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bwyman replied to the topic 2026 Meeting Minutes in the forum Meetings 4 days, 11 hours ago

Meeting minutes and presentation notes from March 24th, 2026 meeting at RCTC.

bwyman replied to the topic 2025 Meeting Minutes in the forum Meetings 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Minutes from August 12th, 2025.

Yes, these are ending up attached out of order. :-/

bwyman started the topic 2026 Meeting Minutes in the forum Meetings 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Starting a new topic to post meeting minutes for 2026.

January / Holiday meeting minutes 2026-01-16: (attached PDF).

fealeybob14 replied to the topic 2025 Observing in the forum General Discussion 1 month, 2 weeks ago

On 2/24/2026 Jupiter was observed and photographed. Stellarium indicated the Red Spot would be visible. I just had to get out to a picture (shown below). A 10 in. SCT was used and a composite image was made.

bwyman replied to the topic 2025 Meeting Minutes in the forum Meetings 4 months, 1 week ago

Minutes from August 12th, 2025 meeting at RCTC.

fealeybob14 replied to the topic 2025 Observing in the forum General Discussion 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Observing tonight with the 10 inch Meade SCT. Saturn and its moons was the target. While the eyepiece appearance can nicely reveal the planet and moons together, imaging often means exposing the planet and moons separately and combining them when processing the final image as below.

The moons (I think) left to right, are Rhea, Tethys,…[Read more]

Josef Chlachula replied to the topic 2025 Observing in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 3 weeks ago

In the good old times almost everyone was publishing on forum observing tonight? That topic had so many pages that it made sense to stop it and create topics 2024 observing or 2025 observing

Of course, everyone can start their own topic, and it is OK. The problem is that nobody knows about it, unless one would go on a regular basis to the forum…[Read more]

Macastronomer started the topic OCTOBER Star Party Misfire in the forum Star Parties 5 months, 3 weeks ago

I’m sorry that my messages didn’t reach people yesterday. Many in the club showed up last night and they did get a few hours in before the clouds set in, so maybe that was for the best. Tonight is looking more clear but the winds are 12 to 16mph which is pretty high for a star party. Due to wind, and the fact that most everybody did go last night,…[Read more]

Macastronomer started the topic News from Dean Johnson Memorial field in the forum Star Parties 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Hello Skywatchers,

Tonight’s skies look like a cosmic game of hide-and-seek. As the stars find a place behind the clouds we’re left counting on tomorrow. In short, tonight’s observation is a no-go.

Tomorrow is precariously promising, meaning there is greater chance of stars but they’ll be twinkling in the wind. If you don’t mind some wind we ma…[Read more]

fealeybob14 replied to the topic Comet Lemmon 2025 in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 3 weeks ago

A smaller version with better dark frame subtraction:

fealeybob14 replied to the topic Comet Lemmon 2025 in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon is very photogenic. I used my 6 in Quattro reflector last night for the image below as the comet was near the star SAO 83647 in Boötes.

fealeybob14 replied to the topic Comet Lemmon 2025 in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Truly beautiful pics Mike. Took another one last night at Keller. Not as elegant as Mike’s but was fun to find and capture.

Mike Benson replied to the topic Comet Lemmon 2025 in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Got these pics a couple nights ago.

fealeybob14 replied to the topic Orionids in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks Dwayne. I was out from 11 pm to midnight trying to photograph with my cell phone attached to my refractor. Orion was coming up over the trees in East and just then I saw a meteor streak by. Didn’t stay as I was going in at the time.

Macastronomer started the topic Orionids in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Orionids peak tonight and the sky is supposed to clear between midnight and 3am.

I don’t know if I’ll be up and able to find a decent sky at that time or not, but I thought I’d mention it just in case anybody else is thinking about it.

Macastronomer replied to the topic Comet Lemmon 2025 in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Nice! Thanks for sharing. Tell Jeff to share too. 🙂

fealeybob14 replied to the topic Comet Lemmon 2025 in the forum General Discussion 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Jeff and I were at Keller WMA last night to observe Comet Lemmon. Jeff obtained beautiful images with his telephoto lens camera. (Hope he posts some here!)

I had my refractor/camera setup (as in my previous post) and located the comet near the star SAO 63911 in CVn. Image below is a stack of 12 frames each 5 seconds long.

fealeybob14 started the topic Comet Lemmon 2025 in the forum General Discussion 6 months ago

Comet Lemmon was imaged tonight 10-17-2025 around 8 pm, while at Keller WMA. This site has very good W and NW clear horizons and fairly dark skies. I used my Astrotec 80ED refractor and ZWO ASI 183MC camera. 22 frames 5 sec each were stacked. The comet was near the star SAO 63514 which has a magnitude of 6.1.

Macastronomer started the topic Jonathan Tomshine TMB in the forum General Discussion 6 months ago

Should I print up something for Jonathan Tomshine (vinyl decal) for the scope that was donated to the club?

If so:
What should it say?
What color? (keep in mind the scope is white and red will not be visible on a white scope with red lights)
How big? (It needs to fit somewhere on the scope that won’t be covered by rings)
What font?

Thanks!

Duane