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Marshall's Night Sky This Week, 15-21 APRIL 2024

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Marshall's Night Sky This Week, 15-21 APRIL 2024

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Eye Safety While Watching Solar Eclipses

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by OzEclipse » Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:36 am

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Eye Safety While Watching Solar Eclipses
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A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the...

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Thanks Joe !

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How to make your own solar filter holder

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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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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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Clean, fun jokes... the tradition continues

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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!

There are a few...

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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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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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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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Half Moon? Surely she means Quarter Moon?
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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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Interesting objects

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by Lady Fraktor » Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:00 am

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When I saw some of these I immediately thought of you :lol:

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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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Hello. I have a Celestron 130 SLT

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by maclark88@gmail.com » Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:06 am

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Hello. I have a Celestron 130 SLT

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Hello,

Welcome to TSS. Glad you joined us.

Cheers,

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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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I just saw some type of fireball in the sky, white with green color, thought it was a crashing plane over Lakehurst Military Airfield, NJ (Where the...
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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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Yes, I have an 11 Celestron and have observed the brighter planets and moon during the day. You do have to be careful not to catch the sun. I keep my...

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Happy Birthday John Baars

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by TSS TEAM » Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:28 am

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Happy Birthday John Baars

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Happy Birthday John 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 🎂

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Nuclear Fusion Reactor Record

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Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds

Graeme

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StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ alternatives

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by whooooper » Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:49 pm

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Hi All,
I live in Reading, UK and looking forward to buy for me and my 7 years old son our first telescope.
We are not going to do photography.

I...

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Thanks a lot for the quick replies and the suggestions!
Unfortunately my garden table is also wobbly as it's portable/collapsible table. I also plan...

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Weather

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Today it looks like this. (Actually looked like this even yesterday.)
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Finally stopped raining! Several days, now partly cloudy and comfortable :)
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Happy Birthday JSBach1801

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Happy Birthday JSBach1801

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Happy Birthday JS! 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈

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Earthquake, 4.8 here in NJ

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by Ylem » Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:10 pm

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The whole house shook, we have a military base nearby, I thought there was an explosion there.

No visible damage.

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The whole house shook, we have a military base nearby, I thought there was an explosion there.

No visible damage.

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In California, a 4.8 barely...

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Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:49 pm
Flying motorcycle

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by AntennaGuy » Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:01 pm

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Motorcycles have all the traffic advantages...again.

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Eclipse Forums

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by JayTee » Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:56 pm

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Hi,

I do not see in the Astronomy Reposts / Eclipse forum a New Topic button to start a discussion or Reply in a post already submitted. There is...

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You should now.

It was a permissions thing.

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