Monday, August 17th, 2009
Tonight was my first night with an old Celestron C8* SCT telescope that I recently assembled. The scope is not in very good shape and it took me a little while to adjust to working with it. Thankfully, the motor drive works well so it can track stars. The biggest ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Here are some useful links for this year's CalStar party at San Antonio lake. Have a happy star gazing experience.
http://www.sjaa.net/calstar/
The exact program schedule is on the following link
http://www.sjaa.net/calstar/CalStar2008Program.pdf
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Before writing this post, I had several questions in mind. We are so busy in our lives that sometimes we have no time to even look around us and admire the beauty of our surroundings. How often do we look towards the sky and admire the moon, clouds ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Deep Sky Observing May 2008
A good list for DSO Objects in May 2008
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Eye Candy Observing List
Pretty looking stuff that can been seen in the night sky
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The NGC / IC Project - Home of the Historically Corrected New General Catalogue (HCNGC) since 1993
A complete modern Star Catalogue. A great ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
ObservingSites.com
Great Observing Sites for Star Gazing in North America. Includes a good list of Sites for the bay area. Here is a link to their California Sites page http://www.observingsites.com/ds_ca.htm. Several of these are in the Bay area.
The Astronomy Connection - Montebello Open Space Preserve Observing Site
Good observing site in Palo ...
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