2023 January Meeting Minutes

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Observe Titan shadow transits

July 9, 2025 Josef Chlachula FrontPage Comments Off on Observe Titan shadow transits
This year 2025, we still have a unique opportunity to observe Titan’s shadow passing across Saturn’s disk as we learned at the last members’ meeting from Bob Fealey. Below is an adapted table taken from Sky and Telescope. For mid transits, there are links to Saturn in stellarium-web.org , opens in new tab. Upcoming Titan shadow transits (UT/CDT) Date DoW […]
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Sun at RochesterFest

June 26, 2025 Josef Chlachula FrontPage, Members Blog Comments Off on Sun at RochesterFest
A public observation of the Sun at RochesterFest was planned for Tuesday 6/24 and for Saturday 6/28. Tuesday 6/24 we planned a public observation of the Sun at RochesterFest from 5 to 7 p.m. Actually, 2025 was the first year that RAC participated in RochesterFest. We were pleasantly surprised by the organizers, who provided transportation for our telescopes and other […]
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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)

October 17, 2024 Josef Chlachula FrontPage Comments Off on Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has indeed become very observable with the naked eye after all. It can be photographed quite well with smartphones. Of course, a camera with a larger aperture provides a better image, not to mention the quality lenses. How to find the comet in the sky is described quite well in the Sky and Telescope article  Comet […]
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Root River Park 2024

June 11, 2024 Josef Chlachula FrontPage Comments Off on Root River Park 2024
Root River Park is located south of Rochester and is owned by Olmstead County. It is a small but pretty park adjacent to the North branch of the Root river. Rochester residents don’t use this park much and that’s a shame. However, this park is beneficial to amateur astronomers. The sky is dark enough to observe faint objects on a […]
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Aurora on May 10, 2024

May 20, 2024 Josef Chlachula FrontPage Comments Off on Aurora on May 10, 2024
The night of Friday, May 10, was the first night for club members under the dark skies of Eagle Bluff after a long winter. To our surprise, it wasn’t even dark yet and already we saw something very special – the Northern Lights, and even in the south. A few minutes later, while it was still dusk, the International Space […]
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Total Eclipse 2024

April 18, 2024 Josef Chlachula FrontPage Comments Off on Total Eclipse 2024
Did you observe the last total solar eclipse on April 8? Do you have valuable photos, video or notes? Perhaps they are suitable for submission and certification by the Astronomical League. Here is the information you need for submission: Location of the observer’s site, including longitude and latitude* Date and time of the observations (either UT or local time)* Instrument […]

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  • January 22, 2023 at 7:40 pm #14100
    Randy H
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      January 13, 2023 meeting minutes.

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      January 23, 2023 at 3:04 pm #14102
      fealeybob14
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        Hello Randy

        Minutes reviewed; thanks.  (BTW the last name is spelled Fealey).  Jay and I have done an initial cleaning of the AT80ED refractor.  I have a brief Power Point presentation on our efforts I will send it to you either here as an attachment or via your email.  Haven’t had it mounted for a star diffraction test but have viewed some terrestrial objects and photographed some distant signs through the scope.  Would wonder if you have a Vixen saddle on one of  your scopes so we might attach it to a motorized scope and check it out more thoroughly.  Otherwise we can reconnect the scope to the Sky Watcher mount head and the tripod (? the one Jerome has now).

        The pptx file is attached.

        Thanks Randy

        Bob Fealey

         

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        January 23, 2023 at 3:09 pm #14104
        fealeybob14
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          P.S.  The mouse is photoshopped!  A dead mouse was NOT found!

          Bob

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