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Lately I've been a little lazy. Worked on area 51 more than I have used it, but for an hour I looked at the two closest giants. Saturn was first, being it was high in the sky. Viewing wasn't great but not terrible. Could make out one moon and a little banding on the planet. What amazed me the most was the way the ring is really starting to get closer to edge on! Jupiter finally cleared the tree tops, but was extremely bright so low in the Eastern sky. Just some faint banding visible and only 3 of the closest moons. A good hour after not viewing for a while. Even saw a good fast meteor that for a moment left the dusty trail of sparks as it disappeared for ever.

It always seems the days I work the sky is incredible. Very clear, good seeing! At 3:30 the longer I let my eyes adjust, the more of the milkyway appeared. It ran from cassieopia over to scorpio. Jupiter just beginning to rise, and before I went back in a quick meteor beneath the Great Square of Pegasus! But alas, work was calling!

Amazing!

Mecca! I'd think not so much what you see now, but what you feel. Me, it would have to be Italy and Galileo's stomping ground! If I could not see a single star, I would still stand there wondering how it had to feel to know what you saw, and what you knew must be, only to be prosecuted so terribly!

I am amazed that the first time anyone here posted a heads up, I was able to view and image it! Never seems to work out now with my 3 day work schedule! Oh yeah, 16:50, it's still omg daylight!😆

Having recently seen NEO being spotted a few hours in advance of entering the atmosphere, along with very good prediction at where it would enter it, my question would be if one was seen coming two hours away, would the public be informed? Either way, one impacting a large city, or releasing mega tons of energy just above ground would be devastating. The panic would end up with the highways overwhelmed with traffic, making it possibly worse than keeping quiet an the picking up the pieces.

Excellent! The image that shows no SN, then does show it is really eye opening! Just seeing the amount of visible light makes it really apparent how large of an area this would have affected!

Seems to be a lot of this on FB market place around me.

I only have a few books. Just started collecting them recently. But my favorite is this one. It's very limited edition, possibly only two or three copies. My daughter surprised me with a little album she had made.

I read on an internet link that with this SN, they believe ANY type of life would have definitely ended within 10ly. If I did my math correctly, that's roughly 60 trillion miles. Hard for my meager mind to comprehend, but it discussed atmospheres being stripped away, surfaces cooked. Maybe the figure of 160 ly is taking in account of many things other than the big boom itself. But this fusion bomb wouldn't have fit in the belly of a B29. All I keep thinking is, The old Mr. Spock with the new James T. Kirk. "A star went supernova and threatened to destroy the Galaxy!"

Beautiful!

Hey, he has a good point. I've always said a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work! I can't comment as far as imaging. But maybe I look up into the sky, just to try and know whats out there.

What are your temps running. Its been sunny in Florida lately, yesterday in the nearest larger town it was 95°f with a heat index of 115°. Our afternoon rains havent got going full force yet to cool us off.

Those are great photos! I was talking with SWMBO just yesterday about how Pluto was discovered using film. It's amazing what astronomers accomplished using the equipment they had to use.

An incredible capture.

Fantastic! Sounds like your grandson is as special to you as mine are to me! How old is Patrick?

1000 galaxies, amazing. Well done! I'm someone who really wants to believe there is someone out there looking back at us. Just imagine all the stories that could be told in those galaxies, far, far, away!

Thank you sir for the incredible image and excellent information!

Only thing I can say is thank you, everyone, for all the work that makes this forum work!

As a taxpayer, I might have big, deep pockets. But, they are always almost empty! Time to discuss what the word "budget" really means!

So, its big news that NASA's SLS is unbelievably over budget! At least 6 billion dollars! And, Boeings push to compete with SpaceX to put men into space has been put on hold while they review "problems", leaving SpaceX the only magic bus to the ISS! Time for some serious talks with both NASA and the suppliers!

I was blown away by the information in the "Duplex"!

Excellent! If the dark sunspots are cooler areas, are the light areas you see in the images hotter?

Thanks! Start 4 days off tomorrow so maybe the cloud Gods will let me view it!

Thanks, that is excellent!