Upcoming Events: Week of Feb 25 – Mar 1

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All Week: Observing Opportunities

Feb 26: E-Board Meeting via Zoom

Feb 28: NSN Webinar Series: Astromycology in Space Exploration

Feb 28: DAS MakerSIG Meeting Link for Members

Mar 01: Zoom Event: Experiencing Totality – The Great Eclipse of 2024 Presented by the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society

 

* The attached image is from Sky & Telescope Magazine’s Observing section

For the Record

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By Daniel Acker

I’m not sure if this is a little “old school” or not but, I have kept observation logs since the early 1980’s and I’ll look back through them from time to time and recall some interesting things that happened while observing on a particular night or compare how improved my observing skills have become or even how improved telescopes have become since those early days as a backyard astronomer.… Continue reading.

May 2019 Skies

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by Zachary Singer

Along with the planets this month, we’ve got two targets in the constellation Canes Venatici—one is a sun-like star, and the other a bright spiral galaxy. Let’s get going…

The Solar System

Mercury starts May as a morning object, technically speaking—it’s very low on the horizon before dawn, and moving closer to the Sun daily.… Continue reading.

April 2019 Skies

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by Zachary Singer

For April, we’re looking at a beautiful binary in Leo, and some galaxies in a tight grouping—but perhaps not the one you’re guessing! First, though, we have the planets….

The Solar System

Technically, Mercury will be up before the Sun in early April, but even at greatest elongation on the 11th (when the planet appears farthest from the Sun on this orbit), it will remain very low over the horizon, less than half an hour before sunrise.… Continue reading.

March 2019 Skies

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© Zachary Singer

In March, we have a relatively quiet month for planets: Most of them are now early-morning objects, but they are at a greater angle from the Sun, allowing better observing. In the “Stars and Deep Sky” section, we’ll look at two stars in the constellation Cancer—the first is a wonderful binary, and the other, a lesser-known carbon star.… Continue reading.