I had a really great time with fellow NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador and Raleigh Astronomy member Doug Lively in supporting Moon Zoom, a virtual observing session of the Moon on Monday evening as part of Astronomy Days at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science @naturalsciences. Make sure to check Read more…
There have been a lot of headlines lately about the Christmas Star or the Star of Bethlehem being visible on Dec 21st, the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. However, this event is not stellar in nature but rather the conjunction in the sky of the planets Jupiter and Saturn. Read more…
In early 2019, in anticipation of all the celebrations commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, I prepared a talk on the rocket that took us to the moon, the might Saturn V. You’ll see various previous posts in my blog with photos and links to Read more…
I spent a couple of hours with other members of the Raleigh Astronomy Club last night, trying out socially distant observing where by we set up our respective telescopes in our own yards and shared views, observations and general chatting via Zoom. Here are few of the EAA (electronically assisted Read more…
Back on Apr 24, I participated in a Nationwide Star Party live streaming event. Below is a link to the YouTube video of that event. I begin my sharing my views thru my telescope at around 1 hour 12 mins into the recording. To view the entire video, click on Read more…
I set up my Hydrogen Alpha telescope (Lunt LS60ThaPTc B1200d2) atop my Celestron CG-5 Advanced GT mount for live streaming on Facebook. This was my first attempt at Live Streaming telescopic views on Facebook and the first time I’ve tried with my H-Alpha scope. I tried to switch from my Read more…