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#astro #astronomy Electronically Assisted Astronomy, #astrophotography #lightpollution Guitar and songwriting, Creative Writing, Photography and The Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 3d

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First view of season Orion Nebula low on horizon after midnight

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 4d

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Ha! My EEA stack of 30 second exposures reminded me of my screensaver a couple of decades back

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 5d

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Live streaming Andromeda at 240mm

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 10d

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Screen sharing the moon asi462 cam and 242mm

Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 11d

I looked closer at the size of the pieces. That's insane! Lovely.

Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 12d

Grandkids would like!

Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 13d

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Solar activity

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 13d

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Yesterday's solar outreach

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ashedarksky.org @ashedarksky.org · 14d

We had such a great evening celebrating NASA's Observe the Moon Night at Rendezvous Mountain State Park! Thank you to all those who helped set it up including Ranger Matheson and Mr. Shepherd. We hope to do it again soon! #astronomy #publichealth #lightpollution #ashecounty #wilkescounty

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 15d

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Saturn and Moon EEA

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 15d

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Facebook live sunspots EEA

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 16d

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Saturn EEA share

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 16d

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Outreach and EEA sharing at Grandview Overlook on The Blue Ridge Parkway

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 20d

ashedarksky.org @ashedarksky.org · 20d

We will never get to achieve the same sky quality of W. Texas within our area of concern, but we may be one of the best options for thousands of North Carolinians. Source: Astro_Alexandra #Astronomy #astrophotography #publichealth #lightpollution #ashecounty #northcarolina

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Mary McIntyre @marymcintyreastro.bsky.social · 26d

This is what a newly launched batch of Starlink satellites looks like on our #MeteorCameras. All night stacked images are from 21 Sept '25, Oxfordshire, UK. Behind the crud the cameras captured 127 & 160 meteors respectively. Fortunately RMS software is good at filtering out junk

star trails, numerous aircraft trails and a wide smear across the sky caused by newly launched satellites. Behind those trails lie over a hundred meteors

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 25d

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Granddaughter's tribute to the night sky

Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · 26d

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#eea sharing Saturn from home at Rainbow Trail

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ashedarksky.org @ashedarksky.org · 28d

Price Lake was fantastic early on tonight. We did some LP outreach with about 20 folks and did an astrophotography clinic while our resident Star Sherpa (John Boston) shared views of Saturn at opposition.

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ashedarksky.org @ashedarksky.org · Sep 14

One of the busiest nights at the DSO we can remember. The evening started a bit cloudy, but cleared out to show just about every object we could think of including Saturn and Neptune.

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ashedarksky.org @ashedarksky.org · Sep 11

Another fine night of dark skies at 221 Access New River State Park. We were able to see the ISS, catch a glimpse of a few meteors including a fireball, and see excellent views of the southern Milky Way, Andromeda, M13 and Albireo. Solar photos were also taken by the guests.

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · Sep 11

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · Sep 8

#astronomy #astro Night Sky Outreach at Grandview on the Blue Ridge

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ashedarksky.org @ashedarksky.org · Sep 6

We had a wonderful evening helping out at App State's Family Weekend event at the Dark Sky Observatory. We were able to help approximately 60 guests get their first close up views of the Moon and Saturn.

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · Aug 31

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Clair Obscur effects Lunar V ( 12 O'Clock) and Lunar X (7 o'clock) captured tonight.
X and V appear along the perimeter each month for only a couple of hours time of day permitting seeing as rising sunlight only illuminates the peaks of specific craters.

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Star Sherpa @starsherpa.net · Aug 31

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Education and astronomy viewing at App State Dark Sky Observatory