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Issue 591: The Moon and You Volume 2, “I Miss the Moon”
And I do, muchachos, I do.“But Unk, the Moon is shining bright over Possum Swamp right now, just as she always has.” Well, yeah, but that don’t mean I’ve paid requisite attention to her. During the...
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Issue 592: “A New Way to Autostar” or “Sweet Charity Combs the Tresses of...
Well, muchachos, as is frequently the case of late, this is not what I intended this installment of the Li’l Ol’ AstroBlog from Possum Swamp to be about. What I had in mind was—never mind; I’ll...
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Issue 593: The Astronomer Looks at 70
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call,Wanted to sail upon your waterssince I was three feet tall.You've seen it all, you've seen it all. I have been drunk now for over two weeks,I passed out and...
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Issue #595: Telescopes I Have Known
Well, Doggonit, Muchachos. I very much wanted to finish up my review of the Digital Optica Bluetooth Adapter for Autostar. I intended to, as a matter of fact. I even set Charity Hope Valentine’s (for...
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Issue 595: A New Way to Autostar Part II
Well, muchachos, don’t ever say your old Uncle doesn’t love you. It was hot—90F well after sunset—it was humid. There was a bad something brewing out in the Gulf. Nevertheless, I did not shy from the...
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Issue 596: My Favorite Star Parties
Miss Dorothy and Friend, 1994...This one was intended to recount my efforts taking my traditional yearly astrophoto of the Great Globular, M13 in Hercules, y’all. That didn’t happen. It wasn’t weather...
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Issue 597: The Big Eclipse
Well, in a small way, muchachos. Not that it wasn’t a fairly big deal, but it hadn’t assumed much prominence in my reckonings in the days before the event. Saturday morning’s annular eclipse had been...
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Issue 598: When is a Star Party Not a Star Party? Redux…
The answer is still the same as it was many a year ago, muchachos: “Never!” I almost always have a great time at an astronomy event, even when I don’t see much—or anything at all. It’s nice to hang...
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Issue 599: A Chaos Manor South Merry Christmas 2023
“What in the hail are you goin’ on about now, Unk? Ever’body knows you and Miss Dorothy decamped from the Old Manse to the suburbs almost a decade ago!” Yes and no, Skeeter, yes and no.” I have come...
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Issue 600: Smartscope Revolution?
ZWO SeeStar S50Issue 600, muchachos?! If somebody had told me 18 years ago that the Little Old AstroBlog from Chaos Manor South would still be around and going strong in 2024, I’d have laughed....
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Issue 601: A ZWO SeeStar Comes to Chaos Manor South
Wow, just wow, muchachos… Now, admittedly I’ve turned into something of an astronomical Luddite who is easily impressed by modern technology. Hell, I’d still be using NexRemote if they’d update it to...
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Issue 602: SeeStar in the Lion’s Den
NGC 2903“A whosit in a whatsit?! Unk, did you break out yet another bottle o’ the Rebel Yell?!” Not at all, muchachos, not at all. Well, maybe I did, but that title up above is no whiskey-soaked...
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Issue 603: My Eclipse...
Eclipse morning at Chaos Manor South.The eclipse it came, and the eclipse it went, muchachos. This is your Old Uncle's short account of what Miss Dorothy and I saw eclipse Monday. This was, by the way,...
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Issue 604: Unk’s Yearly M13, The Quest for Simple but Good
Suzie's M13Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime! You know it is here, Muchachos. No, not officially; the Solstice ain’t arrived just yet. BUT… Memorial Day is in the rearview mirror and M13,...
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Issue 605: What Do I Use Now?
Muchachos, I make no secret of the fact I miss the go-go days of Baby Boomer astronomy. Which was at its height from the 1980s through the oughts or a little past that, maybe almost to the time of the...
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Issue 606: Space Summer Comes Again + Combing the Tresses of Berenice with...
Chalk up another one, muchachos. Another orbit of our friendly G2V star by your aged Uncle. That makes 71. A few years ago, I wouldn’t have told you that. Like many of my fellow Boomers, I’ve...
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Issue 607: Star Nests in Cygnus
I had just finished last month’s AstroBlog, muchachos, when I was moved to begin the next one. The way the weather’s been this summer, and the knowledge it will likely get worse as September and...
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Issue 608: Project BCH Lives
What’s up this month, muchachos? What’s goin’ down at Chaos Manor South? Well, I thought I’d get out and “do” one of the late-summer chapters from The Urban Astronomer’s Guide, maybe one of my...
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Issue #609: HOP, HOP, Astro-Hop!
Well, well, well, muchachos… November is almost here, and it looks as if we in Possum Swamp may have dodged a bullet hurricane-wise this season. The skies had been improving since the thunderstorms of...
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Issue #610: Ch-ch-ch-changes!
We preempt your regularly scheduled program… Originally, thisun was gonna be about me, your Old Uncle, turning my SeeStar S50, Suzie, and 10-inch Dob, Zelda, loose on the fall globulars chapter in UAG...
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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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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 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 #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 #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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