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There is one patch of clouds at about midnight that will take about an hour to pass according to predictive weather.

Saturday looks better for seeing and clouds, but with mom’s day I wouldn’t be able to do Saturday.

Will somebody be there to turn off the parking lot lights tonight?

I see there is an Eagle Bluff outing listed in the calendar for Friday.  Is that a go?  Has Eagle Bluff been contacted?

Is the above yours Mike C?

What a gorgeous sequence macastronome!

April 8th 2024 from Southern Illinois. 29 images, each was 4-6 images stacked. All but the total used a neutral density filter. Taken with a Canon R50.

Thanks Jim. As I did in 2017, I compared my Starblast images with orbiting observatory photos (the Solar Dynamic Observatory or SDO in particular) to have a comparison for sunspots and solar flares present on April 8. Blink comparative images are shown below.

I would certainly enjoy seeing observations of other members too!

cool image Bob and glad ya’ll weren’t clouded out! we were totally socked in w clouds here.
jim

Yes, he did. Unless the whole school decides to attend, we will have plenty for everyone!

Hi Ken, has anyone contacted you?  If you get a hold of Randy, he did have a bunch of glasses that he would gladly donate to you.

I did get those at Eagle Bluff, Bob. I’m glad you got to see Starship.

Nice! Too bad you will miss the launch. 🙁

Nice M81 and M82 and Pleiades Rob! Did you get those while at Eagle Bluff?

I thought our members might be interested in a picture I took today in Boca Chica State Park in Texas. Yup it’s SpaceX’s Starship at it’s launch site, hopefully awaiting launch this week. Unfortunately I’ll be on the road returning to MN and not able to stay for the…[Read more]