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Messier Marathon – Spring 2009

I’ve been an astronomer for something like 3 years now. I honestly can’t remember when I started, except that it was a February. Soon after I started the talk on my club’s email list (yes, I joined a club immediatly, you should too, really, you should.) was of something called a Messier Marathon. Now I [...]

Here’s your Filter Gardner

No Boxes tonight, or, a dark site with the binoculars

Steve and Rags cajoled me into heading over to New Boston to have one lest viewing session with them before the move. I knew I shouldn’t, I was way too tired and the boxes were calling my name. But, I did anyway. I really wanted to get a dark site view of the recent M-objects [...]