Rod Potter
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Rod Potter
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Well that's pretty cool!
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Nice! A few of us York Simcoe Amateur Astronomers were imaging and observing at the north end of Keswick tonight, also. The Aurora stole the show for sure!
September 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
LOL, I know the processing is a bit over-baked. I should have described it as "eye candy" in the sky.
September 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I bet M31 spiralled outa control when it heard that one. 💫😆
August 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Canadians can very quickly mobilize to keep billions in Canada by cancelling US streaming and other online services. I started by pausing my YouTube music subscription. Next up: Netflix, Prime, etc.
August 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I'm looking at all of the U.S. services i currently pay for and could do without (or replace). There are quite a few. Canadians could remove 40 or 50 billion/year spent on streaming, software and other services without missing much. If we're heading into a recession that will happen in any case.
August 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Not sure. I recently read that some stars in globular get reinvigorated after pulling material from nearby stars. Old stars with new fuel. Apparently these have been detected in M3, though maybe not something we can easily image with small scopes?
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993AJ.....
Blue Stragglers in the Galactic Globular Cluster M3: Evidence for two Populations
A new VI-CCD survey of the central regions of the Galactic globular cluster M3 has been made in order to search for Blue Straggler Stars (BSS). About 9000 stars within r less than 250 sec from the cen...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
May 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Congratulations on the 1.4 beta release! So far it's an absolute pleasure to use and feels very solid. I've only scratched the surface of the new features, but wow! Thank you thank you thank you!
April 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
That is some really nice work! Curious to know what scope you use the MiniCam8 with?
April 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM