Sky and Rockets

On November 11th, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will dispatch the heavily instrumented Philae lander to an area call...

It turns out that there was just a bit too much noise in the high ISO images I took of comet Jacques back on August 26th. Stacking and proce...

While I'm still processing the closeup images of comet Jacques from August 26, I couldn't resist the clear skies we got in Maryland ...

Initial image of comet C/2014 E2 Jacques Here is the initial (no post processing to remove noise and bad pixel artifacts) image of the nuc...

Measurement at Big Bang Conditions Confirms Lithium Problem Lithium, aside from hydrogen and helium, is one of the three elements that are...

Well the new motor board arrived on Saturday - but I was at the dump taking care of household chores. Of course, the shipment required a sig...

Well, it had to happen. As anyone who knows about the "Mangieri Cloud", technology and the local Mangieri household don't get ...

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Where were you 45 years ago when that message was beamed to earth from the Moon?  ...

Last Friday evening was an unbelievable evening for July in Maryland. The temperature was in the low 60's, dew point way low, no wind, c...

So what do you do when the skies are clear and the moonlight interferes with your imaging of deep space objects?  Why, photograph the Moon, ...

Many of us have seen images of supernovae remnants, rings of gas from exploding stars and various other astro-photos of similar star explos...