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Brilliant Venus, approaching inferior conjunction, is now visible in C3 SOHO fov.  See above for a video (over the next 10 days) of the planets conjunction with the sun.  See also https://spaceweather.com/ for photos and details of the conjunction.

definitely cool. thanks for sharing Bob!

Wow! Did anyone get a photo of comet Leonard and M3 ? (See https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=180044).  Hopefully we’ll have a nice binocular and small telescope view over the next month or two.

Having a recent Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of a planet you have photographed really helps one recognize subtle structures visible in one’s blurry pics.  In the attached image the Hubble image is part of yearly maps of each planet taken as part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy program, or OPAL.  Check out Hubble’s recent photo…[Read more]

Jim is fine. I saw some of the meeting last night and it was inspiring to see what you and everyone have been observing!
I definitely need to get out more but will probably have to wait until next spring 🙁 clear skies!

Whoops!  The Frontenac SP event noted above was on Nov 6th and not the 7th!

Thanks darkskyjim (should I just say Jim!? ) .  Our web page highlights the Nov 7th Frontenac State Park event and the images of that are awesome.  Sadly, I had to stay in Rochester where the sky and seeing was excellent but not like the skies over Frontenac.  Wow!

Later (about 2am), I did wake, got to my observatory and as the skies were st…[Read more]

another good one Bob!

Thanks Darkskyjim! Below is a Jupiter photo from 10-30-2021 taken with a 10 in. SCT and the 6.3 M pixel color camera. Staking of 150 frames with Registax6.

really nice dumbell photo Bob!

Observing and doing some astrophotography 10/8 from my observatory. Skies were dark and clear but humidity high. Tried my hand for first time photographing nebulae. M 27 (Dumbell) was a good starting point for me and it is well placed in the sky these nights. Used my right angle finder scope (50mm dia.) with removable eyepiece and put in the…[Read more]

A modern video demonstrating the archaic observation of what a planet is … “a celestial body distinguished from the fixed stars by having an apparent motion of its own”.  In this case the planet Mars (to the left of the  sun moves left against the background stars which all move to the right.

Thanks Josef!  (So nice to see you on the bike trail  yesterday!)

Nice Saturn, Bob!

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Not sure why. the images I posted recently look so poor on the website. I’ll post a tiff file version and see what happens.