Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]