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
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Preliminary Testing of Focal Reducers and the Mighty Mini for Occulation Timing
I’ve been giving myself a crash course in optics trying to understand how to set up the optical train for occulation timings. Actually, for the primary system I’m hoping to use, “Scotty’s Mighty Mini,” the IOTA Yahoo group has been very helpful where I can just build it from the recommended parts and go. But… if I …
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Spring 2011
It’s been a while since we had an astronomy club at PS102, but we’re back! Most of the sessions are repeats but since the original class that took them is now in 7th grade, that shouldn’t bother you. In fact, you’re getting a better deal since it means the activities are tried, improved, and in …
Rockland Astronomy Club Summer Star Party
The annual family camping and summer star party sponsored by the Rockland Astronomy Club and held at Shady Pines campground in Savoy, MA will be held Jul. 29-Aug 7. Details can be found at http://www.rocklandastronomy.com/SSP/index.html.
North East Astronomy Forum
The 20th annual North East Astronomy Forum will be held at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY. As usual, the two-day event will include well over 100 vendors, an open to the public solar observing session (weather permitting), numerous speakers, and hourly children’s activities. Children under 16 are admitted free with a paying adult. More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
NGC 7000 Not-so-Preliminary Image
I finally had time to try reprocess this image using data from the August 31 outing. Much better, but I still need some practice. The overall appearance is still a bit dark, but I need to go back to the originals and start from scratch again. If you look in the lower right-hand corner, you …
NGC 7000 Preliminary Image
We spent the long weekend in upstate New York at a friends house on the Delaware River. Naturally, I couldn’t resist taking the astrophotography equipment. I took the AstroTrac, the laptop, and everything needed to shoot with my Canon 350D. Friday night was a wash-out, but that was expected. Sunday night looked like it might …
Summer Star Party
Rockland Astronomy Club‘s annual Summer Star Party held in Shady Pines Campground is a family event with a playground, swimming pool, ball fields and local attractions of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Alas, Shady Pines closed around 2017 so we moved to Peppermint Park, but that became unavailable in 2020 with the pandemic and we’ve …