Astronomy Adventure (cont'd) – Not Much Progress
In our prior Adventure, we had some success with photos of the Moon, making sure we were focused properly through the...
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Mars at Opposition Tonight
Sadly, it was cloudy around here last night when there would have been a beautiful view of a full blue Moon,...
Astronomy Adventure (cont'd) – Back To The Moon
In the last Astronomy Adventure, it became clear that I was having problems with focus. I had been focusing the telescope...
Massive Meteor Fireball Lit The Northeast Sky Last Night
I guessed I missed the massive meteor fireball that streaked across the sky in the Northeast in the early hours of Tuesday...
Astrophotography Adventure (cont'd) – Jupiter and Saturn
In my last post in this series, I made my first, pretty successful effort at imaging a Deep Sky Object, namely...
It's Looking More and More Likely We Are Not Alone
NASA announced today that an additional 1,284 exoplanets had been discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, more than doubling the number...
Mercury Transit Unseen
With Mercury’s transit across the Sun occurring yesterday, I was unprepared as I did not have a solar filter for my...
Transit of Mercury
Tomorrow, Monday, May 9, viewers across most of the world will have a chance to see a rather rare event – the...
Astrophotography Adventure (cont'd) – First Try at DSO
Before I begin the continuation of this series, I should mention that I have only being using the HQ JPEG option...
New Moon Found Circling Kuiper Belt Dwarf Planet
The Kuiper Belt is an area beyond Neptune that hosts a number of dwarf planets (a status poor Pluto was reduced to back...