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April 24
A day after full Moon, I thought the early evening sky was suitable for a picture
of Boötes and Corona Borealis that could serve as a finder chart for novice
sky gazers to locate T Corona Borealis.
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April 23
This shot of the Sun was acquired on the morning of Tuesday, April 23. This
is about the most number of sunspots that I've seen; unfortunately, they're all
rather small, so you don't get the impact of a giant spot.
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April 22
Moon will be full tomorrow evening, so we were about 23 1/2 hours prior to full
Moon at the time of this image.
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April 13
Periodic Comet
12P/Pons-Brooks is still somewhat prominent in the evening sky, on this date
and the previous evening being situated just below Jupiter and Uranus. It
still doesn't show much with my 5 or 6 second images, so these are more just for
the record as opposed to an attempt to show the comet in some detail.
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April 8
Click on the first thumbnail to see an animated version of the eclipse sequence shown below;
the second thumbnail of the uneclipsed Sun shows a series of close-up views through my old
Nikon D40 with a 1,000 mm C-90 Maksutov-Cassegrain. My eclipse trip to New York
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April 8
The long-awaited total solar eclipse of 2024 finally arrived and to most people's
pleasant surprise, conditions were clear enough along the path that folks from
Texas to New York were able to see totality. This shot captures the sequence
we saw from a location near Plattsburgh, NY, where we enjoyed 3 minutes 32 seconds
of totality. The diamond ring shot was a few seconds late, unfortunately.
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April 4
Periodic Comet
12P/Pons-Brooks is making its once every 71 year passage through
the inner solar system, offering us a moderately good apparition in the evening
sky even though its orbital circumstances with respect to the Earth are not great
this time. Here we see the comet in the early evening traversing the
constellation Aries. Apparently, the comet underwent an outburst
in the last day or two that has brightened it to about magnitude 3.8.
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