David Dickinson
Moonspotting-A Guide to Observing the Moons of the Solar System
Like splitting double stars, hunting for the faint lesser known moons of the solar system offers a supreme challenge for…
Catch a Fine Lunar Planetary Grouping This Weekend
Phew! Our eyes and thoughts have been cast so far out into the outer reaches of the solar system following…
Naming Pluto: Christening Features on Brave New Worlds
‘Here be Dragons…’ read the inscriptions of old maps used by early seafaring explorers. Such maps were crude, and often…
Is Kapteyn B Not to Be?
Are the ancient planets discovered around Kapteyn’s Star for real? As the saying goes, all that glitters isn’t gold, and…
Catching Earth at Aphelion
Do you feel a little… distant today? The day after the 4th of July weekend brings with it the promise…
See Pluto for Yourself Ahead of New Horizons’ Historic Encounter
Are you ready for July? The big ticket space event of the year is coming right up, as NASA’s New…
A Brief History of Nukes in Space
In just a few short weeks, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will make its historic flyby of Pluto and its moons.…
About Time: Is the June 30th Leap Second the Last?
The month of June 2015 is just a tad longer than usual… but not for the reason you’ve been told.…
Iridium NEXT Set to Begin Deployment This Year
The skies, they are uh changin’… I remember reading in Astronomy magazine waaaay back in the late 1990s (in those…
Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina: A Preview for Act I
Live in (or planning on visiting) the southern hemisphere soon? A first time visitor to the inner solar system is…