The next meeting of the Richmond Astronomical Society will be on March 13 at the Science Museum of Virginia.  Please join us for the meeting at 7:30 PM in the Museum’s Eureka Theater and for dinner and casual conversation before the meeting at Arby’s across the street from the Museum.

Randy Tatum recently captured this image of the Eskimo Nebula with his 12″ LX200 and Imaging Source camera. This is a single 30 second exposure processed with Photoshop CS2.  Thanks to Randy for sharing his image with us.

The next meeting of the Richmond Astronomical Society will be held at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, September 14 at the Science Museum of Virginia in the Eureka Theater.  Jeff Pike will be presenting on “Dark Flow.”

Thanks to Randy Tatum for this recent image of Jupiter showing the great red spot and diminished southern equatorial belt (south is up in this image).

Don’t forget to check on the progress of Sydney’s Telescope.   She is moving along with her project!