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See details of the Forestville Dark Sky Festival in the outreach folder on the forum. Looks like they plan on holding as many events as possible with or without clear skies. Saturday evening’s forecast for the deep sky viewing is looking better. The solar viewing forecast from 3-6 pm at the Mystery Cave site is still questionable.

sorry, thought the saturday you were referring to was this saturday the 20th!

i could do saturday if weather permits.

Eagle Bluff is available for us Friday & Saturday August 26th and 27th, per Dean who wants to get out there!

Very nice pic of the comet but it looks like that poor thing didn’t have a chance because you don’t see it exit on the other side of the sun.  If you watch closely you can see it accellerate as it approaches the sun.

A still image from today’s (Aug 6th) SOHO C3 camera showing a probable CME (red arrow) as well as a small comet (yellow arrow).  See these events in the gif animation of C3 images above as well.

Good conditions last night. Took some backyard pictures with the Orion 6.3 mpixel camera and 60 mm guide scope. I’m still a novice at deep sky photography but am amazed at what a short time exposure can do (15 to 60 seconds). M 22 and M 31 are below.

Big CMEs too!

Great C3 SOHO video of Mercury swinging around an active sun in the last 4 days

Thanks Jim!

good one Bob 🙂

An early morning (around 1 am on 7-14-2022) photo of Saturn. Sky conditions were good. Saturn’s rings are ‘closing’ compared to last year but the Cassini division is clearly visible. The image below has been processed by Registax6 (350 frames) and Photoshop Elements. The scope was my 10 inch SCT and the camera was the Orion 6.3 Mpixel camera.

anyone have the durn passcode for the meeting?

BTW I misspelled that double star; should be Albireo!

Some recent Starblast 4.5 in. telescope – Orion 6.3 megapixel images. The small inset (lower right) image is the colorful double star Alberio in Cygnus.

Weather is looking good for tonight. “Should” be clear until 2am.

Anyone up for Observing tonight?