Some may recall me mentioning my recent playing around with old Galilean opera and field glasses after getting interested in seeing what Garrett Serviss'...

Look at the remnants of supernova 1987A. You will see several beautiful rings. They are reflections of neutron hole. CERN does not know about neutron hole....

'Listening' to black holes form with gravity waves http://phys.org/news/2013-08-black-holes-gravity.html The new equipment has allowed the physicists to...

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK05 Serial Number: 727 Issue Time: 2013 Aug 16 0344 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 Threshold Reached: 2013 Aug...

Space Weather Message Code: WATA20 Serial Number: 546 Issue Time: 2013 Aug 13 1956 UTC WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G1 Predicted Highest...

After being hopelessly clouded out last night, tonight turned out to be reasonably clear... Not perfect, a little murky with humidity, and the occasional...

Monday morning - 4am After about an inch of rain some hours ago, Cheryl and I arrived at Ada Hayden Park north of Ames at 4am to observe Perseids ....

The low clouds and fog have been real bad in the San Francisco Bay area this summer, pushing inland further than usual, so I wasn't sure my usual observing...

20x80 Observations - Session #2 Date: 11 August 2013 Time: 05:40 - 06:10 UT Zenith NELM: 6.5 Strong, all-sky, natural sky-glow 20x80 binoculars - used...

Identifying Herschel misidentification http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i2/p8_s2?bypassSSO=1 From our past study of the Herschel drawings...

Space Weather News for August 11, 2013 http://spaceweather.com PERSEID METEOR SHOWER: The Perseid meteor shower is intensifying as Earth moves deeper...

How To Fall Forever Into The Night Sky by Adam Frank It's your neck that's the problem. Your neck is lying to you. All your life you've had to look up at...

Most if not all the institutional answers to the title of the thread really revolve around how to become an empirical drone rather than becoming an astronomer...

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Hey-- I've been away from this group for a LONG time, having moved from N. California (SFAA) to Ireland. I was searching, like many of you, for info on...

Date: 07 August 2013 Time: 04:30 - 07:15 UT Zenith NELM: 6.5 Seeing: 1-2 Pickering (very poor) Telescope: 13cm refractor Magnifications used: 35x, 49x,...

Date: 08 August 2013 Time: 04:15 - 07:33 UT Zenith NELM: 6.5 (checked at 6:15 UT) 20x80 binoculars - used handheld There was a brief rain shower about an...

Space Weather Message Code: WATA20 Serial Number: 545 Issue Time: 2013 Aug 08 1834 UTC WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G1 Predicted Highest...

Space Weather Message Code: WATA20 Serial Number: 544 Issue Time: 2013 Aug 07 1955 UTC WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G1 Predicted Highest...

I've long, (long!) been a fan of binocular stargazing. My first views of the sky were through my father's el-cheapo 7x35's, and as the years have gone by,...