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Astronomical League Live this Friday - February 7
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Subject: Astronomical League Live this Friday - February 7 Date: 2025-02-04 20:39 From: <dknabb01@...> To: "Don 01 account" <dknabb01@...> Greetings MERAL Presidents, ALCors, editors, officers, and others, Attached is a graphic announcing the next Astronomical League Live show that will be shown this Friday, February 7 at 7 p.m. EST. The main presentation is by Tom Reinert, past president of Dark Sky International. I was fortunate to hear Tom's talk last summer at Green Bank Star Quest and I enjoyed the presentation a great deal. My wife and I were camping not far from Tom and his wife, and they are wonderful people. A link to view the live stream will become active on the Astronomical League Facebook page shortly before the presentation. Here is a link to that page: Please share the information about the upcoming Astronomical League Live show with your club members. Also - we are due to hold elections for the MERAL officer positions. According to the MERAL by-laws the Chair and Vice-chair should be elected during odd numbered years and the other three positions are elected during even numbered years. Therefore, the positions open for election are Chair and Vice-chair. However, the Secretary position is currently unfilled. If anyone would like to volunteer to run for any of these three positions, please let me know. If you would like to read the MERAL by-laws that define the officer positions, please let me know and I will gladly send you a copy. Clear skies, Don Knabb MERAL Chair |
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IC 405 Flaming star Nebula
Dear RAC, OK so not the best target to go after from under mediocre skies and not shooting narrow band-but wanted to see what I could get. This image is made from 4 color channels-B,V,R, and I. The near IR band is the deep rd and picks up some very obscured objects-particularly the deep red star on the left. Thers also a reddish fuzzy object near the bottom right-a background galaxy perhaps, or maybe just a nebular condensation. Ill look into this more but wanted to share this image. Its 25 minutes in each band-so not near enough exposure time. I used the MSRO/RAC 10" RC and QHY 294 M Pro cmos camera. Myron |
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Re: NGC4565 - The Needle Galaxy
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý? Wade that¡¯s beautiful! I really like how the needle tapers from yellow to blue as the density of Population II stars in the nucleus gives way to younger Population I stars in the spiral arms.? Myron On Feb 2, 2025, at 3:43?PM, Troy Major via groups.io <Troymajor61@...> wrote:
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Re: M 97 The Owl Nebula
Very nice! On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 2:02?PM Myron Wasiuta via <myrnteryx4=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: M109 from MSRO
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý? Thanks Claire! Yes it should be a pretty conjunction tonight!? Myron On Feb 1, 2025, at 7:40?PM, Claire Gardiner via groups.io <vfdirector@...> wrote:
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M 94
Dear RAC, Last night I got about 3 hours of exposure on M 94 in hopes of being able to detect its very large but faint outer halo, Ive sent two versions-one highlighting the galaxy itself, and the other its faint outer halo. These were imaged with the 10" MSRO/RAC RC telescope and QHY 294 M Pro CMOS camera using BVR filters and creating a pseudo-RGB image. Myron |
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T CrB Light Curves 2025-February 2
Dear RAC, CAS , and Friends, Well the outburst of T CrB that was expected last year did not happen, and over the past month I have been following this star in the morning sky. It seems to have settled somewhat into quiescence so the wait continues. Here is about 30 minutes of data this morning before clouds interfered. Myron |
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M109 from MSRO
Dear RAC,
Here is another version of M109 taken using the 10¡± MSRO/ RAC telescope. It was processed by my friend Steve R of the Charlottessville Astronomical Society. It¡¯s about 3 hours of exposure using the photometric BVR filters for the color channels and combining as a RGB composite Myron |
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Re: M 109
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý? It is a perfect example of a barred spiral- one of the prettiest in the sky for sure! And very easy to find- just off the edge of the bowl of the Big Dipper near Gamma Ursa Majoris.? On Jan 31, 2025, at 9:18?AM, Brian Barbre via groups.io <brianwbarbre@...> wrote:
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Re: M 109
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I¡¯m not familiar with that galaxy at all, but what a great example of a barred spiral.?
BWB
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Myron Wasiuta
Wade Allen
Brian Barbre
