Used to come to some of the star parties and would love to get involved with the club again. Thanks, Larry J Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device Get Outlook for Android

Hello, everyone! Just a reminder -- our monthly meeting for January is scheduled for Tuesday (01/18/2022). The Zoom link information is below. We'll "see" you then! Clear skies! -- James James Moore i

Happy New Year fellow star-gazers! I just noticed that someone posted the 2022 club observing/star party dates in the forum, thank you! Is there anyway these could be posted on the website soon, too?

Greetings! If you forgot to order your copy of the RASC Observer's Handbook for 2022 (like I did) and still need a copy, you can still put your hands on one through Astronomy League at a substantial d

https://youtu.be/Id0YaVb61tw?t=49 This caught my eye. It animates the expansion (from photographs) over 20 years. It was worth watching. About 3 minutes long. Thanks, Tony -- Tony Edwards https://www.

Happy new year, everyone! Does anyone have any experience with this site? six hour drive and seems promising. https://www.floridastateparks.org/learn/stargazing-st-george-island

Hello, everyone! Scott was kind enough to generate the star party dates for 2022 for us this week. Believe it or not, the first CMO date is JANUARY 1, 2022! I don't know if the weather will hold out,

It was supposed to be today, but there’s bad weather at the launch site in French Guyana. So it will be a fine Christmas present for Astronomers. https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/launch.html

Hi, Here is our "first-light" 2-frame mosaic image using the brand new MSRO Station 4 (an ES 80mm f/6 APO and QHY 174 CMOS camera on a iEXOS 100 PMC-Eight mount). Calibration flat field frames were ma

And we didn’t even wait for nightfall! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/15/nasa-touches-sun-spacecraft-parker/

Howdy folks: Here is a color image of M42 I got last night/this morning (27 subs at 5 min each) with my 12.5/5.6 scope and ASI6200MC in my backyard (close to bright moon too, but at least it was clear

Hi, my name is Amy Sealy McGowin and am a new member. My partner Brian Clancy along with my two children Sealy 15 and Buddy 17 McGowin are happy to meet you ! We are interested in learning more about

What a great display of Geminids this year-despite the moonlight. I hope others were able to enjoy part or all of the display and look forward to reading about your observations! Here is one of the ma

Hello, does anyone know the email for the club's paypal account? Not to sound like a true millennial, but I always forget to have cash or checks with me when I come to the club meetings. Thanks! -Aaro

Hello, Here are a couple images from this morning I took using a 102mm f/7 APO and QHY 178C camera. The telescope was autoguided on stars, and then the comet images manually stacked in Maxim DL. The i

Howdy folks: I just posted 7 recent astrophotos on my flickr page that I have been working on for the past couple of weeks: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobpittphotos/ I sent some of these out to you

Well the weather apps are a bit unclear. They’re may be some clouds, but one says mostly clear. The clear sky clock though is pessimistic. But it might all change by tomorrow. If so, I’d like to go up

Can anyone rank these nearby dark sites or suggest another? Something within maybe 6 hours drive? Stephen C Foster State Park Chilahatchie Creek French Camp Blackwater state forest (Florida)? Just pla

Thanks Kevin-coming from you that's quite a compliment! Here is a cleaned up version of the image taken with the ES 102 mm refractor. It was tweaked by Scott Busby who is one of the more knowledgeable

Good Morning, Here is a quick processed stack of 30 60-sec exposures taken with the 10" f 7.9 TPO RC and QHY 174 GPS camera on Station 2. The comet was moving so fast that at this image scale the moti