It was a beautiful night for observing last night at CMO albeit windy and ultimately cold. We looked at Mars in the C14. It was amazing. Lots of detail. I took a photograph of M57. Just a 30 second sh

I'd like for us to organize a work day for CMO for Saturday, October 10th. I checked the football schedule and both Alabama and Auburn have late afternoon/early evening kickoff times. :-) I know that

Guys, I’m an old past member who follows you via email. I wanted to pass this along and you can contact this sweet lady yourself and let her know? If you could copy me in this I would appreciate it. A

A friend of mine, Tony Edwards, is in the process of trying to join the BAS. He said he paid for his membership through Paypal. Will he get a confirmation? He sent me a picture showing a problem with

Should be a great weekend for both cleaning up and observing. We should have some great skies and the moon is perfect. Hope to see a lot of folks there!

Hi Everyone, A few weeks ago David Dunham sent out an alert describing a rare occultation of a 13.5 magnitude star by the faint Uranian moon Umbriel. We were able to successfully detect an approximate

Mars is looking very nice I took this picture last night from my home in Vestavia Great time for planets m Martin Rodriguez

The next Item I will be selling is a HA modified Canon XS (1000D). This is the body only but comes with the box and all paperwork, charger and two batteries, as well as an after-market dummy battery/A

Is anyone going to CMO this Saturday night? I have never been up there but was planning on going. Are there directions posted somewhere? Thank you, Kurt Edwards

This should make Martin jealous.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/knocking-our-door-wildfire-closing-historic-california-observatory-n1240177 Whew! It was close.

This day the VLA dishes were spread out with four dishes rolled north of Highway 60 where I took this snap across from the parking area on our way back to our house after a visit to Pie Town.

Group, I am going to be selling some telescopes/equipment, and I'd really like to offer things here first before putting on Cloudy Nights or Astromart if it's alright. If someone buys something, I cou

Hello, everyone! Just a reminder -- our monthly meeting is scheduled for Tuesday (9/15). The Zoom link information is below. We have a speaker lined up for the evening. Hopefully Dr. Olive from Samfor

I have been working with a new guide ZWO ASO290MC and got a few images of Jupiter. These have not been post processed; I simply ran them through Autostakkert and Registax. Some work might bring out fi

Dear BAS, Not sure if you’re seeing this yet but our skies are very hazy from the smoke blown East from the wildfires in California. Both Skycam images were obtained with identical settings under a “

Hello, everyone! This is to let you know that Dr. Don Olive has been named physics chair at Samford University. He will also be serving as the planetarium director. More importantly, he has also agree

I took this a couple of weeks ago with my Hyperion 12.5/8 using a Triad quad narrow band filter, and just did the flats today. 40 one-minute exposures stacked with a ZWO6200 bin2. Unfortunately, prett

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/satellite-megaconstellations-could-have-extreme-impact-astronomy-report-finds-n1238178 Looks like more satellites are going to be launched by both Jeff Bezos and

David Isbell found the clubs older 8 inch Meade. The electronics apparently are shot, but maybe reparable. The optics are great. Let us know if anyone is interested.