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Keep in mind that Gatineau is currently under a 8pm curfew, and you'll be fined if you're caught outdoors after that time. Richard

I’m new to observing and I’m trying to find a convenient site for ~3 hours of observing. I live downtown Ottawa. Looking at the light pollution map, going north along Gatineau Park gets me the

Jason, It's the Whirlpool Galaxy (Messier M51) which is located near the handle of the Big Dipper in the Norther Hemisphere. Regards, Graeme -- (Astro)Photographer / YouTube

Thanks Graeme, I enjoyed that video. Good advertising for the Lennox and Addington dark sky site too. I'll be visiting Prince Edward County in August for a week with the family and will definitely

Hi, They are good pictures. What is the name of the celestial body in the picture? regards, Jason

Really starting to tune in my post-processing workflow and understand what my equipment is capable of doing... in under 2 minutes. 10 sec vs 100 sec vs Significantly Longer (a hour of effort minus

FYI, an interesting article on a growing source of light pollution.? Best --

I know a guy and will check. When we're you thinking of building? Do you have the specs/plans? Protect your Freedom https://eff.org/EFF30

Hello Ottawa astronomers! I'm about to go down an "observatory" rabbit-hole again, having considered lots of options in the past, but I think I'm pulling the trigger this year on an 8x10 with roll

Hi All, Mark Lord is a local astronomer (but not yet a member of RASCor OAFs, I'm working on him!), and he wants to try out some of the various HomeBrew / Open-Source telescope interfaces that are

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Bummer got my webcam too late, and could not find my microphone. Moving a bunch of times does that! Hey why wait 31 days for another one?

I passed on competing in a test-tube eating contest at my local covid-19 testing lab: ref: <https://xkcd.com/2333/> It was a fun zoom. Nice to have seen you all.

Hi Folks, A big thanks to Richard for hosting us this evening. I am so glad that I passed on joining all my buddies down at the local bar tonight. It really was nice to see some familiar faces and

Sorry you missed it. But note that it is possible to phone into a zoom chat to get at least the audio part (if you have free long distance). Thanks to Richard M. for hosting the oafs zoom. I suggest

As mentioned in the Zoom chat, there is a good cheat-sheet on how to collimate SCTs. (Quite different than for newts): <http://www.starrynights.us/Articles/Collimation.htm> Richard H and I used this

What a? time for a wireles adapter to fail ,no internet? hope we can try this again sometime soon

Hello RASC and OAFs, One of our local astronomers has had to make the tough decision to let go of his scope due to his advancing age and health, and I'm helping facilitate a note to the group. He has

I will be there one way or another!

A good point.? I trimmed the phone info out of the invite to keep it short, but there is voice-only dial-in info if anyone would like to do voice-only.? Unfortunately there is no local Ottawa