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"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thunder Bay - WEATHER - Keep the umbrella close in Thunder Bay all the way to Kenora. Thunder Bay Weather Forecast: Rainy Intervals and Steady Showers Welcome to Thunder Bay, where rainy intervals bring nature's serenade! Periods of Rain: Nature's Melodic Symphony Thunder Bay experiences periods of rain, as if nature itself is orchestrating a

"Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away." -Carl Sagan

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all." -Abraham Lincoln It might be Veterans Day / Armistice Day all around the world, but it's still Messier Monday here on Starts With A Bang! We may have been fighting wars for all of human history, but nearly all of the 110 deep sky objects that make up the Messier Catalogue go back long before that.

You can put on your 1920's era clothes and participate in a speakeasy-style event this Friday in downtown St. Cloud.

You can put on your 1920's era clothes and participate in a speakeasy-style event this Friday in downtown St. Cloud.

You can put on your 1920's era clothes and participate in a speakeasy-style event this Friday in downtown St. Cloud.

You can put on your 1920's era clothes and participate in a speakeasy-style event this Friday in downtown St. Cloud.

Rob Pettengill, Ph.D., is an engineer, astrophotographer, sidewalk astronomer, and volunteer astronomy educator from Austin, Texas. As a NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador, he gives astronomy and astrophotography talks to schools and clubs. His BadAstroPhotos.com website images and how-to content are free for non-commercial reuse to readers in 168 countries. In social media, his outreach is on Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, Cloudy Nights, and Quora, where he’s a “most read” astrophotography an...

Learning how to setup tracking with a meh telescope and a sturdy mount is in my opinion more fun and more rewarding than just tracing with a DSLR tele lens. Unless you have a system with big enough magnification to start bumping into the real issues with stabilization and tracking, on a DSLR with an APS sensor that will start happening around 300/400 mm focal length and lenses that are good enough to start doing stacking with are more expensive than a meh telescope. Also its b...