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Astronomy Buff

Archive for the ‘planets’ Category

February 5th, 2008

Mercury MESSENGER Website is Really Cool

I missed the Flyby of the MESSENGER spacecraft as it flew by Mercury last month. I looked at the pictures and read a few news releases after the fact, but I missed all the real-time updates that were coming out of NASA/JPL.
It turns out that I needn’t have worried. I just went through […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

June 17th, 2007

Lunar Occulation of Venus on June 18th

Venus has been really amazing to watch in the western sky lately. From Colorado, it has been a blazing pinpoint of light high above the mountains after sunset. Because of the position of Venus in its orbit relative to ours, this has been an extraordinarily good time to view Venus in a telescope […]

By Tony -- 1 comment

June 16th, 2007

Pluto isn’t even the biggest non-planet

This whole Pluto business cracks me up. I really don’t give a fig what the damn thing is called, but every time someone finds out something new about Pluto that affects it’s status and what we call it, it makes the news.
I was listening to NPR on Thursday when it was mentioned on one […]

By Tony -- 3 comments

May 3rd, 2007

Gliese 581: Über Earth

I’m a real contrarian, I know this. as do many who have to interact with me on a regular basis. Some find it endearing, most just find it annoying.
When I started this blog, I promised myself that I wouldn’t write about what everyone else was writing about. I was going to be different. […]

By Tony -- 7 comments

April 2nd, 2007

It’s a Dead Heat: People are Split About Pluto

Have you voted in my poll? No? That means you can’t see the results showing that just as many people don’t give a sh*t whether Pluto is called a planet as there are people that do.
I don’t care what we call Pluto, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s out there and that […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

February 3rd, 2007

Saturn is the Brightest it will be for Years

Now is an excellent time to get out those telescopes and watch Saturn. The Earth approaches opposition to it on February 10th. Opposition is a very favorable alignment of two planets, when they are at their closest. This is the closest we’ll get to Saturn for a while, so it’s really worth […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

February 2nd, 2007

Saturn is Checking Out the Moon’s Backside Tonight

I know, these headlines are over the top aren’t they? Whatever am I going to do with me? At least it’s kinda relevant (if not a little strange) because this is February, the month of love and oogling, and there’s some serious oogling going on between Saturn and the Moon right now. […]

By Tony -- 3 comments

January 26th, 2007

Saturn From Above

Emily from the Planetary Society Weblog has put together this amazing mosaic of Saturn as viewed from above. She’s taken images from the Cassini spacecraft and manually assembled them into this image:

Photo Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Emily Lakdawalla

Excellent work. This is a truly unique view of Saturn, it is […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

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