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#astro #astronomy Electronically Assisted Astronomy, #astrophotography #lightpollution Guitar and songwriting, Creative Writing, Photography and The Blue Ridge Mountains.
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crescent moon slips below horizon at Elk Mountain
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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We were not very optimistic with regard to the weather. November's DSO night turned out fantastic! We got to see just about every object worth sharing through our many various optics, Jupiter being the exception as it was a little too low at the end of the night. #darkskies
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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ASI462 cam with 8 inch SCT at F10 live planetary stack in Sharpcap
November 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Final program at 221 access for the year! Thank you so much to the park staff for letting us enrich the experiences of the campers from time to time this year. We are looking forward to future events next year and many years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Live stack of Jupiter 8 inch SCT F/10 soft focus in crazy wind conditions
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Wonderful low latitude aurora taken 2 hours ago at The Lump Overlook on 11/11/25. Even better than last years! #Astronomy #astrophotography #publichealth #lightpollution #ashecounty #northcarolina
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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November's Beaver Moon
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Playing around with the Pleiades M45 I have all winter to get it right!
October 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Orion Nebula(M42) back in the sky after midnight coming soon to earlier evening skies near you.
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Occasionally members like to revive their relationship with the night. One way of doing this is through astrophotography, a low impact hobby. You can achieve fascinating images with inexpensive sensors. For instance, the Pleiades was shot using an old dslr. Credit: D. Heflin x 3 C. Dalton x 1.
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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An emerald color of comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) is seen in front of a dense southern milky way backdrop. This comet image was taken by one of our volunteers during the October DSO night. #Boone #appstate #astrophotograpy #astronomy #lightpollution #publichealth
October 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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October night at the DSO was awesome until it clouded over. The volunteers and students had fun gathering a few images before the show. Photo credit for the milkyway and hand heart shots to the young ladies that took them. #Boone #appstate #astrophotography #astronomy #lightpollution #publichealth
October 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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First view of season Orion Nebula low on horizon after midnight
October 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Ha! My EEA stack of 30 second exposures reminded me of my screensaver a couple of decades back
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Live streaming Andromeda at 240mm
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Screen sharing the moon asi462 cam and 242mm
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
October 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Yesterday's solar outreach
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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We had such a great evening celebrating NASA's Observe the Moon Night at Rendezvous Mountain State Park! Thank you to all those who helped set it up including Ranger Matheson and Mr. Shepherd. We hope to do it again soon! #astronomy #publichealth #lightpollution #ashecounty #wilkescounty
October 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
October 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM