can you include a photograph of your telescope set up with the eyepiece in place? I suspect you just don’t have your blocking filter pushed all the way in.

Time to keep the lights on again. I’m asking members to please prepare to make a small or large donation to our semi annual fundraiser that begins on October 1, 2023. Our goal will be $15,000 US and the fundraiser will end on October 31st. Thank you to all of our steadfast supporters and I hope you ...

this months topic will be a lecture concerning the upcoming annular solar eclipse presented by Shawn Johnson of Atlanta. Solarchat is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Solarchat Monthly Hangout on Zoom Time: This is a recurring meeting on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 1800GMT Join Z...

come join us for a get together of solar astronomy friends Sunday at 1830 GMT. Stephen W. Ramsden is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Solarchat Monthly Hangout on Zoom Time: 1800GMT Sunday, 13 Aug 2023 Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5813691822 Meeting ID: 581 369 1822 Pa...

i’ve been using mine for over a decade and I’ve never plugged it into a computer. The hand controller is tiny and removes one more step in software for me so I love it.

great!

i’m sorry for this inadvertent result of recent forum changes. I reactivated the XLS extension and all should be good

There has only ever been one user removed from this forum and that is Apollo Lasky. He goes by several names on various astronomy forums and due to grievous and repeated violations of forum rules and unwanted personal contact with me, posting extraordinarily unsafe things for solar astronomy and ill...

Hi everyone. we had a wonderful Solarchat zoom meeting this past Sunday and I invite all of you to attend future ones. It was decided by the group that we would put some restrictions on certain upload file formats because we keep getting gigantic tiff files being uploaded that no one else can see. A...

thank you for hosting Alexandra! Natalie and I are at the Marsh House and I have been busy wrestling alligators out of the backyard and chasing off hogs. I will be signing in to test our high-speed Internet to see if it is dependable enough to host future meetings from here. We are out in the middle...

We are here! waiting.

Since this is a very international forum, a lot of users have way slower internet than in the states. If possible, could you upload in jpg format instead of png? These images are 25MB each…:) We don’t really restrict anything here on solarchat so we rely on the users to keep it all running smooth. T...

looking forward to seeing everyone this coming Sunday at 1800 GMT for our monthly solarchat meet up. I’m not sure what Alexandra has in store for us ;), but we will meet up and say hello and find out. here is the Zoom information: Stephen W. Ramsden is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic...

Thanks to a very small group of incredibly generous, longtime supporters of the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth, WE MET OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL!!! there is one more day left in the fundraiser so if you would like to participate, I will be sending everything raised over the goal to ou...

Thanks Katherine Jares for your donation to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth! Spring Fundraiser! we are at $13,050 of the $15,000 goal!! This is the last weekend of our drive and we would really appreciate your generous, tax deductible contribution at www.paypal.me/cbsap Thank ...

Thanks so much to all of our wonderful, but tiny group of donors so far! It is May 23rd, the fundraising goal is $15k by next Wednesday, May 31st! We are just over $12k now. WE CAN DO IT! Those of you who watch these posts go by and just get irritated or act like they don’t exist and never donate to...

www.paypal.me/cbsap

it would be great if a couple dozen more members could send something to the fundraiser so I can quit pestering everyone.

www.paypal.me/cbsap

That’s about as good as it gets right there, James.

www.paypal.me/cbsap to support our Spring fundraiser!

Thank you 14 forum members for your donations.

turns out since it’s mothers day, I cant host it. Alexandra is running this one.