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Very nice GIF image comparing images M101 with supernova about 250 days(8 months 5 days) apart!

M 101 (Pinwheel Galaxy) taken last night, 2-1-2024 is blink compared with an image taken in May 2023 to see change in supernova of 2023. While still visible is has attenuated quite a bit. Last night’s image was taken with the AT80ED scope with ZWO M183C camera, live stacking 1147 5 second frames.

Meeting postponed/cancelled due to winter storm!

Good grief!

Mike Quirk will attend

Bill Davidson.

John Attewell: bun/meat/cheese sandwiches

Jan and Don Schlosnagle: sweet & sour chicken holiday hot dish

John Martin will attend. Hotdish.

Mike Carlin will attend.

Michael Currie will attend.

Will take a look John. Also check out the Gemini meteor shower later tonight!

Wow. I was taught that Earth’s rotation was slowly slowing as the tides transferred its spin angular momentum to the Moon’s orbital angular momentum. This suggests that Earth’s mass distribution has contracted a bit.

Thank you Jim!

Great images Bob!

A tale of two Messiers: M 97 also known as the Owl Nebula and M 108 a starburst galaxy also known as the Surfboard galaxy are within a degree of each other in Ursa Major. The image was taken with the AT80ED refractor and ZWO 183MC camera on 12/7 at midnight (or so). I used Stellarium as a source for the star labels.