hope everyone had a happy holidays. Santa came through this year and left a Orion StarMax 127mm "Mak" under the tree. Of course I grabbed...
Unless you were setting up for photography, I probably wouldn't bother with the polar scope for alignment. I just don't think it's necessary for visual use....
Les's reply to the question is certainly good. I really like his own web page. I would add only the following. If at all possible go to a local astronomy...
I agree with Les on this one. I first started out spending a lot of time trying to polar align and wanting to learn how to use the setting circles. Since...
Hi Bill, Run (don't walk) to http://www.cpac.freeserve.co.uk and download Brendan Murphy's planets java program. I can't even begin to explain how useful this...
Thanks! Last night I went back out and took a look at Jupiter. I was equally thrilled to see some banding across the planet and four moons. Although the...
Hi, I'm new to the group as well as novice star gazer. Over the last few weeks, I have enjoyed finding and identifying night sky objects. The binoculars I am...
Hello Doghive. Welcome to the fascinating hobby of observational astronomy and welcome to this club. Yes, a pair of 7 X 35 binoculars should show the rings...
Howdy Doug, Welcome to the group. It would take some pretty heft binoculars to see Saturn's rings and you'd need a suitable mount for them, too. You might ...
... Doug: Any chance you could get to a star party near where you live and check out several pair on the night sky first? If you're near Dallas, the TAS has...
Thanks to everyone who commented and had helpful advice about the binocs. I live in Austin and am planning to go to the Wild Basin star party next month....
Here's some infor for the latest hopeful in the way of observable comets (naked eye). I have more info at my site. Orbital elements: C/2002 V1 (NEAT) Epoch...
Don't know where to start. The president is making his speech at this moment, the folks at mission control are gathered...sigh. Please, do what I have done,...
Hey, Jared: I just saw this on another forum and thought it would be a neat link for your site ... and I'm not where I can see your email, so pardon ... No...
Jeff, Thanks a bunch for that info! I've incorporated some new things into my site (now keeping track of several comets, with ephemerides straight from MPEC,...
No problem. I've got to get back to your site more often. It's growing! Lots of the astronomy.com forum posters go there now. I promise I'll do the lunar...
Gerald Johnson, once a member of the Amarillo Astronomy club, passed away Monday morning. Amateur astronomy was one of his central activities for the last...
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Been awhile since I've posted, but I just wanted to announce that I've added some more images to my amateur astro gallery. Stop by and check them out. There's...
Two more images added to the gallery. Very nice planetary shots. If you would like to submit something to my gallery, please check the Submission Guidelines ...
For those of you who are interested in Scouting, I've posted a File in the StarGeezer folder that will help in guiding Scouts through their merit badge for...
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