Tues. 02.28.17 – Last evening I went out to my photography corner of Brockman Lane and Dixon Lane*, so that I could take photos of the New Moon as it set behind Mt. Tom to the west. I used the US Navy Observatory Moon rise and set calculator to figure out when it would set and when civil twilight would be so I could take the above new moon photo and attempt to take a photo of the Mars & Uranus conjunction…
Tag: Astronomy
Sunday Tidbits : The First 2017 Edition
:: A few Sunday Tidbits for you :: A lovely flash fiction story on what Cassandra also saw that she did not tell the…
Dusk Tonight or The Almost Super Moon
Sun 11.13.16 – Late this afternoon, I drove down to the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve Station at the corner of Bolsa Chica Ave and…
Cassiopeia and the Red Hill Cinder Cone
Thurs 06.09.16 – Photo of the Red Hill Cinder Cone and the northern sky with Cassiopeia the Constellation taken by Ms. Jen with her…
The Pre-Dawn Waning Crescent Moon Conjunct Mars and Jupiter, with Venus and Regulus
Fri 10.09.15 – Yesterday morning we had a pre-dawn cloudy conjunction of the waning crescent moon with Venus, this morning’s pre-dawn show was the…
Venus, Jupiter, and the Crescent Moon on the horizon
07.17.15 – The crescent moon is very low on the horizon just above the queen palm trees in the center right of the photo,…
Last Night’s Sky
Thurs 05.28.15 – Last evening just before 9pm, I took myself to the dock at the La Paz County Park near the Buckskin Fire…
Venus and Other Planets in the Evening Sky from Larry Koehn
Venus in the evening sky 45 minutes after sunset from December 2014 through August 2015 from LarryKoehn on Vimeo. Larry Koehn has created a…
The Star of Bethlehem: Astronomy Theories
Several sites I visited today had links to various astronomical theories on the Star of Bethlehem, thus in the spirit of the season, I…
Happy MidSummer Night!
I will be on an airplane flying from Los Angeles to Stuttgart, Germany, most likely somewhere over northern Canada when the official summer solstice…
Happy Longest Day of the Year!
According to the nice folk at the US Navy Observatory, today, June 20, 2008 at 23:59 UT will be the Summer Solstice. To most…