NASA’s Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach orbit.
Telemetry indicated the fairing, the protective shell atop the Taurus XL rocket, did not separate as expected about three minutes after launch.
A press briefing to discuss the Glory launch failure is planned at Vandenberg for approximately 8:00 a.m. EST. … Read the rest of this article
Amateur astronomy has a long history of discovery. In fact, it wasn’t so long ago that the amateurs had a better time of it than the professionals.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the job of professional astronomers was to calculate important information such as the times of sunset and sunrise and to provide military and merchant naval fleets with … Read the rest of this article
Big Storm on Saturn: Did you get a telescope for Christmas? If so, point it at Saturn. A giant storm even brighter than Saturn’s rings is raging through the planet’s cloudtops. Amateur images and sky maps are featured on http://spaceweather.com.
Geomagnetic Storm in Progress: At the time this post is being published (late afternoon UT on Dec. 29) a … Read the rest of this article
The Skywatcher 80ED arrived on Friday along with the dual-mount bar for mounting two telescopes side-by-side on a telescope mount. As far as I know this scope is only available in Europe but is rebadged as the Orion SkyView Pro ED80 EQ Apo Refractor Telescope in the USA.
The 80ED arrived in a nice aluminium carry case with the extras: … Read the rest of this article
By John Flannery, South Dublin Astronomy Society (SDAS)
It is with great pleasure that we can officially tell everyone that another Irish amateur astronomer has been honoured by having an asteroid named after them.
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John McConnell, Maire O’Connor, James O’Connor and John O’Neill at the presentation for the naming of asteroid 30558 Jamesoconnor at the IAS/SDAS meeting …
[Update: October 13: Asteroid 2010 TD54 flew within the orbit of the moon on Oct. 11 while astronomers watched to see if the encounter caused any quakes on the space rock. It was flying over Southeast Asia, near Singapore, at the time. Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston used a remote link with a NASA Infrared … Read the rest of this article
Taking 290 million years to reach Earth, last month that light from a supernova explosion was spotted by an Irish amateur astronomer in his backyard observatory.
David Grennan’s backyard observatory
David Grennan was just about to go to bed on September 17 when he spotted the exploding star through his 36 cm (14-inch) Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope at his home observatory … Read the rest of this article
World Space Week is an annual event that’s held from October 4 to October 10. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly to be an international celebration of science and technology and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition. World Space Week is coordinated by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs with the support … Read the rest of this article
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