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I just read this good New Scientist article on the Geminids and it inspired a few thoughts of my own.
Reminder: this starts tonight around 10pm in the U.S. (give or take a couple of hours, just make sure you’re out by midnight).
The Geminids are among the best meteor showers for two main reasons: […]
Well, here I am in rainy Illinois (no, that’s not me in the picture at left) and if the forecast for this area holds, I’m going to be sitting underneath lots of clouds while the Geminds fly overhead.
Just a reminder, they will peak tomorrow night starting around 10:30pm or so Eastern time and it will […]
Image Credit: Marchetype
The clean, cold, crisp nights of winter are THE best for observing. The fact that here in the northern hemisphere we get more starlight hours helps too. This is the season of the amateur astronomer.
At no point in the year will we get clearer, stable skies. The boiling atmosphere […]
The Geminid meteor shower is coming up in a little over a week.
On December 13th at around 10pm or so, start looking towards the constellation Gemini to see what promises to be the best meteor shower of the year.
Here’s where to look (click on it to see a bigger one):
Geminids will start around 10:30pm December […]
I love my Coronado PST Halpha telescope. I also love my new iOptron mount that guides it. Now I wish the Sun would cooperate and give me something a little more interesting to look at.
As you may know, the Sun has an 11 year activity cycle. During its maximum, you can see […]
I usually consider the time around the autumnal equinox as the start of my observing season. The skies are getting steadier because the temperatures are dropping, the nights are getting longer and, generally, the skies have fewer clouds in the early evening hours.
In Colorado, the spring and summer months are have terrible sky conditions; […]
Al Gore would not approve
Well, at least that’s how I’m justifying the purchase. I recently acquired this RV from a friend who just wanted to get rid of it. I had used it on road trips in the past (but that was when gas was $1.50 a gallon) and really enjoyed it.
I bought […]
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 […]
This Saturday’s rare meteor shower has the potential to be very bright and interesting and given that it has only occurred about three times before (that we know of), it’s worth checking out.
Unfortunately, only people in the western part of the U.S. (and Alaska and Hawai’i), western Canada and Mexico are going to be able […]
I took my vidya camera outside last night to see how the lunar eclipse would look on video tape. Here’s the raw video footage:
For some reason, the player sticks six seconds into the thing, just slide the slider over a bit and it’ll start back up, there must be something strange with the […]
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