Why should it cost you thousands of dollars to enjoy astronomy? It doesn’t and it shouldn’t. All you have to do is “look up” on a clear, dark moonless night to enjoy the beauty of the night sky. But what if I want to get a closer look at the moon or Saturn’s rings, for[…]
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) A bright, fast moving comet is now gracing the early morning skies. For the early riser, it rises at about 5:45 AM, EDT and will pass behind the sun on October 9th and then become an evening object as it recedes from the sun. The comet arrived at perihelion on Friday, September[…]
Update (22 July, 2020) As of today’s date, Comet 2020 F3 NeoWise rises with the sun and is thus, exclusively an evening object. The comet is well placed at twilight, south and west of Merak and Dubhe, the famous “pointer stars” of the “Big Dipper“, the Northern-Hemisphere asterism made famous as a great “dipper” in[…]
In this video, we take a quick look at the early August sky at twilight and move on, later into the night, taking a look at the major planets (Jupiter and Saturn, in Scorpio and Sagittarius, respectively), a quick look at the early Autumn constellations, rising much later into the night. We then take an[…]
Remember the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and the intrepid little lander, Philae that went missing, was subsequently found and then went quiet again? Well, the mystery has been solved. High-resolution cameras aboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft have found Philae, wedged into a crack and in the shadow of a cliff on the[…]
