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** Inspired by the poem A Visit From St. Nicholas, written by Major Henry Twas the night after Solstice, and the world did not end, Meanwhile, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Observing report, dark sky weekend, October, 2009, Chuckwalla Bench A perfect night begins with Earth's shadow climbing in the east One one side of the green van is the Imaging zone On the other side of the green van is the visual observing zone When the clear sky chart reads perfect, we can’t wait to get [...] Wilfred Buck at NYAA Starfest 2009 Ochek Atchakosuk – The Fisher Stars Atima Atchakosuk – the dog stars with Polaris, Mihkun Atchakos, the wolf star Matootisan – The Sweat Lodge Matootisan Assiniuk – Sweat Lodge Rocks Niska flying in the Summer Bird's Path (Milky Way) Atchakosuk are the spirit lights up above. “All people [...] Rough sketch of LCROSS impact area finished sketch of Cabeus and environs E. A. Whitaker 1954 sketch Mojo and I started to setup his 14.5-inch f/4.8 Litebox reflector at 3:30 a.m. on LCROSS impact morning. There were marine layer clouds at that hour, but by the time we were set up it was clear [...] 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 [...] |
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