This Wednesday, August 26, John Raymond will be hosting a skywatch for Bryan Park on the park’s soccer field. Viewing starts at 8:00 PM. If you can bring a telescope, please do. It should be a lot of fun. All are welcome.
Events
Mini Star Party – August 14
Clouds threatened to restrict our viewing at the August 14 mini star party at the scout camp in Goochland, but periods of clear skies prevailed, allowing us several hours of good viewing in stable skies. Dave Walton, Tim Streagle and I deployed scopes at various time during the evening and were treated to some nice views of seasonal objects.
Tonight’s meeting topic
Tonight Ken and Betty Wilson will give a talk on the Great China Eclipse of 2009. This eclipse is a member of Saros 136; a Saros is a period of 18 years 10 1/3 days in which eclipses repeat. The previous eclipse of this Saros was on 1991 July 11, and I was in Mexico … Read more
Here come the Perseids for 2009!
The Perseid Meteor Shower starts Aug. 11 (the night of our next RAS meeting).
Skywatch report, Brandermill
Everything cooperated last night (Aug. 3)–the skies, the weather, and the crowd.
Skywatch report–James River State Park
This took place Saturday night, July 25. The park is near Gladstone, VA, so it’s quite a hike from Richmond. 85 miles, in fact.
Stargazing at Radford
I was at Radford, Virginia at SUUSI on 2009 July 23. One of the things I did at SUUSI was “Stargazing”, where we went to a site near Mountain Lake.
ISS pass tonight (July 28), 8:40 pm
ISS pass tonight, 8:40 pm (July 28),. -2.5 magnitude, 46 degrees high, traveling from NW to SE.
ISS pass tonight, 9:02 pm (July 25)
-2.4 magnitude, 40 degrees high, traveling from the NW to the NE. The crescent moon will also be near Saturn tonight.
Ladies and Gentlemen, start your webcams!
If you haven’t heard, something has hit Jupiter and left a dark spot in the upper cloud layers of the planet. The impact apparently occurred several days ago and the resulting spot is reportedly still visible through moderate size telescopes and would make a great webcam target for the imagers in our group. More information … Read more