Sky and Rockets

 

  Soldiers Delight Star Party - December 21, 2024 "The Search for Exoplanets" Tonight, we embark on an exciting journey beyond our...

Soldiers Delight Star Party - November 16, 2024 "Exploring the Wonders of Our Solar System: A Journey Across Planetary Realms." To...

Back on Oct 1, 2024, I posted that the ATLAS survey in Hawaii had discovered another new comet that would become bright in Earth’s skies. Pr...

I'm still processing the camera shots of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS that I took on Thursday from the church property in Westminster, but ye...

Skies cleared wonderfully this evening, so I set up my camera at my church property and snapped away!  Here are the first images to be proce...

Comet A3 has an anti-tail! Can you see it? What's so special about an anti-tail? Well ... ordinary comet tails always point away from th...

“Unlocking the Cosmic Secrets: The James Webb Space Telescope” Join us on a captivating journey beyond the visible spectrum! The JWST, human...

Spent some time stacking 14 individual 10sec images to get a cleaner, slightly more detailed image of the comet.

Tonight was the first evening that I expected comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas to be visible, possibly with the naked eye, but certainly in binocular...

Although I try to announce when astronomical events will happen reasonably in advance of the event auroras are hard to anticipate and predic...