Hi all! The Eastern Iowa Star Party is alive and well, but of course in post-COVID recovery mode! This year’s event will be held on the night’s of Sept 23, 24, and 25…. Mark your calendars! What recovery mode means is that we wont have raffles or guest speakers this year, but weather permitting, 3 […]
Hi all, As brought up by Paul… thank you Paul! we will be canceling our regularly scheduled March meeting which would have been held this Monday, the 16th. I’m hoping that Paul and Rusty can do their presentations at the April meeting and Ron can do his in May. For our Jens-Wendt open on Saturday… […]
As the Sun rises on Veteran’s Day the planet Mercury will be making it’s way directly between our star and ourselves. The result is that the itsy bitsy silhouette of the fastest planet will be visible on the disc of the Sun. As always with any astronomical event that involves looking directly at the Sun, […]
Dern weather! This afternoons Founders Day Solar Event will be cancelled… …3rd year in a row!
All ready for the 15 Calamus Library students to show up at 10AM….
Not looking to good for the Founders Day Solar Event on Friday… 3rd year in a row… go figure….
Another great night out at the Menke. This time, of course it was an open house so we probably had a dozen to two dozen guests come through. We saw a lot of great objects, the normal ones of course, but everybody got to see the moon, some planets, some galaxies, some star clusters, some […]
What a beautiful night it was tonight! Rolando, Sam, and I had a lot of fun working with Rolando’s 127mm f7.5 and Sam’s 90mm f5.5 refractors. We saw a lot of objects including the obvious ones such as Saturn, Jupiter, the Moon, and favorites like M51, the Owl Cluster, Albireo, the Ring Nebula, and the […]
For me EAA is the way to go. Simple plug and play design of the R2 system takes video astronomy to a whole new level of fun. The detail may not resemble time exposure astrophotography but far exceeds the detail of the naked eye. Got to give credit to the individual who had the brilliant […]
Hi all! I am working on the 3 guest speakers for our Sept 27-29 Eastern Iowa Star Party…. One works with the data collected on stars that Kepler, K2, and TESS observe(d) – using stellar oscillations (and in some case, rotation) to characterize the stars and tell us more about the history of their planetary […]