Awesome Stephen! I enjoyed scrolling around zoomed in and looking for all the faint galaxies you captured. The Helix itself shows alot of detail. Dr. Myron Wasiuta President- MSRO Science, Inc Directo

Dear members of NOVAC and BAS, Our October meeting will feature Ashley Stroupe, one of the few people in the world who has driven a NASA rover on Mars! The meeting should start about 6:45pm on Wednesd

Wow!! That is an amazing image Robert - i second the motion that we want to see the color version when you can post it. Dr. Myron Wasiuta President- MSRO Science, Inc Director- Mark Slade Remote Obser

Sterling, Enclosed is your image taken on August 4 which I annotated to show the location of RS Oph. What I thought might be a weak detection of the star at minimum is actual not so. There is a 9th ma

Robert, the star begins fading almost immediately. IIRC, in past events this star fades about 3 magnitudes in the first two weeks. Myron Dr. Myron Wasiuta President- MSRO Science, Inc Director- Mark S

Sterling, Its just out of the top edge of the frame on the second image. 😞 Myron Dr. Myron Wasiuta President- MSRO Science, Inc Director- Mark Slade Remote Observatory Wilderness, VA USA

Hi Sterling, I looked carefully at you image and i do believe it just barely detects RS Oph while still near minimum. The nova event occurred on August 8 but your image confirms it was at or very near

Hello, Battling blood-sucking swarms of mosquitoes and sauna-like humidity, I managed to get an image of RS Oph in outburst last night as well as a spectra. For this image I combined 10 60-sec exposur

Dear MSRO and Friends, A work in progress, but I wanted to share our results so far. This graphic shows our spectra of Nova Cassiopeia on 14 mornings from March 21 to May 1, 2021. Alex Filothodoros wh

Greetings , I was able to get some DSLR images using my Canon Rebel T3 and Tamron 16-300 mm telephoto this morning at about 430am. I tried observing it visually with my Edmund 5- inch f14.3 refractor

Good Afternoon, If anyone would like to read about the history and vision of the Mark Slade Remote Observatory I would invite you to see the attached article recently published in Sky’s Up magazine. I

Dear MSRO ,RAC and friends, Last night Max and I obtained 3 hours of spectroscopy on the faint supernova in NGC 3310. We captured a very faint spectra which possibly shows an emission feature. Analysi

Hi Mark, What makes this a “Classical Nova” is not a feature in its spectrum but in the fact this star has never before been seen to outburst. It is undoubtedly a cataclysmic variable where a white dw

Hi Bob, If that spectrograph is something the BAS wont need or use, we could definitely put it in service. It would allow for higher resolution data than we can get now. In fact we have a telescope th

Hi, A nova has been discovered in Cassiopeia near M52. This morning it was about mag 7.7. Here is a link for more information, and some spectra we obtained this morning at MSRO. https://britastro.org/

Looking forward to seeing your images with both these scopes! Dr. Myron Wasiuta President- MSRO Science, Inc Director- Mark Slade Remote Observatory Wilderness, VA USA

Prompted by Bob’s amazing Ha image of the Horsehead Region and looking forward to galaxy and glob season, i would like to share two images taken recently using our 10” RC telescope. Dr. Myron Wasiuta

Absolutely Spectacular! What a way to leave “ nebula season” and now bring on the galaxies ( and globulars!) Myron Dr. Myron Wasiuta President- MSRO Science, Inc Director- Mark Slade Remote Observator

Bob, My skies are not great in terms of darkness but as yet have not taken the leap to narrow band. It is truly amazing though what detail can be seen! How do you like your RASA? I am seeing more imag

Wow very nice images Bob! That Soul Nebula is kinda haunting. Looks like a skeletonized turtle with a baby head looking to posse me! Cant wait to see the narrow band results! Dr. Myron Wasiuta Preside