An amateur astronomy club
At the October 9 meeting, the club discussed the ongoing renovations to the 16″ Newtonian in the dome of Brower Observatory, adopted preserving the dark skies of Maine as a major area of outreach, voted to join the Astronomical League, accepted a professional Web master’s help in creating a Facebook page for the club, and thanked outgoing President Pete Kalajian for his years of service.
Here’s my latest image of M31. All the frames were exposed remotely from my kitchen at an observatory in New Mexico.
Comet 103p/ Hartley, better known in the popular press as Hartley 2, is now screaming toward the sun and visible in binoculars near the constellation Cygnus. I took advantage of the clear sky on Saturday night to image the comet. Here’s what I came up with. Hartley 2 is interesting because there is a spacecraft … Read more