Sky and Rockets

The decision to try to land a robot on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November has been confirmed. Last month, planners on Euro...

The tune-up of my telescope mount was a success.  Both axes now operate "silky" smooth and the backlash is gone!  Now all I have t...

If you are up early on Wednesday morning and have a clear sky to the western horizon you might want to take a glimpse of the 2nd total eclip...

After a number of attempts to resolve a problem with guiding, I determined that some severe backlash in the DEC axis and some moderate backl...

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 ...