Backyard Stargazing and Amateur Astronomy in Suffolk, Virginia USA
Friday, January 28, 2011, was the first scheduled BBAA Skywatch of 2011. The weather forecast was calling for cold and partly cloud skies, clearing late and believe it or not, that is what we got. Mary Shannon and I arrived on site just before 5:00 PM and set up our Celestron C8-SGT. Ted arrived shortly [...]
Date: 09/03/2010 Time: 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT Scope: Celestron C8-SGT Mount: Celestron Advance CG5 GOTO Eyepieces: APM 26mm SWA, 16mm Nagler Location: Northwest River Park, Chesapeake, VA Weather: Warm, VERY humid Transparency: 7 Seeing: 6 Alignment Stars: Arcturus, Vega Luck for us Hurricane Earl ended up just brushing by and the rain and [...]
Friday night Sandy and I headed to Northwest River Park in southern Chesapeake for the Back Bay Amateur Astronomers (BBAA) Skywatch and it was a really good time. The sky was nice and dark with a few passing clouds. At times the clouds did get in the way but there was still a lot of [...]
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