Observing
Sunday Night: Getting Ready For a ‘Super-Harvest-Blood-Moon Total Lunar Eclipse’
So, heard the one about this weekend’s impending ‘Super-Harvest-Blood-Moon eclipse?’ Yeah, us too. Have no fear; fortunately for humanity, the…
Watch This Amazing Video of an Exoplanet in Motion
Exoplanet Beta Pic b orbiting Beta Pictoris from Dunlap Institute on Vimeo. Just. Wow. The motion of an alien world,…
See a Glowing ‘Honey Moon’ and Unique Star Trails in New Night Sky Timelapse
The "stars" of a new 3-minute timelapse are some very unique star trails and a glowing fireball that is actually…
Mars Meets the King of the Beasts
I was up before dawn today hoping to find the returning comet 205P/Giacobini and a faint new supernova in the…
Adventures With Starblinker
Observational astronomy is a study in patience. Since the introduction of the telescope over four centuries ago, steely-eyed observers have…
10 Years of Haumea
Remember the neat tidy solar system of the 20th century? As a child of the 1970s, we remember orderly planets,…
A Minor Lunar Standstill for 2015
Think you know the Moon? Whether you love our natural neighbor in space for the lunar and solar eclipses it…
Kicking Off Eclipse Season: Our Guide to the September 13th Partial Solar Eclipse
Eclipse season 2 of 2 for 2015 is nigh this weekend, book-ended by a partial solar eclipse on September 13th,…
Watch the Moon Occult Aldebaran This Weekend
How about that perigee Full Moon this past weekend? Thus begins ‘Supermoon season’ for 2015, as this month’s Full Moon…