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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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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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