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Once a year the Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers pack tents and telescopes and caravan to Black Canyon Group Campground in Mojave National Preserve, an hours drive from Amboy Crater and about 3 hours from home. Once the tents are pitched we put on a star party with assistance from the National Preserve staff, leaders of the [...] Hauling a telescope across the streets of San Francisco Jane-Orion plus Canis Major and Canis Minor Mojo demonstrating where to find Jupiter’s moons Getting some eye candy Sidewalk Astronomers have been setting up telescopes on Halloween as long as there have been sidewalk astronomers! When we lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’d cross the [...] 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 [...] Look for the shuttle to the right of the contrail in my photo (click on the image for full res version) Shuttle and ground in one image. This photo and the rest of these photos courtesy of Gary Spiers Space shuttle Discovery Touchdown – twin dustplumes from gear touching down Parachute deploys NASADryden tweeted at [...] I’m Jane Houston Jones. During the work week, I’m a Senior Outreach Specialist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California where I coordinate informal education for the Cassini Mission to Saturn. It’s an exciting job, writing about Saturn, answering questions from the public, and working with museums and planetariums. I’m also the Twitter [...] |
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