2010-01-19 - Movie of Saturn Moon Passing through Gap in Ring Shadows

Now this took some careful planning. The pictures were taken before-during-and after the sunlight coming through the Cassini division in Saturn's rings passed over the moon Janus....

2009-11-03 - Cassini's 7th Enceladus Flyby Images

The NASA Saturn orbiting spacecraft Cassini flew by Saturn's arguably most interesting moon Enceladus for the 7th time on November 2, 2009....

2009-10-27 - Jupiter and Moon Astrophotography Shoot

I had the Meade 70mm refractor telescope for awhile, and I also have a Nikon D40 digital SLR camera, so I only needed to connect the two in order to get some astrophotography shots*....

2009-10-13 - Images of LCROSS Impact

Some preliminary results showing the flash and thermal signature of the LCROSS Centaur impact have been posted online....

2009-10-09 - LCROSS Lunar Impacts Viewing a Disappointment

If you got up earlier than usual to watch the LCROSS spacecraft impacts live online, or even with a 10+ inch telescope, you might be regretting the sacrifice of sleep because the impact did not produce the expected "bang"....

2009-10-08 - Watch LCROSS Moon Impact Live

The NASA Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite's (LCROSS) Centaur upper stage is on a collision course for a crater near the South-pole of the moon called Cabeus after midnight tonight (which will be the early morning of Oct 9, 2009)....

2009-09-30 - Chinese Moon Festival 2009

The Chinese Moon Festival this year occurs on October 5th. How is the date of the Mid-autumn festival determined?...

2009-09-19 - LCROSS Impact on the Moon Visible from Western Hemisphere

Shortly after the launch of the NASA LRO/LCROSS spacecrafts from Florida on June 18, 2009, I checked to see if the moon would be in North America's part of the sky at the time of the estimated impact of LCROSS into the surface of the moon....

2009-05-22 - Winning Hubble Telescope Contest Target

Towards the end of January I wrote a post about the contest that NASA held online to vote...

2009-05-20 - Orion® Astrophotography Webinar

I receive emails from Orion® Telescopes & Binoculars every so often (ever since I made a purchase...

2009-05-17 - If you are lucky, see Shuttle Mission STS-125

As you are aware, Space Shuttle mission STS-125 is currently orbiting high above the E...

2009-05-16 - Double Moon Shadow Transit across Jupiter

Tonight Jupiter's Galileon moons Callisto and Io will transit the disk of Jupiter...

2009-05-14 - Cassini Website Wins Webby Science Award

I am a few days behind the curve reporting this, but it is an honorable mention. The...

2009-05-13 - See Venus during the Daytime

Just in case you're one of those people who need to sleep at night, there is...

2009-03-20 - NASA Mission Madness Contest

NASA's TV program NASA Edge is holding a contest to democratically elect the public's favorite "space" mission....

2009-03-07 - Saturn Opposition

The planet Saturn will be in opposition March 8, 2009. Oppos...

2009-02-27 - Comet Lulin's Path

Here is an addition to the previous post that I wrote about the Comet Lulin....

2009-02-07 - Extrasolar planet obscuring Big Dipper star

The star HD 80606, which is one star in a binary star system...

2009-02-06 - Beginning of the Universe

Current theory holds that the universe is approximately 13.7...

2009-02-02 - Penumbral Eclipse of the Moon, Feb 9th

The moon will be passing through the penumbra of Earth's sha...

2009-01-29 - Barack Obama Addresses NASA on Day of Remembrance

President Barack Obama addressed NASA employees today in an ...

2009-01-28 - Make Hubble Your Telescope

That's right. As part of the International Year of Astronomy...

2009-01-26 - Temporary NASA Leaders Appointed by Obama

Ok, it's not astronomical out-of-this-world, but NASA does e...

2009-01-21 - Approaching Opposition with Asteroid Ceres

The asteroid Ceres (also known as "1 Ceres") is the largest ...

2009-01-18 - New Improved BRT Image Post-Processing

Although the online Bradford Robotic Telescope is currently ...

2009-01-01 - Watch for the Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin)

In February and March of this year (2009), this comet C/2007...

2008-12-18 - Lost Comet 85P/Boethin

If you are so inclined to try and find the "lost" comet 85P/...

2008-12-11 - Stars orbiting black hole at Milky Way's center

The results of a very exciting near-infrared study of the Mi...

2008-12-01 - Triangle of Jupiter, Venus and Crescent Moon

Tonight, hope that the sky is clear and make a point of goin...

2008-10-31 - Equatorial Telescope Mount

I have not written a post in a good while, because the eleva...

2008-06-10 - Mars zips by Saturn, Best time to see Jupiter

In the first week of July, Mars will be moving to the east a...

2008-06-06 - Moon passes by Mars and Saturn

Tomorrow night the moon will be closely crossing paths with...

2008-05-23 - Fuzzy Image of Saturn with Black Center

The third image I have received back from the Bradford Robot...

2008-05-13 - Saturn and its moons

Well, I have received my 2nd image from the Bradford Robotic...

2008-04-22 - Bradford Robotic Telescope

The Bradford Robotic Telescope (BRT) is a free online, publi...

2008-02-19 - Total Lunar Eclipse on Feb 20th

Discovery News Link. The moon will be shadowed b...

2008-02-01 - Venus Visually Close to Jupiter

I noticed a couple mornings ago that the two planets Venus a...

2008-01-30 - Near-Earth Asteroid 2007 TU-24

The asteroid 2007 TU-24 recently passed by us at only 1.4 ti...