Like millions of Americans, I traveled to the Path of Totality to view the view the Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21st, 2017. It was an awesome event that I shared with my youngest son and two other Raleigh Astronomy Club members are their respective families as well as Read more…
There is quite a bit of excitement about that the upcoming Great American Solar Eclipse next week. So much so that 2 local retirement communities reached out to me to come talk to their residents about the Solar Eclipse. In both cases, the rooms were packed, easily 80 plus people Read more…
Unfortunately the Supermoon Eclipse was almost completely obscured by cloud cover here in the Raleigh area of North Carolina. However at times the cloud cover was thin enough to get a glimpse of the eclipse. Using my Astro-Video Systems MK-IV video astronomy camera, mounted on Explore Scientific AR102 refractor on Read more…
On Thursday October 23, 2014, most of North America was treated to a partial solar eclipse. A partial eclipse is when the moon’s alignment between the earth and sun only blocks a portion of the sun from the view point of an observer on Earth. For those of us along Read more…