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I really want to get out. If this week has a clear night, and I don’t have any work appointments, does anybody want to hit Root River with me?

Did they change the lock or did you just have the wrong key?

it’s not looking good for tonight. Clouds are popping out of thin air!

Hi all. I went to Root River Park on 5/14 to observe and photograph galaxies. Unfortunately, the key I had did not fit the lock box on the parking lot light!! So I went home to enjoy the ‘Realm of Galaxies’. I’ll post a photo in a bit.

Duane, I won’t be heading out there at midnight.  If you do decide to head out, you may want to switch to Root River instead of Eagle Bluff.  Looks like it will clear in Rochester before it does in Eagle Bluff, maybe clear a couple of hours earlier.

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.