Observing

Forum Post: RE: The Fourth Annual Memorial Day Weekend Marathon Online Star Party!

Poppa Chris — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:04:00 GMT

OK.... Well sure! Bring the Faygo! (Do they have Diet Faygo?)

Meanwhile... It's time to

PARTY!!!

Forum Post: RE: M57 Central Star

chipdatajeffB — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:36:00 GMT

It was fun finally being at the same star party at the same time, and we even had Jay Ballauer with us. Astronomy Magazine moderators almost had 'em surrounded!

From my 'Droid: Dave (r) and Jay:

and me and Jay (l):

in the Lodge at Prude Ranch, where Jay was speaking at the Texas Imaging Symposium.

Forum Post: RE: The Sombrero Galaxy's dark lane

DaveMitsky — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:23:00 GMT

[quote user="Eight-H-Haggis"]I was just wondering if Dave or others have known of any credible observations with smaller scopes below 4".[/quote]

My friend Dr. Robert Werkman and I gave it a try with his 90mm f/7 Stellarvue 90TBV fluorite triplet refractor one night during the Texas Star Party earlier this month. Unfortunately, the magnification utilized was only somewhere in the 100x range. The results were negative at that magnification. Robert didn't want to spend much time looking for M104's dark lane so that was as far as we got.

Forum Post: RE: Looking for a good stargazing location in Orange County, CA

zachsdad — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:10:00 GMT

Keep checking back. We have an active member who lives in that area and will be happy to give you his opinion.

Forum Post: RE: May thread

M44 — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:16:00 GMT

You may like to compare yesterday's lunar webcam results with Monday's afocal close-ups: sungazer127mak.blogspot.fr/.../may-2013.html

Forum Post: RE: Tuesday's Solar Halo

DaveMitsky — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:54:00 GMT

My best image of the solar halo has finally been posted at cs.astronomy.com/.../488988.aspx

Dave Mitsky

Forum Post: Last Weekend's Auroral Displays

DaveMitsky — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:15:00 GMT

CMEs struck the magnetosphere on May 18th and 19th, resulting in auroral displays as far south as Colorado.

http://spaceweather.com/gallery/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=81963

http://spaceweather.com/gallery/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=81970

Dave Mitsky

Forum Post: Sequence of 4 X-class flares on May 15th

anmalo — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:38:00 GMT

Hi:
On May 15th, 4 X-class flares were observed. THeir images is in APOD. The link is:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130516.html (No words)

Regards

Angel

Forum Post: RE: Mercury as May-June Evening Star

Poppa Chris — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:09:00 GMT

Good graphic. Should be a lot of help. Thanks!

Forum Post: RE: My star hopping sux

Lamar Doolittle — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:14:00 GMT

Last night I went out again, still can't get the computer to work.Even though this time it had a warp of <1. Oh well, I tried hopping again. I managed M's 10, 12, 5 104, 13, 4.

There were several though, I couldn't get like m 80.

Forum Post: RE: Out again on a Messier hunt

Poppa Chris — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:29:00 GMT

M13 was my very first DSO target when starting out in astrophotography. You must excuse the lack of processing skill in this early shot - one frame only at ISO1600 20secs. We all must crawl before we walk...

http://www.astrobin.com/full/23453/?mod=none

Forum Post: RE: May New Moon Spotting

DaveMitsky — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:58:00 GMT

I saw the young Moon and Jupiter from the parking lot of a fast food restaurant in Oklahoma City on the return trip from the Texas Star Party last Saturday evening.

Dave Mitsky

Forum Post: RE: Big Bright Full Moon – Occultation – Eclipse – May 24

Poppa Chris — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:27:00 GMT

All "Lunatics" should rejoice!

Forum Post: RE: Sunday night to remember..

Poppa Chris — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:30:00 GMT

M13? The Hercules Globular? Truly one of the best objects in the sky.

Forum Post: RE: Success at Last

DaveMitsky — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:54:00 GMT

I had my sixth and seventh views of Comet PanSTARRS last week from the site of the Texas Star Party through instruments ranging from an 8x42 binocular to a 22" premium Dob. The comet is much fainter now but the combined breadth of its two tails is remarkable.

Dave Mitsky

Forum Post: RE: Venus as Brilliant 2013 Evening Star

Poppa Chris — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:07:00 GMT

Yep, Rhonda is quite a classy lady. I'm pleased to know her here on the forum.

And your own service to our community is appreciated. I never fail to read them.

Forum Post: RE: I'm really trying to be patient

stepping beyond — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:01:00 GMT

I hear you;it's always something isn't it?

Forum Post: RE: Light Pollution Woes.

Poppa Chris — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:15:00 GMT

One mile above sea level? I'm at 37 feet ASL...

Still, the best skies I've ever seen were exactly at sea level - 100 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

Forum Post: RE: Last night was truly bewildering

stepping beyond — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:30:00 GMT

Those explanations sound really good,It could've been. I guess I'll always wonder

Forum Post: RE: Let's hope this is it ?

Poppa Chris — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:59:00 GMT

Good luck!