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Marshall's Night Sky This Week, 22-28 APRIL 2024

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Marshall's Night Sky This Week, 22-28 APRIL 2024

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How to make your own solar filter holder

Last post by OzEclipse « Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:26 am

by OzEclipse » Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:26 am

Making a Solar Filter holder for your Telescope

It's very easy to make a filter holder perfectly suited to total solar eclipse observation. A...

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More advanced eclipse photography

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If you want to have a go at capturing more complex solar eclipse imagery, this article covers aspects of capturing high dynamic range imagery and...

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Eclipse Photography for Beginners

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by OzEclipse » Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:06 am

Eclipse Photography for Beginners
By Joe Cali
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Warnings:
• Never look at the sun...

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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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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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Space Warfare

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Pentagon eases cloak of secrecy around space warfare training

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Clean, fun jokes... the tradition continues

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. — Hunter S. Thompson

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Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity’s role in nature. One thing we’ve learnt from astronomy is that the future lying...
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The Great Photography Thread - REVIVED!

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I wanted to try to start this old thread here.
This thread was a cool place to see photos (other than AP) by the forum members.

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It really is the Devil Comet ... ;)

I was attempting to see 12P Pons-Brooks the night before last just after sunset. Having worked out its position...
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Happy Birthday Carastro

Last post by Lady Fraktor « Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:04 am
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by TSS TEAM » Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:08 am

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Happy Birthday Carastro

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Happy Birthday Carole, I hope you had a great day with family and friends :)

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The Music Thread 2024

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We are 5 days into the new year and hopefully everyone is well.
Here is something written and sung by the late great George Harrison

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They are and they are not? :lol:

They are actors/ comedians but play instruments as well.
If you have not seen it before I highly recommend watching...
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Happy Birthday Bigzmey

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by TSS TEAM » Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:00 pm

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Happy Birthday Bigzmey

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Thanks Michael, Gabby and Dave!

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Solar Energy From Space

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by Graeme1858 » Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:15 pm

Japan is on track to beam solar power from space to Earth next year, two years after a similar feat was achieved by U.S. engineers. The development...

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Happy Birthday KathyNS

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by TSS TEAM » Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:24 am

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Happy Birthday KathyNS

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Happy Birthday!

Dave

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Observe Planets on a sunny day with a Telescope?

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by Flyhigh7 » Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:40 pm

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I have a 9.25 Celestron Telescope and I'm wondering if it is possible to see the planets on a clear bright sunny day if the planets are not close to...

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The moon looked great in all my EPs all the way up to 336x (7mm EP) but at 336x the wind was too much to study detail so I didn't bother to try out...

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Hello from Geneva, Switzerland

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by biswasg » Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:13 am

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I am a newbie, one year old into this hobby.
My wife gifted me a telescope, last year on my retirement from work, probably to keep me out of the...

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Welcome from Ohio

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Whale chat

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by AntennaGuy » Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:02 pm

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In World First, Scientists Share What Was Almost Certainly a Conversation with a Humpback Whale

If the reported conversation, is representative,...

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Very interesting.

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Hominid mandible in floor tile

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by Chich » Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:54 pm

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I've seen many fossils in building stone but never a hominid. Even has a banana for scale :)

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Reminds me of the banana taped with duct tape to a piece of posterboard, that modern art example went for 6 figures. This one could go for much higher

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What have you been up to lately?

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Went to work Wednesday afternoon (I work a 3pm-midnight shift normally.) and felt fine when I got there. By the end of my shift I was feeling a...

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Couple days of bike riding in Wisconsin. I was able to see the Milky Way there without binos or a scope. What a concept...
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Interesting objects

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Gabrielle, those are so cool! That motorcycle, wow!! How much cutlery did that take? That's some real craftmanship with a TIG for sure! I'd have to...

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Hey there from Ohio

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by farcrowd » Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:52 pm

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I was searching for some other info today and stumbled on this forum. I'm a member of two astronomy clubs, and have served as officers in both and...

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Hello and welcome to TSS. Glad you joined us. Your experience is a welcome addition.

Cheers,

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