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I got in a few hours of? observing before my Losmandy mount gave up the ghost with power failure indication. It truly does not like the cold weather. The battery had been sitting for a few weeks so I

Hey Troy. These clear winter early sunset nights are enticing. I am actually considering getting off my couch and coming up. Carpe Noctem Bill McLean

That's how it goes it seems. Red spot tonight on Jupiter around 10. I have an AR 152 but have not had much luck getting the power up for planets that require higher power. I do like it for deep sky

100% agree. I used my 6" ES AR152 refractor instead of the C11. It was indeed "rough" as you said. On nights like this, I get my astro 'fix' from Jupiter b/c no matter how bad the seeing is, it's

Not much of one last night. Since Mars is about the same rotation as we are you get the same face for nights in a row.

Thanks Mark - always like to read your observations.

The good news: *Transparency* looks good & *Seeing* looks decent for wintertime. The bad news: the Sunset temperature forecast is *30F*, the 11PM temperature forecast is *18F*. Brrrr ... You know the

Seeing was pretty rough as expected with a cold front coming in. It was not impossible to do any work on Mars but only the most rudimentary stuff. In short, the usual. I toggled between 239x and 197x.

Oh yes the brightest thing in the sky when? it does reflect

I didn’t even know that nasa had a solar sail. I’m out of the loop. Will

Magnitude 1.8 Looked back on the Monday pass schedule and time.

I hope it doesn't bother you because there are loads of them. The picture enclosed is a good example of what can't be seen telescopically.? But I do recall a couple of nights, 3 to 5 years ago, when

Thanks Mark.? I didn't really expect to see any surface detail in my scope.? When I set these kinds of challenges for myself I really don't expect to see anything. But sometimes I do get my hopes up

No, beyond amateur scopes visually. Olympus Mons has not been on the face recently and you would have to have clouds above it and see the clouds. Clouds are usually seen in light blue filters. All

OK, perhaps this is cheating somewhat (so sue me). But I’ve enjoyed Lower’s Nebula twice with the 18-inch Dob using a PVS-14 white phosphor night vison device and a 7nm h-alpha filter atop a 50mm

I think I made a mistake reading people's observations of mars on Cloudy Nights. There were two objects that people reported being able to see visually in 8" to 10" scopes: "Olympus Mons" and the

I've only suspected seeing Lower's Nebula once from Coinjock NC using my 25" Dobsonian: Lower's Nebula - Sh 2-261 (Bright Nebula in Orion) Observed: Jan 19, 2014, 9:20:00 PM I could barely see some

Since TCC is closed for the holidays, our BBAA meeting this Thursday, January 2, 2025 will be held at the Kempsville Recreation Center on Monmouth Drive in Virginia Beach, 7:30 - 9:00 pm. I don't know

You both need hep!??? :)

It was a good night last night. Dry and very transparent. Good transit of Europa across Jupiter. Terrible Mars seeing. Oh and a very interesting observation. Around 8:30 or so a very very bright