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New base
Shout out to Troy for building me this base! Backnin business baby!
By Corey Dallmeyer · #4259 ·
Cruises
MA Stargazing Cruises stellar-events.orgI wonder if they would do group cruises? That looks like it would be a lot of fun.
By Troy Major · #4258 ·
M95 with unknown asteroid
Dear RAC,Perhaps someone can help ID the asteroid in the upper left part of the image. This may be 2270 Yazhi (16th mag), but my software places in outside the field of view. I have annotated the
By Myron Wasiuta · #4257 ·
Astronomical League Live this Friday, March 7 at 7 pm EST
By RAC Treasurer · #4256 ·
Something for Myron to try
Here is a link to one of the 2023 Photo Contest winners I ran across going over some old issues of Optics & Photonics News. It was even done with a 10-inch Ritchy-Chretien and a Star
By RAC Secretary · #4255 ·
Staunton River Star Party registration is open
By RAC Treasurer · #4254 ·
Re: Star party report
That's cool man, the other night, Friday night I went out with my 8-in dobsonian and had quite a group! [email protected]> wrote:
By Corey Dallmeyer · #4253 ·
NGC 2276
Hi Everyone! Spent some time last night re-imaging NGC 2276 using MSRO 2 (thanks Myron!) under somewhat more favorable conditions than my last attempt. The main issue last night was strong wind
By Peter Laky · #4252 ·
Star party report
Hello all, The weather was much worse than forrecast tonight, but we had 17 people at our Rappahannock Astronomy Club star party at Caledon. I talked with one family moving into the area and looking
By Glenn Holliday · #4251 ·
Re: Star party ON tonight at Caledon
I was going to head down but it¡¯s seriously windy and really cloudy here in Spotsylvainia.
By Troy Major · #4250 ·
Re: Star party ON tonight at Caledon
I'm at Caledon. The wind is increasing, so I brought binoculars and not a long optical tube. -- Glenn Holliday holliday@... [email protected]> wrote:
By Glenn Holliday · #4249 ·
Star party ON tonight at Caledon
Good morning everybody! All the forecasts call for a clear evening to see the planetary alignment with a crescent Moon. The temperature will decrease from the 40s to freezing, so please dress to
By Glenn Holliday · #4248 ·
Re: T CrB update
There¡¯s a pull off across the road from Todd¡¯s tavern market. Good wide open sight all the way to the horizon looking west. Its in Spotsylvainia though on rt 630
By Troy Major · #4247 ·
Re: T CrB update
Good evening, all, Random question, what is the best place to get unobstructed views of the horizon? In Fredericksburg and Stafford, East and west? Particularly to the west tonight for the planet
By Bruce Bixby · #4246 ·
Re: T CrB update
Brian, While photography filters can be used- they do nit have the defined, known light transmission profile used by professionals who may want the data. You can still due photometry however in the
By Myron Wasiuta · #4245 ·
Re: ATM time
? ? ? Brian, I have ground several 6 and 8 inch mirrors and have made multiple wooden truss tube dobsonians( 2 of which I still have and use) in the 12 and 16¡±apertures. These use commercial
By Myron Wasiuta · #4244 ·
ATM time
RAC, It seems that I am headed down the Amature telescope making path. Has anyone in the group gotten their hands dirty with this? I¡¯ve been reading lots of forums and blogs of other peoples
By Brian Barbre · #4243 ·
Re: T CrB update
Myron, A few questions. The filters that you use for this type of work, can photography filters be used in a similar way to examine curves and magnitudes? What is the software that you use to analyze
By Brian Barbre · #4242 ·
Re: T CrB update
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By Carl Darron · #4241 ·
T CrB update
Good Morning, I have started following T CrB in B band as this is more sensitive to changes in activity on and around the white dewarf. The star continues to flicker between magnitudes 11.1 and 11.3
By Myron Wasiuta · #4240 ·