Dear AAAA Members and Friends: I recently lost my Corvus.com domain name due to circumstances beyond my control. For that reason, the old CORVUS.COM website is...
I received the following notice from David Dunham of IOTA, and want to pass it along. Edward P. Flaspoehler, Jr., President American Association of Amateur...
Welcome to Worldwide Astronomy 101! Beginning Monday, February 7, a 13-week astronomy and planetary science course sponsored by The Planetary Society and...
This is an interesting message that came to me today. Interested persons feel free to apply! Ed Flaspoehler, AAAA American Association of Amateur Astronomers ...
This consitutes my longest exposures to date with a total of 5 hours and 50 minutes through LRGB,Ha,SII & OIII filters. The "normal" RGB and the wild Hubble...
Last week I purchased a Coronado PST telescope from Astronomics. Very nicely made piece of equipment. I haven't had a chance to view through it until last...
Nope ours is working excellently. Mind you we did take the lens cap off........ D'OH... all kidding aside the viewing port inside the scope is quite small, so...
Yeah Smitty, I tried one out at the last star party. Same thing!!!! About the only thing that I could see was the moon when it rose. Go figure. I just thought...
Smitty, I bought a PST for WU a while back. It works great...for solar. You said you took it out "last night." I haven't tried ours at night, but the daytime...
... about night use. I still haven't had a chance to view old Sol with it yet, work and the weather have been conspiring against me. Are you having trouble ...
Well, it wasn't a half an hour since I posted my last message and the sun started breaking through the clouds. Managed to observe for approx. 25 minutes and...
Smitty, The eyepiece that came with the PST seems to work best, but I agree about the difficulty for non-experienced observers using it. That's why I usually...
You guys might find this hard to swallow, but honest to goodness, it's the absolute truth! For some odd reason, Coronado designed these scopes to not operate...
The smallest planet of our Solar System, Pluto was named after the Roman god of the dead, also Greek god of the underworld. Since, little was known about the ...
Well sheesh! Blame it on old Smitty, why don't ya. Yeah, okay - I'll shoulder the blame, heh- heh! Of course Star Hopper does have a point, and I've been SOL...
I remember reading somewhere (I think it was the book "Seeing In The Dark") that almost a full year passed before he found Pluto. If he had started a month...
Well while yer trying to pull your T shirt up over that swollen head of yours Smitty. The excellent thing about the PST is the fact that you can use any 1.25...
I received this announcement this morning, and want to pass it along. Ed Flaspoehler American Association of Amateur Astronomers _http://www.astromax.com_...
Gee :-) I always thought those folks were saying I had a swell head on my shoulders. . . Okay, okay, Paul! I'll give you an equal share, not only can it be a...
My Flint River Astronomy Club is holding our Georgia Sky View 2005 star party at Camp McIntosh, Indian Springs State Park near Jackson, Georgia. See our club...
Ohhh brother!!?! hahahaha..... Well the weather's been excellent up here the number of day's...but I haven't had a look via the PST we have...another member is...
Hello Everybody, I am sorry, if I ask this question again, This is important to me and I don't think I have received and answer as of so far. [input]...
... as of so far. ... meaning, does it ever happen that every planet eclipses another? ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TO: Erich Hänseler Zürichstrasse 33 8306...
In a message dated 2/19/2005 3:43:49 AM Central Standard Time, kreativist@... writes: Hello Everybody, I am sorry, if I ask this question again, This is...
I am moving very slowly with my processing these days. This was from the weekend of the 6th up at Chiefland. Taken with the H9 and Tak FS60C, I also used some...
An absolutely incredible shot Charlie... my goodness!!!! Can anyone say.....WALL PAPER!!! ____________________________________ Paul Greenhalgh D.S.W Fraser...
Thanks Paul This was a fun one to shoot. It is a remarkable area of sky. Well, actually I say that about all areas of the sky. 8>) I guess that is why I am...
Not the double cluster in Perseus. This is another nice one in Gemini, which is is prime position now. I have not imaged too many star clusters lately, which...