Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

Introduction
I heard about the NexStar 50 Club years ago when I first found Mike Swanson’s excellent NexStar site and them promptly forgot about it. About a week ago he annouced 2 new members and I had the germ of an idea. I’ve always like the Messier Marathon idea, and if the skies are ever clear [...]

I just got inside from a brief observation of Lulin with my Canon 15×50IS binoculars. I last looked at it on the 7th, 11 days ago. It has significantly changed size, it is much larger now. It has also move quite a distance. It was near Zubenelgenubi in Libra then, now it has gone past [...]

Ok, I’m not really giving up astronomy, but I was packing today for my 28 hour hour drive to Florida for the Winter Star Party. This will be my first real star party, real as defined by camping at the site, and I’m quite excited. But I was a bit taken aback by all the [...]

It had been more than a month since I was able to view Comet C/2007 N3 Lulin and I was anxious to see it again, to see how it had brightened, how it had moved across the sky. I knew it was moving faster now, the chart in Sky and Telescope clearly shows that:

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