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It doesn’t look good. Unless anybody wants to start at midnight or 1:00am.

Honestly, I’m thinking about it.

If the clear sky clock is correct, Saturday is going to be much better than tonight. But when running it forward it’s not a set weather pattern. It’s predicting clouds will precipitate out of the humidity as temps drop. That’s less predictable.

I’m going to keep my eye on it.

It’s shifting a lot. Right now it depends on how much those clouds get pushed up from the south. The norm is west to east, or north west to south east; either would be good. This is predicting south west to north east… which means warmer weather but not good for our nighttime skies.

We’ll have to keep an eye on it. Thanks for the heads up.

Hopefully Friday will be AGNFA.  Right now, the Clear Sky Chart for Friday has it clouding up the time you would get out there.

Sorry, I didn’t make it out. The weekend was too busy with visitors and projects. This weekend is Eagle Bluff all the way. I hope the weather is good to us.

It looks like it may clear up a bit tonight, not sure.  I’ll probably just put the scope out the back if it clears completely.

If you do head out this weekend Duane, please let me know, or anyone else.

I would like to, but I have company both tonight and tomorrow. If I got out, it would have to be Saturday and I would be starting late. Not sure I can even make that happen.

Maybe on Sunday I could get out for a couple hours.

Duane

Anyone thinking of going out anywhere observing this weekend?  It looks like it will be clear most every night, at least right now anyway according to the clear sky chart.  The doesn’t rise until well after midnight, so I’ll be home by then.  🙂

Nice M31. It is such a huge target and harder to capture than one would think.

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

Minutes from August 12th, 2025.

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

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.

Minutes from August 12th, 2025 meeting at RCTC.

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]

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]