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Last night after the wife's company's Christmas party we decided, instead of sitting and feeling miserable after way to much food, we bundled up and...
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Moon and clouds is a beautiful combo. On Thursday when I got home from work, I looked up and saw the moon halo. That was neat!
The other night I was looking at Jupiter. Despite it being high in the sky the seeing was terrible as often the case in the desert. I could not push...
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I've noticed a nice boost in contrast on my lunar images using the Solar Continuum filter. That was discovered by happy accident. I had been solar...
Hi, I’m not sure where this goes, move it if necessary.
I have a Stellarmate pro and for the life of me cannot see where to connect the tx-60 cable....
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Hi, I’m not sure where this goes, move it if necessary.
I have a Stellarmate pro and for the life of me cannot see where to connect the tx-60 cable....
I have another short window tomorrow morning. Only 3-4 clear nights out of the next seven so I need to be prepared. The scope is set up, balanced and...
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OBSERVATION TIME WINDOW: 20240922.785UT - 20240922.797UT
Sky: Bortle 5-6 due to large moon
Comet nucleus was just visible to the naked eye approx...
A powerful X4.54 CME was ejected from the sun’s limb just as the originating sunspot was rounding the sun’s limb. Much of the energy will miss Earth...
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The magnetometer readings spiked to high negative values (requisite for southern aurorae) .....
That's interesting! But it makes sense when you...
So we all have our favorite types of scopes and yeah we love our favorite types of scopes. So the question is, what has lead us to this place. I will...
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As far as I can remember I was always fascinated with astronomy. I have started my observing carrier naked eye, when I was about 7 years old,...
I was looking back through my notes of the year to-date and realized that this year i have already beaten my normal average of nights out observing....
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For that and many other reasons the first item on our shopping list for the next property was no HOA.
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