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A modern video demonstrating the archaic observation of what a planet is … “a celestial body distinguished from the fixed stars by having an apparent motion of its own”.  In this case the planet Mars (to the left of the  sun moves left against the background stars which all move to the right.

Thanks Josef!  (So nice to see you on the bike trail  yesterday!)

Nice Saturn, Bob!

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Not sure why. the images I posted recently look so poor on the website. I’ll post a tiff file version and see what happens.

Saturn on 9/23/2021.6 Seeing was better than last 2 days but certainly not great. Again used a 10″ Meade SCT with the Orion 6.3 M pixel color camera. Use Autostakker + Registax 6 to enhance.

great image Bob!

thanks Bob!

While under poor seeing conditions Jupiter still put on a good show just after midnight 9-19-2021. Image below used Meade 10″ SCT and Orion 6.3 M pixel color camera. Some image stacking with Registax6 and Photoshop Elements enhancement.

Bringing the StarBlast to the soccer fields tonight.  Should be good for the moon craters Josef mentioned!

Bob

thanks for posting this Bob! really cool pic 😉

Ugh! Couldn’t be there that night. However I did some observing of the sun the day of 9-6-2021. As many of you may know the sun is ramping up it’s sunspot activity and currently is quite impressive. Yesterday I took a short video using the Starblast 4.5 in reflector with the Orion 6.3M pixel color camera. A single frame, (enhanced a little in…[Read more]

Just talked to Dean. Looks like no Eagle Bluff tonight. So local viewing or Root River/Keller.

If eagle bluff is a no go, I’d do root river.

Mike, would you do Root River or Keller if Eagle Bluff isn’t an option?

I heard that Dean might be working with Eagle Bluff, but not sure which night it was going to be. I’d like to go out.

Hey folks! Anyone thinking of heading out tonight?

Awesome John!  Will have to get a star field photo of the nova region soon!

I went to Root River Park after the astronomy club meeting to view the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi.  Check it out!  It will probably still be visible the next few nights.  I found it quite easily but it took me some time to verify that I was looking at the correct object from the bunch of printouts and star maps that I took with me.  After much mix…[Read more]