Hi PJ, I used a Beta version of what is now known as the Planetary Contrast filter. Its basically a 3 peak RGB filter and the Beta version was never put into...
Hi, This morning presented the best seeing conditions I've had in a long time. Nearly perfect. Saturn was very sharp at 406x in the 6" refractor. The only...
... identified using a small telescope. It should be visible in a 60mm under dark skies. In the Messier Album Mallas describes M74 as a difficult object for...
Hello Ron, ... Well, isn't our Sun a variable star? Maybe not in the spectrum of visible light, but I vaguely recall reading somewhere about the sun being a...
Thanks to everyone for their advice and comments. Just my luck; I pick a random Messier object to look for and it turns out to be one of hardest ones!...
I've hit all the M objects with a 4.5 st reflector with a city 20 miles away. Usually mag 4 stars visible. Curious, my understanding was that he used a 3"...
I found the following event of a magnitude 9.8 star that will be occulted by asteroid 1191 Alfaterna (mag. 15.5). The event occurs on the evening of Nov 3rd to...
... IOTA usually posts an update on the path about a day before the event, based on corrections to the orbit from the most recent observations...often the path...
Jeff, Might it be not too far off subject. Some folks would be hard spent to find astronomy stuff with out the setting circle (Wheel) Fork mount Gage.......LOL...
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I just uploaded an image of Saturn taken this AM with my 10" TMB/APM apo. Philips Toucam pro, 3X Barlow registax (approx. 1000 images stacked), photoshop....
Hi all, Today I added a few new items to my website. In the book-section. I added a new book review, Jess K. Gilmour's "The Practical Astronomer's Deep-Sky...
... Geoff, Thanks for the information about the IOTA updates. This event is on my to do list and I understand how a negative sighting of the occulation can...
I was surprised tonight when observing the moon at 60x & 80x to see a soft glow on the floor of Ptolemaeus formed by multiple shafts of sunlight. At first...
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I can't say I was excited to get up when the alarm hit at 3:00AM but I did get up. Seeing not as good as last night but I did get an image of Saturn. 10" F/9...
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... For this report I failed to mentioned that the numbers of rays seen in the crater was 4 just in case a calculation of future events of this type will be...
Jim, How could you NOT be excited to roll out of bed at three in the morning to gaze upon that most magnificent planet Saturn? And on top of that get to...
I just noticed that the events listed for 16 Nov 2003 and 18 Sep 2003 and all the rest of the events for Ptolemaeus are when the Moon is 22+ days old. The...
Unfortunately due to a large amount of spam email I might have to have to leave this and other groups, it should be possible to disable the members email...
... My experience is that little or no spam comes from participation in Yahoo groups, provided you have your account set correctly to prevent Yahoo from ...
... Yes, i agree. I get very little spam on the email address i use for Yahoo groups and i've used this address for many years. The address i use for usenet...
A few things you may or may not know. yahoo made a change in their email several months ago which resulted in members being subscribed to a long list of spam....
