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Is anyone active with observing our own star - the sun? The last month I was at Astrofest (Illinois) and was blown away by some of the views. In may cases it...
... get ... Well, if you were blown away by h-alpha views of the sun, the best way to get started is by winning the lottery <G> Coronado Solar Filters seem to...
I had my first chance to look through an H-alpha filter at Starfest this year, and I was absolutely blown away by the sight of a real, live prominence. As cool...
Greetings: Anybody able to help my friend by confirming that what he saw was part of a recent fireball event? Anybody know what day the APOD pictures are for? ...
This month the feature article is about Gyulbudaghian's Nebula. This variable nebula is brighter than it has been in many years. Deep Sky Observing ideas "In...
... Fred, Here's the BBC webpage recounting the event: http://tinyurl.com/phn0 No date listed for the event....pretty shoddy journalism if you ask me, but what...
Among the many deep-sky objects that my friend Tony Donnangelo and I observed on Monday night from a dark site near Mifflintown, PA, were NGC 7492, NGC 7723,...
... I've been spending a little time in this area myself. I was just a little south of you when I developed a renewed interest in NGC 253 near the galactic...
02 October 2003 For the second year in a row I volunteered to put on a "Star Party" for my son Max's class. Things were very different this year. The biggest...
... I used to own a TV 101 and I loved it for teaching and observing. The enormously wide field of view makes finding objects simple. My wife has little...
Greetings: Thanks for the pointers. From this, Pete was able to determine what he saw was **not** this fireball. He saw a thin, narrow cloud 22 hours later. So...
Hello I am happy to announce my sucsess at observing Pease one in M15 monday a week ago. a 22" F4.8 with a 16mm type 5 nagler was used to bad it. I printed out...
I know there is a place, probally more then one, online that has maps showing deep sky objects that can be observed in M31. Does anyone have a link? or can...
On the night of 10/3 I arrived late (around 1am) at the Flatiron observing site about 45 miles west of Phoenix, AZ to setup just as the waxing gibbous moon...
10/15/2003 8:30 - 9:00 UTC & 10/06/2003 0:30 - 3:30 UTC 2452918.5 Julian Wichita Falls, Texas 33.824, -98.544 994 ft. Seeing 4 of 6, Transparency 2 of 6...
... Hi John, You might also look at the following site: <http://www.ursa.fi/~koski/deepsky/010923m31.html> Althought not a website, "The Night Sky Observer's...
... Hi John, You already have the link to Paul Hodge's on-line Atlas but you might also like to get hold of a secondhand copy of Dave Eicher's book "Galaxies...
Alan, Thanks for noticing. I completed the objects north of -50 degrees in Burnham's around 1991, after about six years in Arizona of doing almost nothing but...
A wonderful and very well written story on light pollution and observing from some truly dark skies is in Tuesdays LA Times. From the Article: "Light by light,...
