Sorry about the delay on this subject but was receiving group messages on an old email that was being forwarded to my new email. Had to re-register with the group to send out messages again. I have a

Sorry about my previous post and sending the image in an unreadable format for most-I meant to enclose the image as a jpeg. This image represents my best effort to date on this object-about 3 hours of

Hello, everyone! Just a reminder -- our first monthly meeting for 2021 is scheduled for Tuesday (01/19/2021). The Zoom link information is below. We'll "see" you then! Clear skies! -- James James Moor

Would like to introduce a new member to the club, “Cecil Macoy.” Cecil it’s a pleasure having you join our club and look forward to meeting you in person soon. The group email is main@bas-astro.groups

Went right over the top of Birmingham. Could see it all the way from the western horizon just above the trees to way east. Very impressive. Could see structure to an extent.

Details are as follows: Date Images Acquired: November 18, 2020 All sub-frames at 240 seconds, 15 Lum, 10 R, 10 G, 10 B Scope : 6" Astro-Physics EDFS, normally at f/5, but focal reduced to f/3.75, whi

Bas-Astro members, News quickie, we have new members and I would like to introduce them to you. Thomas Wade wade.thomas@... and Jeff Allegrezza jrallegrezza@... They have just joined, so if you see a

Mike put together a substantial set of shelves and we are loading them up. I picked up Russell's donations this afternoon and you can see by the pictures that our imaging members have lots of new toys

I would like to take this time to say Happy New Year to all our members. For those of you that my not be sure on how to get your membership dues to us. Here isa couple of ways: PayPal Here's how to ma

Ok. This interesting astronomy news: “Hundreds of candidates, however, routinely pass this phase and are singled out for further investigation. From there, almost all will be dismissed as some mirage

The club 20" Obsession, Dr Bob's generous donation to BAS: mirrors moderately clean; reasonably collimated with Kendrick's laser; wheel barrow tires pumped up. No power yet but scope moves freely on b

Danny I have reached out to our group for help. Also check us out on Facebook. Folks can you help Danny out here. I don’t live in Birmingham and not sure where a good place would be to see the conjunc

Hello, everyone! We received this message on our FB page. If you can help Mike out, please feel free to email him at leddems79@... Thanks! Hello, my son and I recently bought a telescope. We have alwa

Bob (or anyone), What are some suggestions? Don

Hello, everyone! Just a reminder -- our monthly meeting is scheduled for Tuesday (12/15/2020). The Zoom link information is below. Normally we'd be sharing a meal somewhere, but with the current circu

Cleaning the club 20" mirror. Mostly Wallace with guidance from Fred and Dr Bob and Scott. The clear blobs are water. Helps with focusing camera. Before: Now. Getting there...:

Howdy folks: I am cleaning out a bunch of astro and camera stuff and realized that the following items may be of interest to club members (at excellent prices!) Canon 60dA (barely used). This is the f

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rare-meteor-triggers-sonic-boom-brilliant-flash-over-lake-ontario-n1249795 Visible in broad daylight across several states and heard around the northeast. Wonder i

This is my first attempt at a nebula pic. I chose M42 because, hey I'm a noob, it's bright, and forgiving, etc... lol. Anyhow, just learning. Details of shot are provided in my FB post link below. Any