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Celestron Edge HD Series Telescope

Celestron Edge HD Series 9.25" Telescope with iOptron Mount ($2,900)

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Coronado PST Hydrogen-Alpha Solar Telescope

Coronado PST Hydrogen-Alpha Solar Telescope with Mount and Tripod ($675)

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Club Slogan: “Carpe Noctem”

Latin for “seize the night” (the clear, steady, dark night sky)
Milky Way Alan Davis
The core of our galaxy, The Milky Way, photographed by club member Alan Davis at one of the club’s “Pop-up” star gazes, at the Mt. Pisgah Trailhead on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Tom Engwall M13

Globular Star Cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, taken by club member Tom Engwall

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. We see the universe the way it is because, if it were different, we would not be here to observe it.”
– Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

David Krause Markarians Chain

Markarian's Chain is a stretch of 7+ galaxies that lie along a smoothly curved line and form part of the Virgo Cluster. They are more than 50 million light years from Earth. Composite photo with 75 hours of total exposure time and extensive post processing, by club member David Krause.