Piedmont Amateur Astronomers

08/16/2026

Check out one of Piedmont Amateur Astronomers member in this podcast to learn all about the upcoming lunar eclipse.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18e5Y6MJLH/

Episode 241Welcome to another episode of The Observers Notebook, ...

08/11/2026

Well the crescent Moon this morning looks a lot different than yesterday's Moon. The reason is SMOKE.........................

07/20/2026

Images from Doughton Park by Chris Cashwell

07/12/2026

The sun has been pretty active lately.

06/04/2026

04/25/2026

With the Piedmont Amateur Astronomers!

04/25/2026

The PIEDMONT AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS were in attendance at the STATEWIDE STAR PARTY event tonight at LAKE NORMAN STATE PARK. we showed analog and digital images of the stars and planets to 110 Park guests and campers

04/21/2026

Look what we can do with our MLASTRO Spectroheliograph SHG700. New softwares allows us to create a video and rotate the sun around on it's axis!!!

04/21/2026

https://ncsciencefestival.org/starparty/?fbclid=IwdGRjcART15VjbGNrBFPW1WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnelkeVwGpuTdPnb7xWIuxhDfWPfDX3J1Ogq5LlxD2YYTof9UGc_vEkdcVEA_aem_rQRdoqhSU5yw0s0OjhrrQg

Thanks to generous grant support from the North Carolina Space Grant, the 2026 North Carolina Science Festival will again feature the Statewide Star Party as a signature initiative.

10/15/2025

I got the SKY-WATCHER HELIOSTAR76 out & shot this 2 panel mosaic of NOAA AR4246 as it was flaring. I used the ALTAIR ASTRO GPCAM678m with it's 2.0 micron pixels tp capture this high resolution image.

You can see a light bridge in the core and lots of active filaments in the image as well as spicules.

I processed the image in b&w for the purists and then made a copy and colorized it with my custom solar colorization script in Photoshop.

Send a message to learn more