Weather Reports from the 2019 Lunar Eclipse
Like last year’s, the Moon began to form an unnatural crescent, and yet unlike last year’s there formed a reddish hue as it reached totality.
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Computer Looking Up
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Don’t Try This at Home
Possibly the worst characteristic of our Sun is that it is so bright.
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Constellations X: Spring Triangle Fever
For the Spring Triangle, you are seeing the complete and full dimensions of the source image.
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Binocular Relaxation
I will say this for cloudy weekdays – at least I don’t have to make up excuses for not taking my telescope and camera out on a “school night.”
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Constellations VII: Orion and Taurus
Waxing Moon notwithstanding, these conditions were perfect for tripoding my camera and trying out my new wide-field lens.
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Weather Reports from the 2018 Lunar Eclipse
I had prepared my 127mm Mak-Cass and digital camera with tripod, hoping to see and capture this morning’s Lunar Eclipse event.
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The Orion Nebula via Smartphone
There were many targets in the sky, but as it was a school night, I decided to focus (no pun intended) on the Orion Nebula.
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The Brightness of Algol, Part I
I had been hoping to take pictures over the course of days to see if changes in its brightness could be detected.
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Four Nights, One Lamp, Four Phases
This format was unintentional at the start, but by Thursday I decided to trek along with the experiment as long as the clouds would stay away.
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Dreaming of Another World
What can be said about dreaming of life in another star system?
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