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Perseid Peak Aug 12-13 18h-7h UT My Perseid count Aug 13 06h-11h UT Sunset at Amboy Crater, with moon and Venus Amboy Crater by day For the past year I’ve been traveling to dark skies to observe and count meteors during the major showers. Armed with a clipboard and a comfy chair, I stare at [...] See the moon and planets low in the west August 12, courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech The view from Earth – the planetary lineup in orbital perspective courtesy NASA’s Solar System Simulator, courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars and moon imaged same day with same equipment (in 2005) courtesy Jim Keen A trio of planets, without the moon August 7, [...] Updated 1/1/2012 Before – 13.1-inch f/4.5 Coulter Odyssey 1 After – – note the original blue ground board Update: A colleague at work had a telescope he wanted to give away. I advertised it and found someone who wanted it. Here’s a before and after image. The telescope has been reincarnated as you [...] Moonrise over Chuckwalla Mountains July 3, 2010 about 11:30 p.m. Third quarter moon, a half hour later My small 70mm Televue Ranger was used for the moon images Summer dark sky observing means short nights, and it’s usually too hot for comfort in the Colorado desert location we love. But Mojo and I decided [...] Use a chart like this to locate where to look for your object Can you find the constellation Perseus and comet McNaught in Mojo’s lovely skyscape? Mojo's photo of Comet McNaught Quick comet sketch with notes. See the long ion tail, the bright coma, and the short dust tail in my sketches Comet C/2009 [...] December 1690 sketch of new dark spot on Jupiter by G. D. Cassini and changes to the spot over 18 days My first sketch of SL 9 impacts on Jupiter July 18, 1994. My July 26, 2009 sketch of the impact on Jupiter, discovered by Anthony Wesley (upper left 11-o’clock spot)
Anthony Wesley's preliminary [...] I’m putting my hands inside the neophrene gloves, which are now filled with nitrogen Jane and JPL outreach colleagues give 3 lunar samples a thumbs up. While attending the 41st Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, TX (a suburb of Houston) in early March 2010, I was lucky enough to visit the Johnson [...] * Inspired by the poem A Visit From St. Nicholas, written by Major Henry Twas the night before Solstice, when all through the city, IC 405 and AE Aurigae Stardate: Saturday November 14, 2009. Mojo and I try to head out to our favorite dark sky observing spot every new moon Saturday night. Usually several of our Old [...] |
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