Richmond Astronomical Society Meeting on Tuesday
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Please attend if you can.
Myron
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Jim Browder - RAS President via groups.io" <lunavision.geo@...>
Date: March 10, 2025 at 11:12:27?AM EDT
To: RAC
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Myron Wasiuta
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Richmond Astronomical Society Meeting on Tuesday
The Next Meeting of Richmond Astronomical Society is
Tuesday, March 11, 7:30 PM at the Science Museum of Virginia
(2500 West Broad St.) and online at the link below. Everyone is welcome.
RAS board
By
Jim Browder - RAS President
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#4263
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Re: M95 and Quasar
Amazing
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Phillip Carter III
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#4262
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Re: M95 and Quasar
Nice
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Troy Major
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M95 and Quasar
Dear RAC,
MSRO user Marshall Faintich requested time on the MSRO 2 telescope recently to image M 95 in Leo. Enclosed is an "LRGB" image made using the photometric RB and V bands to simulate red, blue
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4260
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New base
Shout out to Troy for building me this base! Backnin business baby!
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Corey Dallmeyer
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#4259
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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
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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
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4257
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Astronomical League Live this Friday, March 7 at 7 pm EST
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RAC Treasurer
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#4256
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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
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RAC Secretary
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Staunton River Star Party registration is open
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RAC Treasurer
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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:
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Corey Dallmeyer
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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
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Peter Laky
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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
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Glenn Holliday
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Re: Star party ON tonight at Caledon
I was going to head down but it¡¯s seriously windy and really cloudy here in Spotsylvainia.
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Troy Major
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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.
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Glenn Holliday holliday@...
[email protected]> wrote:
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Glenn Holliday
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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
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Glenn Holliday
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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
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Troy Major
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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
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Bruce Bixby
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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
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Myron Wasiuta
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