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Comet ISON October 6, 2013 by Jane Houston Jones All year long, astronomers have been writing about Comet ISON: will it sizzle or will it fizzle? I was chomping at the bit, waiting for the visual magnitude to brighten enough to try viewing this comet through my own telescope (shown on the right). Finally, the [...] All year long, astronomers have been writing about Comet ISON: will it sizzle or will it fizzle? Both! Here’s my What’s Up video, with December status (written in mid November, but luckily, the comet didn’t completely fizzle) ISON in December 2013 Comet ISON first spotted by amateur astronomer Bruce Gary and has been imaged by many [...] The day before launch – Atlas V in 551 configuration (5-meter payload fairing, 5 solid rocket strap-ons). Under the fairing is a Centaur second stage and Juno. Launch 12:25 p.m. EDT August 5, 2011 Bound for Jupiter – a plume sundial. You can tell the time of launch by the shadow of the plume [...] The moon's summer and winter path, courtesy NASA's Starchild website The winter’s moon – a smiling crescent just after sunset Feb 5, 2011 (click to see moon upper center) Closeup of winter crescent moon The summer's "backwards C" crescent moon at sunset, late June 2007 (click to see moon in lower right) Closeup [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Galileo’s drawing my drawing my sketch of Jupiter’s rotation Galileo published his observations in Sidereus Nuncius in March 1610: “On the 7th day of January in the present year, 1610, in the first hour of the following night, when I was viewing the constellations of the heavons through a telescope, the planet Jupiter [...] |
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