Credit: SpaceX.com Back in February, SpaceX launched 49 Starlink satellites in the usual cluster. At the same time, two minor...
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An article on Space.com got me thinking about an experiment for the fall:https://www.space.com/31532-black-hole-visible-light-telescope-discovery.html Visible Light from a Black Hole Spotted...
Andrew L Johnson started the Free Mag 7 Star Atlas Project on his personal web site, but it proved too...
Yuexiao Shen will present his West Texas Observatory project on the Astronomy Imaging Channel (TAIC) on Sunday April, 17th (9:30...
As many members know, I had a controller die last star party. While reloading my spare controller, I found I...
At a recent star party, my original keypad on my scope died and I had to switch to a spare....
Ansiaux (1729—1786) (??), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Charles Messier (1730-1817) was a French astronomer and comet hunter. He discovered...
The presentation for the February meeting was on Messier Marathon by Tom Heisey. I covered the history of Charles Messier...
NEO Risk and Mitigation In Part I of this series, we discovered the asteroid Apophis' discovery and media furor that...
Presentation by Tom Heisey on the Perseverance rover on Mars. In particular, I concentrated on the engineering behind the sample...
