Sky and Rockets

On the night of May 30-31 there may be a new meteor shower - and it might be a big one! Meteor showers occur when the earth passes through t...

Late Sunday evening, May 15, 2022, the Moon will slip into the earth's shadow for one of the best total lunar eclipses in a long time.  ...

Back in March I posted about a new comet discovered on 26 July 2021 by the Pan-STARRS sky survey that looked likely to be a naked-eye object...

It's amazing how the relative size of our sun and our moon are almost exactly the same, and because of that eclipses of the sun are very...

The Collider Detector at Fermilab Something is just not right with the mass of the W boson - it's just a bit heavier than expected. How ...

Working off my backlog of imaged deep space objects, I present the Spider and the Fly in narrowband and broadband combined.  Well, if you pa...

C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet, discovered on 26 July 2021 by the Pan-STARRS sky survey. It will come to perihelion (closest a...

One of my favorite images that I captured back in 2020 was the Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula, NGC 2264. Back then I used my ASI1600...

I'm sure many of you heard of the passage of asteroid 1994 PC1 on January 18, 2022.  Well, if not, here are the details. On January 18, ...

Working off my backlog of images to process,  I finally got around to completing the Seagull Nebula. The Seagull Nebula, IC 2177, is a large...

It never fails.  You get new astro gear and the clouds will roll in, or in this case, never leave!  Most astrophotographers believe that the...