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AWESOME presentation.

Thanks Suresh!

YES. Me to PLEASE!
Thanks, Clayton, for being the organizer.
I will as the current MAS President to make an announcement at the next meeting too.
I made a post over on a Slack channel too linking this post to that post. Let's see how that works.

For those planning I came across this presentation.
Fred does a great job with history but also has many tips and information to help plan. Pretty complete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHrOWej ... redEspenak

RGB_Comet.jpg This is image Dean is referring to from the meeting last night. This comet is nowhere near the brightness social media has made it out to be. As a novice visual observer such as myself, I have problems finding this comet in my backyard. This image was captured from Texas remotely with...

The YouTube link to this presentation is

https://youtu.be/rvbw4F6J3kU

I am excited to finally see the mainstream media show the fact the night sky is disappearing. I hope KARE does a follow up.

I have the PDF.

Just a treat. I missed it.

Mark

I was watching live too.

I was fascinated, I can't even imagine the tension in the room until the response "Touchdown confirmed!" was heard.

I felt that same tension on the landing of the Perseverance rover landing, even though this was not a new thing.

Pretty cool.

Amazing content.

Very cool!

Thanks for sharing Clayton

Fred, My process for polar align is as follows: Setup with the mount on the tripod (the tripod must be level) use a level app on my phone to set the altitude and azimuth as close as I can based on my location in longitude and latitude. Then I use my hand control or my control software to point to th...

That is a good and safe distance to catch a little crescent of Venus. Inferior conjunction at 0916 hrs local time but only 14° altitude. Might have to wait until 1200 hrs. Need to clear the wall of the obsy. I might give it a shot.

The best customer service and delivery is High Point Scientific. The MAS orders nearly all components and equipment from them. They always answer our questions. They are simply there when we need them.

https://www.highpointscientific.com/

Mark

HI Neal,

I see these updates.

We have received the update.

Mark
MAS President

Hi Brandon, Welcome to the Minnesota Astronomical Society. Depending on your location within the metro area, I would not spend another dime, I would request (yes you can make a request) to be trained at CGO to be a key holder and to receive training on the imaging rig. The equipment is top of the li...

I saw some nice beads and prominences on the date and time feed. A guy in Japan and a Lady in Norway. They were OK. They were switching from about 4 or 5 locations including the same NASA feed which was cloudy. I am unsure why we needed to see the clouds. Still not the same as being there.

Very FESTIVE!

FABULOUS!

This is a real easy activity. I did mine tonight from my observatory. I used the Loss of the Night App. I found the app was fairly intuitive, I did not read the tutorial and I completed my observation in about 5 minutes Go out and observe, it was not a perfectly clear night but good enough to accomp...

YEP. Russ Durkee, he moved his rig to Texas.
He and I are sharing an observatory NW of Austin about 90 minutes.

I am just curious if anyone out there is interested in doing a virtual star party. I know there are people who are members of the MAS who do not get out on a regular basis especially during the quarantine. I have equipment and the infrastructure to share. Even if it is just a look at the Moon. I can...

Nice catch.

I wish the subject matter was different.

Mark

Thank you Ron and Dale for pointing us to the website. I think this consumed at least 2 hours of "driving" around on the Moon, it is so easy to forget the scale.

Amazing.

Mark

Thanks Ahmed!

Just listened to the podcast produced by the Planetary Society featuring our own Russ Durkee who is a recent winner of a Eugene Shoemaker Near Earth Object grant for 2019. Congratulations Russ! Here is a link to the podcast: https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/1218-2019-sh...

Thanks for those details.

Mark