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thats cool Josef! thanks for posting 🙂

After 8 p.m. I parked on 65th Street, walked to the field and took pictures of the aurora from my tripod. Suddenly I noticed a bright, almost vertical band to the west. I began to wonder what it was. For a few moments I thought it might be the tail of the now set comet A3, which has suddenly become very bright and only the tail is visible.…[Read more]

Very nice Josef.  Here another view from my backyard.

Aurora Borealis over constellation Corona Borealis above 75th ST NW

Geomagnetic storming with nice aurora over 2/3 of sky NOW! (9 pm 10-10-2024)

Look at this fantastic pic from SOHO today of a massive CME and the comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS near the sun!  We may get another G4 geomagnetic storm on Oct 10 and the comet may lose it’s tail!

Thank you! That is good feedback. I will see if I can incorporate it and maybe even put it in the form as a variable for people to enter.

Very interesting John! I wonder if the search could customize a minimum horizon like 5 -10 degrees to refine usable targets.

Thank you, Josef! This is very helpful. I wonder if I can direct the API to tell OpenAI only to use certain sources that we trust. I will work on it. thanks again!

John, this is great project!

I tried to generate for the period from October 7, 2024, between 22:15 and 23:45. See attached PDF.

Here is what I found not accurate:

#1 Cannot not be visible: Mars is rising around 23:45
#6 Cannot not be visible: M8 is setting down around 22:15
#7 Cannot not be visible: M42 is rising around midnight
#9 Visible…[Read more]

Aurora Borealis just from NW Rochester backyard tonight October 7th.

I just went outside, put on my eclipse glasses and saw a big sunspot. It’s almost in the middle of the disk.

Aurora Borealis at 8:49 tonight, October 6, from 75th Street NW. Canon EOS T6, 24mm, f/2.8,ISO3200,8s.

I am headed to Eagle Bluff tonight.

At Okie-Tex this week Randy, Jerome and myself enjoyed the clear dark skies and views of galaxies (especially M77 in Cetus) and small planetary nebulae.
Last night back in Rochester I imaged M77 and noticed an edge on galaxy (which turned out to be NGC 1055). These are the two largest galaxies in their neighborhood approximately 50-60 million…[Read more]

I’m hoping to make it too. My son had a seizure today and I’m in the ER right now waiting for tests to be done.

I am thinking about Root River Park tonight, I hope I’ll make it.

Awesome! Anybody else out there planning to go?

if I’m on my own, I may head to root river. It’s so much closer. But if others are planning to go I would be happy to join.

Eagle Bluff just confirmed that the parking lot is available tonight and tomorrow night for observing and the lights will be off. Wish I could be there, but I’m in Staples watching grandkids…