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Last post Grand Canyon / Kaibab 2025
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Links to popular, Astronomy Related websites.

Last post by Gordon « Wed May 03, 2023 7:51 pm

by Gordon » Wed May 03, 2023 7:51 pm

Feel free to add links, however, one of the team will approve the post just to make sure the link works and doesn't steer us to one of THOSE...

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All New Telescope Owners, Please Read!

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by JayTee » Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:57 pm

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All New Telescope Owners, Please Read!
by JayTee

Hello to all the new and lucky telescope owners, Please use your telescope for the very first...

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Excellent advise about setting up in the daylight and running thru everything !
If you don’t your first couple of nights will be a turn off , I did...

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POPULAR AND FUN OFF TOPIC THREADS

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by Bigzmey » Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:58 pm

Clean, fun jokes... the tradition continues

The Great Photography Thread - REVIVED!

What have you been up to lately?

Quote of the day,...

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Welcome to the Articles and Reviews forum! (PLEASE READ)

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by Gordon » Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:24 pm

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TSS now has an area for members to post Articles and Reviews.

NOTE: DO NOT POST REVIEW or ARTICLES in this forum section!

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We have had a few instances of new topics being created in the Articles and Reviews forum without prior approval by the TSS team. Those topics have...

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Requesting Or Giving Tips And Tricks

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As a helpful reminder, we have several different board styles which are selectable in the Board Preferences tab in your user control panel. Some of...

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Beginner's Forum Must Reads!

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by Gordon » Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:34 pm

The links below contain threads that are considered 'stickies'.
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NEW MEMBERS: Welcome to TSS.com!

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We are the 'new kids on the block' and hope you will find your astronomy home here! We think you will find an extremely knowledgeable and friendly...

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Weather

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Spring-like weather finally arrived the day before Spring officially began, and we hit 90° today, though it will cool down to the 60s by Friday,...
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Clean, fun jokes... the tradition continues

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Re: quotes of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe—that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
… The divinities of heathen superstition...

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Astronomy is older than physics. In fact, it got physics started by showing the beautiful simplicity of the motion of the stars and planets, the...
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What are you currently reading?

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Just completed: Death Is Our Business, Russian Mercenaries And The New Era Of Private Warfare by John Lechner, 2025, 261 pages.

Overwhelmingly,...

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What music are you listening to - 2025

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She still rocks! We have tickets to see her in Praha, July 26!

UPDATE: The Benatska Festival tickets to see Suzi Quatro have been returned as it...

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Thanks for merging the 24 & 25 threads whomever did that! One thing does lead to another...
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Opening specials at Milky Way Lounge: build your binocular chair

Last post by dpselinger « Mon Mar 24, 2025 8:35 pm
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by dpselinger » Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:47 pm

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Milky Way Lounge has just opened its online storefront, and has two kinds of promotions available at . Here you can also see videos of a binocular...

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Here's a freeze-frame from the latest vlog post entitled A quick 360° x 90° binocular chair tour with a 20-60x fieldscope . Near the new moon at the...

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The Great Photography Thread - REVIVED!

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Was going through some old pics yesterday, and I found this from March 23, 2012. I'm somewhere on the shores of lake Ontario, though for the life of...
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Happy Birthday ram!!!

Last post by Unitron48 « Mon Mar 24, 2025 6:30 pm
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by helicon » Sun Mar 23, 2025 4:37 pm

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Happy 53rd Birthday ram !!!

And many more trips around 'Ol Sol!

From your friends on the TSS Forums!

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Happy Birthday and best wishes for a great day!

Dave

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Mon Mar 24, 2025 6:30 pm
Open University Certificate in astronomy

Last post by Agnes « Mon Mar 24, 2025 12:33 pm
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by Agnes » Mon Sep 04, 2023 7:43 am
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I decided to try the Open University ondergraduate study Astronomy. It is possible to do it for only a ceryificate with two modules,...

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Hi,
Yes, indeed I passed, better than I expected (both topic with second grade :-) )

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Pet Nicknames

Last post by messier 111 « Mon Mar 24, 2025 12:20 pm
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by Ylem » Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:32 pm

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My friends and I were laughing about pet nicknames last night 😆

So Roxie (cat) is Princess Vicious.
Fawn (dog) is Drools Verne.

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My dogs.
Luna, the beaver, she eats wood.
Charlie, ying yang, her face and body are half white and half black.

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Sorry for the "Down Time"......

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by Gordon » Wed Mar 19, 2025 10:03 pm
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I want to personally apologize for the forum being down since 3/14/2025....

There's no-one to blame except me....

I was watching our total data...

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My display of the problem images matches exactly with Henk's description.

Just thought you should know,
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Sun Mar 23, 2025 10:09 pm
Slideshow of TSS APODs?

Last post by Bigzmey « Sat Mar 22, 2025 10:46 pm
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by SparWeb » Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:57 am

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In another thread, Gordon mentioned purging old photos from TSS.
While I get the point - the site consumes a huge database - it sounds regrettable if...

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Sounds great if it is doable.

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Sat Mar 22, 2025 10:46 pm
Happy Birthday GCoyote!!!

Last post by GCoyote « Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:06 pm
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by helicon » Fri Feb 28, 2025 2:24 pm

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Happy Birthday GCoyote !!!

And many more trips around 'Ol Sol!

From your friends on the TSS Forums!

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A belated thank you to one and all for the timely birthday wishes.
Between travel and crappy weather, I have not had a scope out yet this year.
I...

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Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:06 pm
Grand Canyon / Kaibab 2025

Last post by SkyHiker « Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:09 pm

by SkyHiker » Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:09 pm

June 21st – 28th, 2025. The Kaibab Lodge is a half hour North of the Grand Canyon and has very good skies (Bortle 0 according to someone who measured...

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Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:09 pm
StarFighters

Last post by Unitron48 « Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:45 am
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by StarHugger » Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:39 am

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In 1952 LM was testing the first mach 2 fighter in a long line of tests that broke open the boundries of fighter aircraft technologies understanding...

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Bring on the X-Wing fighter!!

Dave

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Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:45 am
nPAE Northern Hemisphere Astrophotography Public Vote

Last post by nPAE « Fri Mar 21, 2025 5:17 pm

by nPAE » Fri Mar 21, 2025 5:17 pm

The public vote for the nPAE Northern Hemisphere 2025 Competition has now landed!

For those new to The Sky Searchers, astrophotography or nPAE...

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