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October 26th, 2007

I Have No Idea Where This Came From

But I’m gonna post it anyway ‘cuz it made me laugh.

Image Credit: echosphere.net
I don’t care who y’are, dat’s funny raht d’ere…

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September 4th, 2007

Taking An Aurigid Meteor Shower

Image Credit: Chris Peterson
I got out at about 4:30am to check it out and started seeing my first meteors around 5:00am with the peak occurring at about 5:25am or so. I thought about turning on the video camera and pointing it at Auriga, but by the time I got outside, I was pretty […]

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August 10th, 2007

NASA Earth City Lights and Google

Earth at night
As much as I hate light pollution, I love looking at this composite image of the Earth at night. I have a poster of this in my office that I find myself staring at more than I’d like to admit. I find it fascinating to see where we humans have congregated […]

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August 6th, 2007

High Resolution Digital Scans from the Apollo Missions

Image Credit: Apollo Image Archive
The Apollo Image Archive is scanning the film from the Apollo missions into high resolution digital files.
The resolution will be roughly 20 feet, which means that objects larger than this will be resolved when you look at the images. Anything smaller than this will just be a blur.
They are […]

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May 25th, 2007

Awesome Saturn Occultation Mosaic

Earlier in the week if you were in Europe, you got to see this:

Image Credit: Johannes Schedler
On May 22nd, Saturn passed behind the Moon. This event was not visible in North America. The above is a mosaic taken from a 16-inch telescope. Outstanding work.
For those who don’t know, an occulation occurs […]

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May 25th, 2007

Some of the Darkest Skies in the U.S. are in Danger

Here is one of my favorite recent images from Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Image Credit: Astronomy Picture of the Day
The above picture was taken in Death Valley, California and is one of the few remaining places in the U.S. where the stars are so bright and numerous, they literally take your breath away.
When I […]

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April 30th, 2007

I Want a Sky Shed!

So I’m reading my emails from SkyTonight that are sent to me every Friday and I see an article on this REALLY COOL backyard observatory.
For about $1,550 plus shipping, I can get this enclosure that will not only protect my equipment and let me leave it set up all the time, but it’ll really make […]

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April 13th, 2007

The Face on Mars: New Hires Image Shows It’s Just a Hill

Sorry guys, it’s just a mountain, or hill (since I live in Colorado anything less than 14,000 feet is a hill). Earlier this week the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team released this image of the Cydonia region of Mars.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
This image was taken on April 5th, 2007.
The camera that took this […]

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March 30th, 2007

Jupiter’s Spin Produces 10 Million Volts Around its Poles

Here is a stunning image taken in November 1998 with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). It is an ultraviolet image of auroras over the north pole of Jupiter.

Image Credit: ESA
It turns out that the auroras on Jupiter are larger than our entire planet. Here’s a composite image of a Hubble […]

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March 30th, 2007

Solar Plasma Following Magnetic Field Lines

Some very good friends of mine have been working on the Solar-B mission and I’ve been quite impressed with the images coming out. I haven’t seen a lot of bloggers posting images from this spacecraft, so I thought I’d provide one.
Below is an image of the solar chromosphere, a region just above what is […]

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