” Big Bear Lake in the Sierras, 6500 feet up (2000 feet higher than you can get in the UK without an aircraft), has an excellent night sky, stabilised by the water of the artificial lake “
The Dark Sky
‘The Orkney Sky At Night’
The Orkney International Science Festival produced this year an excellent online talk by Eric Walker ( @AstroHighlander ) on ‘The Orkney Sky At Night’ .
Variable Stars
” in some old maps the Gorgon’s Head is represented by the beautiful double cluster of stars in the Milky Way between Perseus and Cassiopeia.”
The Sky Above You – September 2022
“The September Full Moon, the Harvest Moon, will be on September 10th.”
The Autumn Stars
“Arcturus, the brightest star in Boötes, the Herdsman, is one of the brightest stars in the sky, the very brightest north of the Ecliptic, and was accorded a special role in the astrology of the ancient world.”
A Watery World Discovered
Artistic rendition of the exoplanet TOI-1452 b, a small planet that may be entirely covered in a deep ocean. Image credit: Benoit Gougeon, Université de Montréal
‘Watching Stellar Evolution In Real Time”: When Bettlegeuse Blew Its Top
“We’ve never before seen a huge mass ejection of the surface of a star. ” Andrea Dupree of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Eyewitness to History (3) : Challenger Liftoff, STS-41G, October 1984
Gene Roddenberry (left), Dr. Brian O’Leary (centre), Deke Slayton (right), View from Earth conference dinner, July 31, 1984
Eyewitness to History (2): Discovery Landing, STS-41D, September 5th, 1984
“In summer 1979, I was back at Kennedy Space Centre.”
The Sky Above You – August 2022
“The Moon will be Full on August 13th, which will be a Supermoon, at Full when at its nearest to Earth (perigee), unfortunately right at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.”
