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Hi Terry. Well, you did a great job in catching asteroid 532 Herculina, and NGC 2362, as well as the double stars, which were icing on the cake in...

HI JG. I have seen the "Pup" in my XLT150R refractor telescope too. The little doggy is hard to see, but visible if you take your time. Thanks for...

NASA needs to take note and get serious. I've disliked the mission concept as extremely risky for as long as it's been in the works. I don't see a...

Hi Dave. A very nice report on the comet and M42 and M51 from you. You just can't sell that 120St telescope short for what it brings to us. Thanks...

We've discussed this a time or two, but it's counterintuitive. It's a factoid that has stuck with me due to having had to work a homework exercise on...

It looks like congress isn't happy with NASA failures and cost overruns on the JWST. They are threatening to cancel it it goes over budget again. But...

Youth and vigor are no matches for experience and treachery. :D

Hi Susan. I am glad that you and Leland are enjoying your stay down there. And, I hope that we can all get together this coming April.

There is no software equivalent of hardware binning. If it just adds the groups of 4 pixels together, it's nothing more than cranking up the gain...

Huh. This I have failed to realize until now. Ain't that something? :lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole#Description ...

Hi SB. Thanks for your excellent report on the double cluster. If we don't have rain here, the humidity is so high that we have dew on everything...

Hi John. Congratulations on bagging Comet Iwamoto. This is a tough target, but you did well with the 14 mm Baader eyepiece. Thanks for your excellent...

Hey, I can still hang with the best of them. Well....at least till I need a nap...or my back starts to hurt...or.... :lol:

Hi Joan, Welcome to AF Joe

Just think of it as "precipitating for the cure". :)

Hi Robert and welcome to the forums. Joe

I do not think evolution cares one way or another for "us", Goldstar. Evolution is not an intelligence. The funny thing is, we are it. ...

Wow! Thanks for some great eye candy, Steve.

Nice Terry, thanks for sharing and keeping hope alive. BTW what is that green stuff in the background next to the house. And your whole...

Hi Joan. I am sorry to read about your old telescope being in disarray. Hopefully the powers that rule our wallets will allow you to purchase a newer...

Paul, Thanks for your post. I can see your point that read in isolation as it appears in your last post the statement may appear too general and...

Additive binning does what it says, nothing more than adding the values of the binned pixels. For CMOS, it's the soft equivalent of CCD binning (with...

Hi and welcome to the forum Robert. :welcomesign:

Hi and welcome to the forum. :welcomesign:

Well Crud, I'm short a bunch of Ep's :yikes::cry1: ...:whistling: Still no green ones either. I'm hoping we get fixed soon & we get to read that...

I don't think we've had more than about 8"-10" of snow all year long... Ice, ice is another totally different thing. We've been solidly coated in...

Right now she's reporting on an Antarctica solar eclipse trip.

Hi WolfSpirit42. Your exuberance comes along with your introduction, and I can understand it. You already have some great background, so you have...

Maksutov Cassegrain telescopes are also suitable for DSO astrophotography with a focal reducer.