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Note the small Kreutz comet moving to the sun on May 9 and 10 in the above SOHO C3 video. It did not survive! See also today’s
SpaceWeather page https://spaceweather.com/.

It was so nice to get out with folks again on the 7th, as promised here’s the photo I was working on. I think my camera has some hot pixels I need to work out when processing. But, here’s the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023!

Todays spaceweather has an interesting picture and description of Mercury’s sodium tail. https://spaceweather.com/

I plan to be there tonight, as does Dean and a new astronomy friend of his.

Eagle Bluff is available for our use.

Hi, we are trying to contact Eagle Bluff to confirm for lights off and bathroom code.  Friday night (May 7) is looking good albeit chilly.  Hopefully they’ll respond quickly tomorrow.

Eagle Bluff would be perfect. Fingers crossed the weather holds up. If we don’t hear anything about EB, we can always do Root River.

Hello all,  Is it going to be clear Friday or Saturday night?  Is Eagle Bluff available?

Jeff

I’m going to unsticky this topic but feel free to post and issues or suggestions here.

Today (4/25) the C3 video shows Mercury (racing towards its best appearance in mid May in the western sky) nearly passing Venus in the C3 field of view.

I’m still using my modified Canon 70D. I did grab some photos of the Horse Head, but I noticed some of the smaller stars were a little out of focus. I’ll still post it later this week. Got to say, that CGX mount is very impressive.

I’m still using my modified Canon 70D. I did grab some photos of the Horse Head, but I noticed some of the smaller stars were a little out of focus. I’ll still post it later this week. Got to say, that CGX mount is very impressive.

Have to agree with Josef, Mike a very nice picture with you new scope!  (BTW what camera did you use?).  Your new scope should also be great on planetary pics.

I am still amazed how SOHO C3 (above) provides a window into the inner planets and the sun.  Watch how the brightness of Mercury on the right is decreasing while that of Venus (left) is increasing.  Note also how Mercury is moving faster around the sun and passing the background stars than is Venus.

Mike, good to see your nice picture of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_Nebula Happy to reply for the first time in newly converted forum!

Hey everyone, first post on the new forum! Looks great! Anyway, here’s a photo of the flame nebula. This was taken with my new EdgeHD 1100 W/CGX mount. Next investment might be a new ZWO camera, fingers crossed!