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Issue #571: Merry Christmas 2020 from Uncle Rod and the AstroBlog…
Well, I did manage to sneak in another issue before this cursed year was history, muchachos. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to do that or not, though. It’s been cloudy more often than it’s...
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Issue 572: Happy New Year’s 2021 from the AstroBlog
While things don’t exactly look good now (to say the least), I hope we can expect something better than another whole year of “I’VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS!” Anyhow, this is the traditional...
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Issue 573: Charity Hope Valentine Rides Again!
"No blog for February? Why, Unk, why?” I could say, “Well, muchachos, the weather was lousy most of the month, with clouds almost invariably in the sky when the Moon was absent. And it was cold. I...
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Issue 574: A Short One…
Plenty of clouds down Chiefland way...I haven’t been able to keep the blog on a monthly basis.Heck, I haven’t been able to keep it on a bimonthly schedule. When I can’t/won’t get out with a scope...
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Issue 575: My Favorite Star Parties, Deep South Regional Star Gaze 2000
M15, star of Unk's DSRSG 2000 (Edge 800 on Advanced VX mount)...Well, muchachos, I tried. Yes, I was anxious to get my Celestron Advanced VX telescope mount under the stars to see if she was really...
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Issue 576: In Memory Yet Green: The Herschel Project
Where it all began...Another hurricane, Hurricane Ida, has come into the Gulf to trouble your silly old Uncle, muchachos. But it hasn’t just been that. Nothing has changed since July regarding the...
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Issue 577: Unks’s Advanced VX Rides Again
Yeah, I know, no blog entries for September and October and we’ve barely squeaked in for November. I hate to disappoint my readers, but there just wasn’t no way, muchachos. The weather was nasty all...
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Issue 578: A Possum Swamp Christmas Eve 2022 ...
All I can say is “Merry Christmas, muchachos.” I know I’ve been remiss about getting new blog issues to you over the last couple of years. That did improve some this year, though, and I will see to it...
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Issue 579: Welcome to 2022 aka “What Could Happen?”
2022? I hope things will, barring an alien invasion, the zombie apocalypse, or an asteroid strike (and I don’t discount anypossibilities anymore), be getting back to normal. Course, that’s what I...
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Issue 580: Urban Astronomer Night 1, Burning Heart of the Hunting Dogs
Yeah, you don’t have to tell me the ol’ AstroBlog missed another few months. I was all fired up to get back on a regular schedule in February, but... That obviously didn’t happen, and we missed...
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Issue 581: The Thirty-Seven-Year-Old Telescope Redux
I could have called this one “The Fifty-Year-Old Telescope” or maybe “SHE LIVES!” Perhaps even “Sometimes You Haven’t Moved on After All.” What in tarnation is Uncle Rod goin’ on about now? Has...
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Issue 582: Space Summer Redux, Redux
The years just seem to fly by of late, muchachos. I simply cannot believe this little epistleon my wonderful space summer is from 10 fricking years ago! You’ve heard oldsters remark how the days speed...
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Covid Ain’t Nuthin' to Mess With
Muchachos, this is going to be a short one without much to say about our shared passion. I didn’t want to let August go by without a blog post, but most assuredly didn’t feel like getting out and...
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Issue 584: Return to The Trio of Fall Globulars
It’s been hot and stormy down here on the borders of the Great Possum Swamp, muchachos.Real hot all summer long, and realstormy, as in nearly daily thunderstorms. Now, though, September is dying and...
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Issue 585: My Yearly M13, the 2022 Edition
Well, muchachos, ’21 turned out to be a stinker of a year; not much better than that cursed annum, 2020. I sure was hoping 2022would be different. I even dared hope the world, or at least Unk’s world,...
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Issue 586: The Moon and You Volume 1
I’ve remarked here a couple of times how fast the days, weeks, months, and years seem to fly by at your Old Uncle’s increasingly advanced age. However, you could have knocked me over with the...
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An Uncle Rod Merry Christmas 2022
Well, muchachos, another Christmas Eve is upon us, and as usual I choose to spend it with y’all. Well, part of it, anyhow. In the wake of the covid, this was a more normal Yule's Eve for me and Miss...
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Issue 588: Uncle Rod and the Rescue Telescope
Back in her natural element...Sounds like the title of the next Disney Channel animated series, don’t it, muchachos? I bet you thought Unk would be writing about the comet nine-day-wonder, Comet...
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A Tale of Two Comets
LovejoyWhat’s strange, muchachos? The effects hairy stars, visitors from the outer Solar System, the great comets have on us. What’s a great comet? Simple: any comet prominent enough to be noticed by...
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Issue 590: What Has Stuck with Me?
Stellarium: Now that's a pretty soft, paw-paw!Which astronomy software has stuck with me, I mean, muchachos. Which is not what this one was supposed to be about. It was intended to concern my ongoing...
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