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Thank you Mike, sounds like an interesting addition to the armchair library!

Rebekah

Stellafane Open House / "Up-All-Night" Star Party: The Springfield Telescope Makers will be hosting their 27th annual fall free-to-attend star party in October: Friday and Saturday October 13-14 Solar viewing with the Cook spectrohelioscope starting at 3:00 PM until sunset Historic site to...

Our Rhode Island "sister" astronomy club, Skyscrapers, asked me to pass along their invitation to local amateur astronomers to their annual Astro Assembly, to be held on Sept 28 and 29 this year. They will have a number of speakers, contests, swap tables, etc. More information and registra...

The NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Solar System Ambassadors Program (SSA) invites you to apply to become an ambassador to the public for calendar year 2019. Highly motivated individuals will be given the opportunity to represent NASA and JPL as volunteer Solar System Ambassadors for a one-year...

21P will be at its closest in 72 years, Sept 10 is closest approach, and reportedly at mag 6.5 to 7 (visible in binos). This article provides a variety of star charts for where to look: http://earthsky.org/space/2-comets-21p-giacobini-zinner-wirtanen-2018 (It also mentions Comet Wirtanen, which will...

Sharing a really excellent photo that shows the Earth to scale with a coronal mass ejection:

https://petapixel.com/2018/08/14/this-p ... for-scale/

Enjoy! RB

A possibly useful "how to" on getting that perfect ISS transit pic....

https://petapixel.com/2018/07/31/how-to ... c2fcee33ae

https://petapixel.com/2018/07/27/how-my-photos-went-from-reddit-to-the-walls-of-nasa/ Cool story - photographer and print maker came up with a clever set of hexagon shaped canvas panels of a Milky Way photo in honor of the James Webb telescope -- and NASA asked for a copy to hang at Mission Central!

A monthly roundup of what's happening at local astronomy clubs & observatories in southeastern MA and RI. Make sure to check the relevant website or other contact info for directions and updates, particularly for weather-dependent events, before heading out! Clubs: Public Events Astronomical Soc...

A monthly roundup of what's happening at local astronomy clubs & observatories in southeastern MA and RI. Make sure to check the relevant website or other contact info for directions and updates, particularly for weather-dependent events, before heading out! Clubs: Public Events Astronomical Soc...