Sometimes it is good too get the big picture The Planets Today : A live view of the solar system The Planets Today : A live view of the solar system The planets today shows you where the planets are n

Went over to Jim Tallman's place out in Chesapeake tonight as he has a low western horizon. Actually he has a superb east and southern sky too. The goal this evening was to see the thin crescent Venus

Professor Leah Flax sent us an email informing us that the TCC campus has been closed to everyone until at least Jan 18th due to COVID. The TCC president will reevaluate the situation then, but as of

The Webb heat shield deployment (as shown here https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html ) has been stopped at the step for day 6 for about 3 days now. Here’s why: https://www.cbsnews.

The James Webb’s first image is back: https://i.redd.it/enppk11y8y781.jpg Happy New Year everyone! Ted

For Webb watchers try this site: Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb 'WhereIsWebb' shows the status of Webb on its journey to L2 orbit. The page constantly updates as Webb travels, ...

If you get a chance to look, the sun today has a complete catalog of what you can see on the sun. Big prominence, many smaller ones filaments, numerous hot spots and sun spot groups. Things are defini

A beautiful evening last night. Got some time in Ha on IC443 or the Jellyfish Nebula. Haven't imaged this in quite awhile. I had a hard time fitting it all into the field of view. Cheers Ian IC443

I was treated to what will probably be my last view of Comet Leonard last night. The horizon in my yard is obstructed by trees to see it so I carried a pair of 12x50 binoculars in my bicycle saddle ba

After a very busy Christmas Day I set up my grab and go refractor since several weather apps mentioned excellent seeing. Boy, were they wrong. It was some of the worst seeing I've seen in a long time.

As a Christmas present, I am giving you a wonderful grouping of sunspots. Merry Christmas to all. Kent B

We (and NASA) got a Christmas present, with a successful "textbook" launch of the long-swords James Webb Space Telescope..

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Last night the southwest limb of the moon was well placed to observe the edges of the Oriental Basin, a classic far side basin that is the best example of an unaltered impact basin. Prior to orbiter i

Well its Christmas and I couldn't help but add a little holiday cheer to my image from last night. Here's NGC1807 and NGC1817 a couple of open clusters near Taurus. The pair are sometimes referred to

I was actually able to see Comet Leonard tonight despite no expectation of actually doing it. The big news was, at twilight, Kent and I noticed that the comet just might be reachable very low down fro

Well, the weather was very nice here and I had a chance to get set up for some imaging after dinner before the moon came up. Lucky for me Orion was coming up over the trees to the east and I was able

There is quite a bit of solar activity. Perhaps it’s a Christmas present. If you’re looking in white light filtering, there are at least 15 groups of small sunspots. If you’re looking in H- alpha ligh

If possible in the next couple of days the sun is worth a look in white light. A fine row of sunspots has appeared toward the equator. This is where they move to as the solar cycle ramps up. Quite a f

I don't know but I think we will not get a chance to say good bye to comet Leonard in the evening. Weather does not look good and it gets lower every night. I think in three days it won't matter what