Quite a spring this 2024 has given us! We started with a fabulous total solar eclipse, and now a fabulous auroral storm. The last great storm was on Halloween of 2003, two decades ago (and two solar cycles ago!). This one was not to be missed. The week started out with the appearance of the... Continue Reading →
There are a lot of sites out there to help you get going with eclipse planning this time around. This will give you a lot of links and go-to sites for that information. Happy eclipse viewing! Rule one about solar eclipses is SAFE OBSERVING. Some of the sites on this list will have their own... Continue Reading →
Mount Type: German Equatorial Instrument Capacity: 17 kg. (37.5 pounds) Weight of equatorial head without counterweights: 16.5 kg. The EM-200 Temma 3 is the most recent update/upgrade for the Takahashi EM-200 series of mounts. Having not seen a slew of reviews on the net about it, I decided to get one done. At first glance,... Continue Reading →
Not eclipses are total. Many are partial, and some are annular. An annular eclipse takes place when the angular size of the Moon in the sky is smaller than the angular size of the Sun in the sky. What makes this happen? Distances! The further away something is from your vantage point, the smaller is... Continue Reading →
Each will open in a new browser tab. Where is Webb? Updates on the project & instrument status and timeline. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html NASA's JWST main page: https://jwst.nasa.gov/index.html JWST Blog with latest and greatest news and updates: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/ JWST Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/NASAWebb JWST News Posts: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/news.html Flickr Account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/ JWST Image Resources: https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images JWST YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAWebbTelescope... Continue Reading →
