Friday 30th September 8.30pm.
Stronsay Stargazing Night
The Dark Sky: Part 2
” Oh where is the night sky that I used to know” Duncan Lunan
The Dark Sky
” 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 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’ .
Capturing New Worlds
For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system.
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.”
‘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.
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.”
