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Issue 630: Curing Charity Redux + Chalk Up Another Space Summer
How’s one of my favorite telescopes of all time,Charity Hope Valentine, my ETX125 PE Maksutov Cassegrain,doing? Muchachos, the reason you haven’t heard much about her in long while is because the...
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Issue 629: A Special Anniversary + Uncle Rod’s Yearly M13 + The Messier...
Before we get to the subject(s) of this month’s blog, muchachos, I want to acknowledge an anniversary: This month marks twenty years—yes, twenty—of Uncle Rod’s AstroBlog. In that long-ago summer of...
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Issue 618: The Parade’s Gone by Redux
Here we are, muchachos, we have walked through that door into summer. What does that mean for your aged correspondent at Chaos Manor South? Rain, rain, and more rain. Thunderstorms. The possibility of...
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Issue 617: The Messier Project Runs with the Hunting Dogs
Well, muchachos, down the Messier Road we go. Again. I’ll have some different articles for you in the coming months so the Messiers don’t get old (could they, really?), but tonight we are in for some...
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Issue 626: In the Bear’s Den with M101, M81, M82, M97, and M108
Little Debbie's new light shroud/dew shield has made a big difference!As I have often said, “In spring, a young (or not so young) astronomer’s mind turns to thoughts of galaxies.” It’s difficult...
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Issue 625: Uncle Rod Hangs a Left Off the Messier Road...
What? No Messier Project this time?! Well, muchachos, who wants “the same” every month? Month after month? I thought we’d take a semi-break for this installment and talk about a book that’s not only...
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Issue 624: The Messier Project Night 5: Orion and Taurus
Muchachos, this will be a short one. Those of you who are Facebook friends of mine already know my wife, the dear Miss Dorothy, fell and broke a hip. I am grateful to those of you who asked after her...
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Issue 623: The Messier Project 4 and a Chaos Manor South Merry Christmas
Christmas Eve has once again come to Chaos Manor South. It snuck upon your aged correspondent. Wasn’t it just yesterday that Unk celebrated his summertime birthday with a POTA activation and margaritas...
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Issue 622: The Messier Project Night 3 at the Deep South Star Gaze, “The...
Thomas Wolfe said, among many other things, “You can’t go home again.” Is that true? Mostly, muchachos, but not always and not completely. If you’re a long-time reader of the Little Old Blog from...
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Issue 621: The Messier Project 2... M15, M31, M32, M110, and M33.
Before we hit the leading edge of the autumn Messiers, muchachos, let’s get one thing out of the way: Yes, I did see comet Lemon (c/2025 A6). I didn’t observe the visitor in any kind of elaborate...
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Issue #620: Once More Unto the Breach… The Messier Project Night 1
What’s ol' Unk goin’ on about now?I was thinking the other day—yes, I do that occasionally—about a nice observing project to do (mostly) from my backyard, and figgered it might be a good idea if it...
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Issue #619: Space Summer Redux + Uncle Rod’s Yearly M13 Part II
Muchachos, down here on the borders of the Great Possum Swamp it sure has been that proverbiallong, hot summer. I’ve been able to do some astronomy here and there, but not much, campers, not much. I...
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Issue 618: My Yearly M13 for 2025
“Well, I made it and made it before July ran out. Just barely, but I did!”“Hell, sounds like Unk’s been hittin’ the dang Yell again.”Not at all, Skeeter. Well, maybe I have had a drop or two of the...
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Issue #617: Scopes for Boomers
I’ll fess up right from the get- go, muchachos... No, I didn’t get a telescope into the backyard this month. I am old and lazy and, frankly, there weren’t many even partially clear nights in June. This...
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Issue 616: Return of the Losmandy Redux-Redux
What’s been going on here at good old Chaos Manor South out on the borders of the Great Possum Swamp? Well,...
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Issue #615: Goodnight Meade, Goodnight Orion…
Near-about a year down the line, this is something I haven’t had much to say about, muchachos. Quite a few of y’all have asked my opinion on it, though. Why haven’t I dished on this earth-shattering...
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Issue #614: Uncle Rod, Armchair Astronomer?!
I know, Muchachos, I know, thisun was ostensibly going to be about me getting my 6-inch refractor, Big Ethel, and my Losmandy GEM into the backyard. My intentions were good, but between stormy...
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Issue 613: How about a Challenge?
Project Burnham, wherein I plan to visit all the deep sky objects highlighted by Robert Burnham in his famous handbook, will continue, muchachos. But I thought you might like something new; that you...
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Issue 612: Where are the Smartscopes?
M3 with Intelligent Denoise and cropping...I don’t mean “where” as in “location.” I know where they are, they are in the backyards of a lot of imagers old and new. No, muchachos, I’m a-talking about...
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Issue 611: Yet Another Christmas Eve at Chaos Manor South
Last season's SeeStar shot...Muchachos, your old Uncle had been keeping a weather eye peeled—literally. The forecasts for Christmas Eve had been gyrating wildly: “clear” to “partly cloudy” to “mostly...
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