Question: In the new April S&T, page 58, a picture shows the Saturn moon Tethys during a transit across Saturn. I didn't know it was possible to see a transit...
Way back in January 2002 I looked at Abell 31 in Cancer with my 25" from a dark sky location (6.2 magnitude). My notes indicated it was an easy object. I tried...
... Uh-oh, "visible in 10-inch from suburbs" often means "visible in Pronto from Anderson Mesa"! \Brian...
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Mar 3, 2008 8:42 pm
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... It didn't mean it was visible in 92mm from Steve Dodder's place recently. Joe Bergeron Fellow, International Association of Astronomical Artists ...
... hi Dan The moons of Saturn follow more or less the plane of the rings. So when the ring plane of Saturn is tilted with zero degrees towards the Sun (that...
I revisited Abell 31 again, this time at the same location as I mentioned I had seen it back in Jan 2002; from Coinjock NC (6.2 magnitude) with a 25". Oddly,...
hello tonight I could spot the new little comet C1 Chen-Gao at 96x. In the evening nicely placed in the rich field between Perseus and Cassiopeia, and my...
From something I read long ago -- one of the problems with observing Saturnian moon transits is the distance from the Sun - the moons are too small to subtend...
Last night the conditions from my backyard on southern Vancouver Island were very good for putting your query to the test. Trans was decent, seeing A 3 and SQM...
After a strong front and the upper trough that followed yesterday, the transparency was excellent, so I decided to try for the Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy, one of...
Alan; Here are two observations of the Ursa Minor Dwarf. As you said, it is very low surface brightness. When I say "Monk's Hood" it is a large dark cloth ...
Steve Coe wrote: When I say "Monk's Hood" it is a large dark cloth that I use to cover my head and shoulders for darker viewing. ********* Steve, An idea I...
I performed my first Messier marathon ever last night. Since I live at latitude 60 N in Sweden, not all of the M-objects can be seen from my horizon. I had...
... cover my head and shoulders for darker viewing. ... Attilla Danko, thanks Attilla) is to get an XXX large black T-shirt and just put your head through the...
yes, it seems that only Titan is giant enough to throw a reasonable shadow on the surface of Saturn, to be easily seen by our telescopes. That will happen a...
For those with larger apertures, I would like to suggest trying to identify individual stars in the Ursa Minor dwarf rather than merely seeing the weak fuzz....
Brian Skiff
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Mar 7, 2008 7:12 pm
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Well Done! Especially with the added challenge of using naked-eye and small aperture/binoculars. My charts only go as for north as 55 degrees, and 100 is the...
Hiroshi Kaneda has discovered a nova in southern Cygnus, as reported on CBET 1291. The position is within a few arcsec of: 19 58 33 +29 52.1 (J2000), and...
Brian Skiff
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Mar 8, 2008 6:05 pm
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This object will be coming within about 160,000 km of Earth in about 6-8 hours (about 1h UT for Mar 9). The current MPEC for it is at: ...
Brian Skiff
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Mar 8, 2008 8:05 pm
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... stars. ... Thanks to Brian and Steve Coe for their very interesting responses to my post. Please excuse my brevity -- things have gotten rather wild around...
I wondered if anybody in this group has worked with Unihedron's new Sky Quality Meter-L, which measures sky brightness over a narrower field of view. ...
... Hi Tom, Thanks for the link. It looks interesting, and it is certainly nice to have a meter that gives an immediate answer. But if you want to measure sky...
Howdy all; I was at a site far from the lights of Phoenix, Arizona this weekend and spent some time with Mel 71 in Puppis. I was struck by how nice this open ...
I saw one in my local telescope shop the other day. My friends who work there say it does a good job, but it was very depressing to learn just how bad Las...
This looks very interesting. It would probably have a lot of benefit over the regular one (which I have) for the area around where I live. Often people will be...
Weekend before last I decided to do a bit of star hopping along the galactic equator south of M-46. I came upon quite a variety of open clusters down that...
... Hi Jim, In reply to your quest for any additional observations of NGC 2452 I have the following made at Westmont College Observatory with their 16.5 inch...
