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Did anyone on the list attend the Connecticut River Valley Astronomers Conjunction on Aug. 26-28? I was hoping to attend for my first time, but family...
C/2005 P3 (SWAN) There is a new comet in UMa at about magnitude 10.0 There are observations made with 8-inch dobs, so many of you should be able to see it in...
... Nice images. For those who are interested in observing comets, I'd like to remind you that up to date visibility information and finder charts for all of...
Greetings: I know that Stephen O'Meara is credited with finding the "spokes" in Saturn's rings in 1977, but didn't somebody visually observe them decades...
On Tuesday 30th of August 2005 I got the 8-inch TAL 200K out around 20.30 hrs UT. The sky wasn't as clear as on the two previous nights, but for observing some...
... Welcome to Starrynights! I also started out as a science fiction reader, until I discovered the real thing! Take a look for Jupiter and Venus, currently...
Hi People....Ive seen this before but didn't bother to check it out. However last night I saw it again. It is a group of stars in kind of a vertical...
Hi Mark, ... Judging solely from the fact that it seemded to be about 2/3 the way from Cassiopeia to Mars, it seems to be a part of the constellation of Aries...
Hi Fred: Glad you found the article useful. Other observers that appeared to have observed spokes in Saturn's rings include Etienne Trouvelot (he worked at the...
... Hi Wouter....Yeah I know it's vague but it's the only way I can explain it....There are far more than 4 stars. My chart although not detailed enough leads...
Hi Mark, ... Could it be you're referring to the Pleiades? It's an open cluster of stars located not far from where Mars is now. It contains several hundreds...
... of ... stars ... Yes Wouter that looks like it could be it...probably is. My scope shows many more than that picture though. The whole thing is realy a ...
Hi Fred and Eric Many years ago my friend Per Darnell, a famous Danish planetary observer volunteered together with two of his astro-friends to move a old...
Date- 9-1-05 Location- Lafayette,CA Equipment- XT8, 0-111, 17mm Lanthanum, 9mm MA Meade Class Skies-5 I was outside watching the Venus/Jupiter conjuction when...
Hi all, I made it just back from a motorcycle trip through Andalusia, Spain. When we were sitting outside at night and I instinctively look up to the stars....
... Hi Eddy: Off topic, I don't think so. You now, if you didn't before, have had a visual experience that is permanently burned into your mind's eye. About...
... That's the object which best fits the description, but it's more like 1/3 of the way from Cassiopeia to Mars, rather than 2/3. The Pleidaes seem to be...
... Moving Group, ... and brightest ... bright stars ... the naked ... binoculars. ... direction." ... because it's ... Hi Geoff...Yes Melotte 20 could be it...
Hi, I had a great experience last night. Last night I had pretty low expectations. It was windy and the aurora borealis were pretty but making for some light...
Next time you look at M-13, look for the nearby galaxy NGC- 6207....which is more than 2,000 times farther away than M-13. It lies less than half a degree to...
Those are good challenge objects for smaller telescopes, and I spotted both globulars in my 6-inch. In my ten-incn NGC-7006 looks more like an amorphous comet...
Hi, my name is Christine and I'm new to this group. I've just recently started stargazing as a hobby but I've always, always been interested in space and the...
... Hi Christine, and welcome to Starrynights! We're an interesting mix of people here, some beginners, some old hands, and lots in the middle. I don't think...
Thanks Taras, I'll defintely take a look for NGC-6207 next time I'm out. As well as looking for a few more globulars. I didn't know if globulars would be that...
