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maw lod qan

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  1. Excellent image. I hope everyone realizes how spoiled we are going to be come late October when we have to watch Mars shrinking again!😏
  2. I'm looking forward to some images of these skies!! I dont think I could get to Bortle 1 in Florida!
  3. My past two periods of days off have been, if not cloudy, then totally cloud covered due to the usual thunderstorms and tropical storm Sally. This morning finally cleared up enough for me to get out. There was still enough high haze that the brilliant quarter phase of Venus visually had the hint of fog around it in the sky, but through the scope it was not too bad. Mars showed some detail, but it could have been much better. Still it was nice seeing it growing so large after having been just a bright red dot. The thing that tells me the season is really changing is Orion climbing back into the early morning sky. Before going back in I took a quick peek at Orion's nebula. That area of the sky must have been a bit better because the Trapezium was very clear, standing out against the background of the Nebula. Just another couple months of our wonderful humidity making the air as thick as soup!😁
  4. Once again, from just a simple soul, there's so much we dont know, or understand! But, we are learning, if we just have enough time!
  5. Very nice! I try to explain to friends how amazing it is to see those 4 moons and the way they travel, almost before your eyes!
  6. I enjoy science, but am no where close to being a scientist, but really enjoy seeing scientific processes happening. Personally I have always wondered why ot was always assumed you had to have the perfect conditions like we have to support life! I look forward to more being done on this discovery. If even microbiological life can exist in the extremes of Venus, image the possibilities!
  7. Amazing image! I'm in a 4 class sky and never see it like that.
  8. I was worried someone happened to check with Galactic Planning and saw they were about to destroy the Earth to put in a roundabout to avoid the black hole in the center of the milkyway!
  9. Not really qualified to recommend a scope, but I will say welcome to one great forum! I'm your neighbor down in Fla near the Bradenton Sarasota area.
  10. Yes that could be what I'm seeing. It's the shadow that is dark and the moon to the left! I'm looking at all these incredible images on my phone.
  11. Incredible!! I have a question. In line with the banding beneath the moon, there is a lighter spot over a dark area. As the planet rotates, it goes from appearing in the surface gases, to being in the atmosphere above it. Any idea what it might be? Comparing it to the size of Jupiter it has to be very large.
  12. Very nice! 👍 I do enjoy viewing the Moon. The varied terrain has so much to offer the astronomer, if they just look.
  13. Incredible! Thanks for the images! I really enjoy seeing things I dont have the equipment or experience to see myself!
  14. Plans, and budget cuts over here, having the chance of changing every 4 years have wasted a lot of money, not just in space exploration. We do need something that can lift a really heavy or large piece of equipment into orbit, and if possible economically. I like looking at the old information that shows the lift capability of the rockets as they first started then got better. The jump from the regular rockets, Atlas and Redstone to the Saturn V was incredible. Then came the Shuttle. Be really nice to call the ISS and tell them next years supplies are on the way! 😁
  15. Very nice capture. I've tried several attempts, going from just a bright wiggling blob at first to an image where you can start to see solar panels with a bright central section. But my attempts were single images snapped with an interval timer as I moved my DOB by hand.
  16. I'm always amazed seeing everyone's sketches!
  17. Excellent images! Congratulations on a splendid capture. I had wondered if there would be some where that got an occultation with this conjunction. Looks like it was Spain!
  18. Very nice image! The conjunction was very nice this morning. Lucky for me, I worked yesterday and had today off. Normally it's just the opposite.
  19. Very nice! A beautiful moon and a jet! What more could you ask for??
  20. This past week we had good skies and Mars was looking very nice. If I'm thinking correctly, with it's rotation period being close to ours, when I go out about the same time, I'm going to see the same area just about every time, with possibly a little change. Am I thinking right with this line of thought?
  21. Amazing image. Those Celestron telescopes and a talented person with the data yields incredible result! 👍👍
  22. Nothing like the other incredible images I've looked at here, but I finally got a single image with my old Canon. Been seeing details, but couldn't get them to show on an image.
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