Golden Anniversary of First Moon Landing Photo credit: NASA Fifty years ago this month the United States was preparing to send the first humans to walk on the surface of ...
One hundred years ago the largest telescope in the world was the historic 100-inch-diameter (2.5 meter) John D. Hooker reflecting telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory, just north of the greater ...
Moon Landing Dress Rehearsal 50 Years Ago Image courtesy NASA In space history 50 years ago, the U.S. was preparing one last 3-man Apollo flight before the actual landing of ...
This Kind of Telescope Kept Trains Running The sky is one big giant calendar clock and the motion and rotation of its orbs the hands. The changes in the apparent ...
My Home-built 6" f/8 Newtonian Reflector, doing a solar projection during the last total solar eclipse, August 21st, 2017. A Different Take on The Classic First Telescope The venerable 6" f/8 telescope ...
Mercury Best Placed for Evening Viewing in 2019 February offers the best evening sky observing opportunity this year for the innermost planet, Mercury. More about that later because first I ...
Only Total Lunar Eclipse for 2019 Visible From Here This Month January 20th 2019 Eclipse Graphic. Photo Credit: Leah Tiscione / Sky & Telescope The only total lunar eclipse for ...
Photo Credit: astro-baby.com Getting Started in Visual Astronomy The purpose of this Web Log is to pass on to other members tips that you have learned about visual astronomy. From ...
Photo Credit: Michael Broussard This month could see the dramatic brightening of a periodic comet peaking at mid-month. Optimistic predictions expect the comet to become visible to the unaided eye. ...
Photo Credit: NASA Last month NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, its second deep space mission in 2018. (The other was Insight, destined for a November landing on Mars.) Parker ...
Over a several hour period during these ongoing short summer nights, it is possible to view the four brightest planets of our solar system. Although each is easily visible ...
Fifty years ago this month in 1968 the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were locked in a race to reach the moon. ...
