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.

I’m starting to think this is just a group of guys that are a click to do favors for just one another that have been here for awhile.

Hello, Here is the Zoom meeting link for our meeting this month. Sterling will be sharing information about his recent road trip to Texas to do some stargazing! Topic: Birmingham Astronomical Society

Are the parties still on with Covid still happening. I’m new and would love to go to one.

So, I decided to join and the first question my wife asked was “Why?”. I said for the knowledge. She said, “ the internet is full of knowledge, why pay” So, it’s kind of hard to tell her why, but I kn

Have a crazy idea. 😃

It’s looking fairly good. Need to see if the transparency improves, but I think it will be good enough. Anyone else? It’ll be a good night to see the comet! I bet we’d see it well with the C-14. Join