By Patrick L. Barry and Dr. Tony Phillips About 900 light years from here is a rocky planet not much bigger than Earth. It goes around its star once every hundred days, a trifle fast, but not too different from a standard Earth-year. At least two and possibly three other planets circle the [...]
Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission of the author from his website www.thecomethunter.com Please visit Don’s website for updates. To see this article with photos, view the Classic Observer or visit Don’s website. (Don made his 11th comet discovery Tuesday, March 23. For those who don’t know, SVAS member Don Macholz is America’s premiere [...]
Forrest Lockhart In the first Meridian article last month, I described the observing plan and the scopes to be used for ferreting out interesting objects appearing at or near the meridian that month. There was only one E-mail response to my request for celestial targets for April, but it turned out to be a good [...]
“Urban Astronomy”: A Great Night for DSOs Margo Schulter ["Urban Astronomy" is my project to encourage the observing of Deep Sky Objects (DSO's) in urban or suburban settings, with a due acknowledgment that these objects will, of course, be yet more impressive in darker skies. Questions or comments by e-mail are warmly invited.] Saturday night [...]
SUPERNOVAE – SOME OF THE BRIGHTEST STARS AROUND As any amateur astronomer worth their salt knows: Supernovae are enormous explosions that destroy an entire star. Because of this explosion, supernovae are much brighter than their surrounding star companions. Their luminosity makes them conspicuous, and the energy they emit makes them interesting to scientists. But supernovae are quite [...]
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