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Happy Birthday Alan!

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by Graeme1858 » Thu May 09, 2024 12:45 pm

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Happy Birthday Alan kt4hx

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Happy Birthday, Alan...and best wishes for clear, dark skies!!

Dave

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Happy Birthday StarBru

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by TSS TEAM » Wed May 08, 2024 4:24 pm

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Happy Birthday StarBru

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Happy Birthday and best wishes for a great day!!

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How to make your own solar filter holder

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by OzEclipse » Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:26 am

Making a Solar Filter holder for your Telescope

It's very easy to make a filter holder perfectly suited to total solar eclipse observation. A...

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More advanced eclipse photography

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If you want to have a go at capturing more complex solar eclipse imagery, this article covers aspects of capturing high dynamic range imagery and...

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Eclipse Photography for Beginners

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Eclipse Photography for Beginners
By Joe Cali
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Warnings:
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POPULAR AND FUN OFF TOPIC THREADS

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Clean, fun jokes... the tradition continues

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What have you been up to lately?

Quote of the day,...

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Welcome to the Articles and Reviews forum! (PLEASE READ)

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by Gordon » Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:24 pm

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TSS now has an area for members to post Articles and Reviews.

NOTE: DO NOT POST REVIEW or ARTICLES in this forum section!

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We have had a few instances of new topics being created in the Articles and Reviews forum without prior approval by the TSS team. Those topics have...

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As a helpful reminder, we have several different board styles which are selectable in the Board Preferences tab in your user control panel. Some of...

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Beginner's Forum Must Reads!

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The links below contain threads that are considered 'stickies'.
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We are the 'new kids on the block' and hope you will find your astronomy home here! We think you will find an extremely knowledgeable and friendly...

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Nuclear Fusion Reactor Record

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by Graeme1858 » Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:40 pm

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Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds

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And here's another fusion-energy run-duration-related story:

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Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his...
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Happy Birthday Arsene37

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Happy Birthday Arsene37

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Happy Birthday Arsene :)

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Clean, fun jokes... the tradition continues

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. — Hunter S. Thompson

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#1 I had to have explained to me, #2 look very close :)

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As an older guy, I think the first one is funny (but sad, too)...
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Observe Planets on a sunny day with a Telescope?

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by Flyhigh7 » Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:40 pm

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I have a 9.25 Celestron Telescope and I'm wondering if it is possible to see the planets on a clear bright sunny day if the planets are not close to...

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I've observed Venus in full daylight, but it was with a 16-inch Ritchey–Chrétien. Never tried with a small scope.

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The Music Thread 2024

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We are 5 days into the new year and hopefully everyone is well.
Here is something written and sung by the late great George Harrison

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It's Prog O'Clock!

Here's ELP doing Tchaikovsky
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Happy Birthday Gmetric

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by TSS TEAM » Sun May 05, 2024 11:50 pm

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Happy Birthday Arry Gmetric

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Best wishes!!

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The Great Photography Thread - REVIVED!

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Hello from Oklahoma

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by japacheze » Fri May 03, 2024 9:20 am

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Hello everyone. Enjoy observing all types of objects. Live south of Univ of Oklahoma in Bortle 5 skies.
Former pilot and teacher. Now principal...

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Hello and welcome to TSS. Glad you joined us.

Cheers,

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Happy Birthday Dromin

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by TSS TEAM » Sat May 04, 2024 11:40 am

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Happy Birthday Dromin

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Happy Birthday and best wishes for a great day!

Dave

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What have you been up to lately?

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Went to work Wednesday afternoon (I work a 3pm-midnight shift normally.) and felt fine when I got there. By the end of my shift I was feeling a...

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Inventorying my camping gear for a trip to a new dark(er) site next week. :grin:

May the clouds and rain stay well away!

Same as that. Been...
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Happy Birthday avid.astronomer!

Last post by Ylem « Fri May 03, 2024 2:49 am
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by TSS TEAM » Thu May 02, 2024 1:32 pm

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Happy Birthday avid.astronomer

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Happy Birthday Tom!

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Orangutan using medicinal plants

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by Chich » Thu May 02, 2024 4:58 pm

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That pedestal we created for ourselves is getting smaller and smaller. We are the only animal to use tools! Oh, what are those chimps and crows...

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I read an article this morning about this. It's pretty interesting.

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Hello from North West England

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by TerryMcK » Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:21 am
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Just a quick message to say I have just joined. I'm based in the north west of England under Bortle 7 skies. However with us being surrounded...

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Welcome to the TSS forum Terry. I'm looking forward to seeing your rig on that TuffTruk and some of your images.
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Thu May 02, 2024 4:06 pm
Slippage at focuser.

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by Gordon » Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:14 pm

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Okay,
I'm going to be a newbee with this question and hopefully someone has an answer.

I'm having a problem with the following equipment.
1. Quark...

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Surely if the brass compression ring overlaps, it was also cause tilt, that’s even if you can get an eyepiece in there with the overlap, I have never...

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