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This was in the April PAStimes, but as the print was small and there were no paragraph breaks I am printing it here. Deep South Spring Scrimmage – 2021 The Spring Scrimmage this year will run for a total of 5 nights from Tuesday, May 4th to Sunday, May 9th. As we had requests for a longer run and as...

So What is a Star Party? Like any other party a star party is the gathering of people for the purpose of having a good time. Specifically though a star party is geared toward having that good time under the stars and during the daytime having that good time under one particular star, our Sun. Star p...

Fantastic photo Bruce! Really, really great!

Barry Simon

The Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers are starting to do public outreach astronomy programs again.

This is how they do it - https://dvaa.org/content.aspx?page_id=4 ... id=1378034

Something for us to consider.

Barry Simon

Here are a few images from Friday night in Tourmaline Park. No planets or Moon to observe but several other interesting objects were up in an improving sky and the temperature was pleasant. Objects that were seen included some open clusters, the Orion Nebula, and other close Orion objects as well as...

2001 FO32

What is about 1 mile across, is traveling at better than 75,000 miles per hour and will pass about 1.25 million miles from Earth?

Check it out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(231937)_2001_FO32

Sign up forms for the upcoming Deep South Spring Scrimmage are available on the Deep South Message Board @ https://dssg.boards.net/ They can be found in the board for the Spring Scrimmage. This year's dates run from Tuesday May 4th to Sunday May 9th. An additional day was added on the front end beca...

I talked about this briefly last night during the PAS Zoom meeting. Here is an overview of what we may be able to do - Tentatively the Spring Scrimmage is penciled in for Wednesday, May 5th to Sunday, May 9th. That date could change, more below. The Spring Scrimmage is informal - no registration fee...

My photos tonight are similar to those that Lowell posted. Taken with an Orion ED 100 f/9 using a Canon 60D. The second photo was at prime focus (fl 900) with this one showing Jupiter's moons. The first photo was with the same scope but with a TeleVue 4x Powermate, effectively giving the scope a foc...