... I always find that I enjoy my 4 inch refractor as much as my 11 inch Newtonian (the largest scope I've ever owned). There's just something "personal" about...
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... Mak at about 150x, I saw a dim (about mag. 9) blinking light move slowly west-to-east and pass about 10' south of Uranus. It blinked regularly at a rate...
My Light Cup and I have always fancied starting the tour of the NGC catalog with NGC 1. For the past two years and disappointment after disappointment trying...
Enjoyed your sketch--thanks for posting it. It was nice to see what someone else was seeing at the same time I was observing. I live in San Diego right on the...
Hi Ron, Good job with your 8"! Wish i'd thought to try this one Saturday from Joshua Tree. I've since printed a finder chart from SkyTools and put it on my...
Time: September 1,2003 0307 UT - 0717 UT Sun sets at 0207 UT Astro Twilight ends 0344 UT. 25% moon sets at 0429 UT. location: 113w 41n conditions: calm, cool,...
Thanks! I too found that a thin cloud layer tends to cut down the glare and make some features more defined. That night we had some of the best seeing in quite...
Here are two observations -- one with my 17.5-inch and the other with my 16x80 finder. An H-beta filter helped with both scopes, although the name of the game...
... The California Nebula (NGC 1499) is not extremely difficult given very dark skies, a H-beta filter, and a rich-field telescope. I've seen it with my 101mm...
I had attempted to bag the minuscule Martian satellites named Fear and Panic, better known as Phobos and Deimos, several times before and during the BFSP last...
Seeing Deimos and Phobos for the first time was a priority for me at this opposition of Mars, but I had not gotten around to doing the necessary preparations...
Although the weather was not as good as last year and there was no spectacular auroral display, the 2003 BFSP was nevertheless a very good one and has garnered...
What resources are you using in order to calculate the position of the martin moons? *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Robert R. Jones II AOPA 04167547 AMA...
I use the table on page 106 of the August Sky&Tel. I think that this list of all elongations is probably somewhere on Sky&Tel's website, too. Good luck. Alan...
If I were doing it again, I would try old-fashioned rough flat black hockey-stick tape for the occulting bar. Don't think that I ever admitted to anybody about...
Sorry about the OT, but I just got a newsletter saying that the VLA has imaged Halley's Comet. Here's the article: http://tinyurl.com/lxm0 Btw, did anyone see...
Thanks for the detailed report, Steve... looks like you and Dave both agree on using an H-Beta filter. Maybe if I start dropping hints to my 'better half' now,...
... It was a very nice naked-eye comet, although best viewed from the southern hemisphere. I vividly recall standing on a rock in the Laguna Mountains,...
Sorry about the loss of the ep Alan, but thank heaven it wasn't accidentally your eye. Through my giggles I remembered the time I'd [unknowingly] lost the...
... I saw it once...on the night I located it, it was only about 4th magnitude, so not very exciting. I've seen several much better comets before and since:...
... were ... Greg, Seeing that it's Mars, maybe "C'est la guerre" would be more appropriate ;-) Rick (Who really enjoys listening to Holst's "The Planets" ...
... Yeah, although I'm not sure what war has to do with comet Halley... Anyhow, I knew I spelled C'est wrong but I had a mental block and it just wasn't worth...
... no ... I've seen it as yellow this year too. IIRC, it seemed more red to me in previous years, especially in comparison to Antares. Someone at an...
