Thursday night I spent some time with fellow RAC members Mark L.and Ian H. (separately) while at the Staunton River Star Party. We were looking through my 8” SCT for the super nova SN2012aw that had been detected last week in the Leo galaxy, M95. After much back and forth Read more…
On Tuesday November 8th, 2011 asteroid 2005 YU55 which is about the size of an aircraft carrier buzzed the Earth within 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers). As a point of reference, our moon is 238,000 miles away! Even though asteroids of this size pass by Earth frequently, the last time a Read more…
My first Blog entry will be devoted to the 40th Anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. It is quite fitting that this week NASA released pictures of the Apollo landing sites taken by the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter): http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html My favorite picture is of the Apollo 14 landing site; Read more…