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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
Livingston, Jr., and * updated for world not ending (whew)
Twas the night after Solstice, and the world did not end,
The doomsdayers are storing their bulk-wrapped ramen.
The Mayan long calendar isn’t news anymore,
But some nut jobs will still hype a killer meteor.
Meanwhile, [...]
IC 405 and AE Aurigae
Stardate: Saturday November 14, 2009.
Place: Chuckwalla Bench Observing Site
Equipment: 12.5-inch Litebox Reflector, f/5.75 Pierrre Schwaar mirror
Sky conditions: Better than expected (clear, steady, good transparancy, but cold)
Mojo and I try to head out to our favorite dark sky observing spot every new moon Saturday night. Usually several of our Old [...]
ARIA Advanced Radar Instrument Aircraft
Jane boarding the ARIA
4 of the 6 IMCU team members in front of ARIA
November 1999: 10 days, 40 flying hours, 65 researchers and Air Force personnel, five members of the press, seven Air Force bases (four US, two UK, one Azores), 6 amateur astronomers, three aircraft, 15,251 [...]
Dorothea Klumpke
As I prepare a blog down memory lane, recalling my own airborne observations of the 1999 Leonid Storm, I wanted to share the adventures of the first woman airborne Leonid pioneer, Dorothea Klumpke.
Over one hundred years ago, American born astronomer Dorothea Klumpke flew through the Leonids in a balloon. She was the first [...]
The ghoul on the moon
NGC 246 the Skull Nebula
IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula
It’s time to get out the Milky Way and Mars candy bars, the Moon Pies and the Starburst chews. It’s Halloween! The moon — just past first quarter — will greet your trick or treaters this year. A first quarter [...]
Public star party at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park
Our tent and telescopes, OSP, Ochoco National Forest, OR
I was inspired to hum this old hobo ballad and change the words a little
after a summer observing trip to Glacier Point in Yosemite National
Park. For you musicologists, I added my “observations” to the 1928
recording of Big [...]
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