Science Daily: Uranus
- New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like January 5, 2024
- Ringing in the holidays with ringed planet Uranus December 19, 2023
Science Daily: Pluto
- How Pluto got its heart April 15, 2024
- Evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets February 15, 2024
Science Daily: Kuiper Belt
- How Pluto got its heart April 15, 2024
- Evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets February 15, 2024
Year: 2009
Moon 2º to Upper Left of Jupiter
Tonight the moon and Jupiter will be only 2º apart and easily visible in the evening sky.
IYA2009 Galilean Nights
Four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei turned his small telescope toward the skies and so started a series of events that revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Two of the objects observed by Galileo which most affected his understanding (and hence ours) were the Moon and Jupiter. Both will be well placed in the evening …
Urban Starfest
This annual event is sponsored by the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York in conjunction with the Urban Park Rangers. Stargazing in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow will be hosted by numerous amateur astronomers (and their telescopes!). More details are available at the announcement page at the AAANY web site: http://www.aaa.org/index.aspx?LOBID=952 If you are on Facebook, …
Urban Starfest on Saturday!
If you are New York City, this weekend is the annual Urban Starfest held in Sheep Meadow (Central Park). While those of you from more rural areas may think it something of a joke to have a (mini) star party in the middle of the a major city, you would be surprised at what you …
astrofoto.org down time
I had a rather long outage due to a botched upgrade from which I am still recovering. I had planned on upgrading from Fedora 8, to 9, then 10, and finally 11. You have to upgrade incrementally, but the first step failed part way through after having started installing packages. An attempt to retry crashed …
Double Cluster in Perseus
This is not the first time I took pictures of this cluster, but it is the first time I took a lot of exposures to insure I had plenty of data. These clusters go by multiple names. First is the Double Cluster so named for obvious reasons that it is two clusters close together in …
AstroTrac Performance
Well, the recent burst of image processing from my June images has revealed a few issues with my AstroTrac’s performance. Up until now, I’ve attributed the errors I’ve had to the tripod and head on which I mount the AstroTrac. However, at this point, I’m not sure that’s the whole story. To be sure, the …
Antares – Rho Ophiuchi Complex
This is one of my favorite areas of the sky and I first fell in love with the rich variation of color and texture after seeing an image taken by Akira Fuji. Ever since then, It’s been high on my list of areas I’d like to image. Unfortunately, it’s also rather difficult to do that …
Ten Mile River
St. Anselm’s Troop 13 took its annual trip to Boy Scout camp Ten Mile River during week 2 of the summer camp season. I was signed up to be an astronomy counselor and loaded the car with numerous props to use as enrichment items with whomever was doing the normal classes. What I didn’t quite …
Traveling Time
The summer is always busy for us as traveling has to be done when the boys are out of school. I’m going to backfill a little of what we have done this summer as life hasn’t always slowed down enough to let me write! In late June, we left NYC a week before school finished …