AAVSO Alert Notice 398: Eclipse of Epsilon Aurigae
AAVSO Alert Notice 398: Eclipse of epsilon Aurigae July 10, 2009 The bright, long-period, eclipsing binary star epsilon Aurigae is predicted to begin its next eclipse…
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Getting Back Into Astrophotography
I built a roll-off roof observatory about 10 years ago to house a Vixen VC200L 8″ reflector to cut down on the setup time for the…
Read the article →Welcome to My Personal Astronomy Blog
Thanks for stopping by! I’ve been running the Night Sky Observer site since 1997 but this sub-blog is intended primarily to document my progress in getting…
Read the article →LRO Spacecraft Sends First Lunar Images
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras — a low resolution…
Read the article →NASA Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens of Pulsars
With NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars. In two studies published in…
Read the article →Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: July 7, 2009
A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on July 7, 2009, the second of four lunar eclipses in 2009. This eclipse will only enter the southern…
Read the article →AAVSO Alert Notice 397: Request for Optical Photometry of the Bright X-Ray Binary V884 Sco (4U 1700-377)
AAVSO Alert Notice 397: Request for optical photometry of the bright X-ray binary V884 Sco (4U 1700-377) June 30, 2009 Dr. Jerome Orosz (SDSU) has requested…
Read the article →NASA Announces Request for Information on Werner Von Braun Collection
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to…
Read the article →LCROSS Mission
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone Tuesday with a lunar swingby and calibration of its…
Read the article →The Herschel-Planck Mission
Herschel opened its ‘eyes’ on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, ‘the whirlpool galaxy’ for a first test observation.…
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