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No, not a plot of land marketed by the shysters at https://lunarregistry.com/ Even I know better than to blow over a hundred bucks an acre sight-unseen. Maybe after I've gone and looked at it. But seriously, as a subscriber to Astronomy Magazine I get about a thousand emails a day, all trying to con...

...and now it all makes sense. Back at the beginning of summer some of the folks over at the SSAS group started following the auction of Clyde Tombaugh's personal telescope, which in and of itself wasn't especially significant except for the fact that it had ties to the man who discovered Pluto. Cly...

Indeed Roger's image was framed to house and show off the clusters and not necessarily oriented to the N-S-E-W presentation. I took a portion of Roger's image and rotated it to match the orientation of Paul's chart, and it is indeed some of the nebulosity of Sharpless-173 captured in the image. The ...

Hi Pete,

I'd like to take credit for that high quality document, but the member who wrote it is Tony Tripodi, whose passion for double stars knows no limits.

Mike M.

How to Find the Andromeda Galaxy in the Night Sky Knowing where the Andromeda Galaxy is in the night sky and how to find it is almost like a rite of passage in our hobby. When you can quickly and effortlessly land your eyes or optics on the closest and brightest large spiral galaxy outside the Milk...

Tuesday, September 20, 2022; What are you doing this weekend? As of today the forecast looks favorable for some deep sky observing on both Friday and Saturday nights. Are you considering getting out with your telescope? If so, I’ve got a target suggestion for you. Messier #39 is a large open cluste...

Hi Paul,

I use both Stellarium and Cartes du Ciel. These ones were made with Stellarium.

Mike

The planet Neptune just passed through opposition and few days ago, so going forward becomes a nice evening target for intrepid star gazers. Seeing Neptune isn't spectacularly rewarding as planetary observing goes, until you consider that it lies somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5ish BILLION miles...

ENCKE OR BUST!!!

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