Just saw this news item: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/1967_weather_forecast_stopped_nuclear_war/ John Savard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrP6QfbC2g The sight of the entire continent of Antarctica turning around a surface point is only matched and surpassed by...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB3NPTdwmc What this can be? Reflaction?

Once again, a night with clear skies! I decided to go after a few Caldwell Objects this time. The telescope was The Beast (a 6-inch f/6.5 achromat). My...

Just how good does an eyepiece need to be? Some time back I read a review on one set of eyepieces or another in Sky&Telescope or Astronomy. To me, the...

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36970326 Very expensive robots crawling around on Mars, why can't we have robots on the Moon moving around sending pictures ,...

Last night I decided to conduct a Messier Marathon. The sky was mostly clear with just a thin veil of haze from wild fires near and far. To the south a...

Radio Meteor Observation Bulletin No. 276 of July 2016 (52 K) is available now as http://www.rmob.org/rmobtext/rmob1607.txt More information and the visual...

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-mars-gullies-liquid.html

By Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Rochester: This is a year of politics. That means everyone has opinions about where the world should...

A ship had a successful mission... http://www.rsc.org/eic/2016/07/mass-spectrometry-philae-rosetta-analytical-chemistry despite the fact that its use of...

The September “Sky&Telescope� has a nice article by Phillip Kane on the Dawes Limit. In the article Kane provides a list of double stars. I went through...

Today's APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1607/DanubeAnalemmaSoponyai.jpg

This article is interesting: http://www.mycentraloregon.com/2016/07/31/nasa-spacecraft-set-to-explore-giant-asteroid-that-could-destroy-earth/ An article in...

http://www.thecoldestjourney.org/wp-content/uploads/average_temperatures__for_conditions_and_terrain_.png A single surface rotation governs the rise and fall...

I have dealt with eric barkemeyer and he provided me with a great scope at a great price. i loved dealing him, he is so knowledgeable, very respectable and has...

http://www.albanydailystar.com/science/soonly-nasa-will-close-international-space-station-and-will-move-to-moon-bellevue-tech-time-13159.html His comments...

I had several nearly perfect nights with highest resolution that I have seen here at my Northern Illinois observatory. We had a stationary high pressure that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_28,_1851 Interesting! First image of a solar eclipse, using daguerrotype process (silver...

That's how fast should be to set up a telescope!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VCYBtx6h4g One screws up and the car takes off on 3 wheels!...