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Apollo 16 – Landing in the Descartes Highlands

On this day, April 16th, Apollo 16 was launched 50 years ago. This was the fifth exploratory mission to the surface of the moon. The

Tom Haeberle April 1, 2022

Conjunctions and Calendric Quagmires

April Fools to you, Black Moon! Oooohhh! Yes, there is a Black New Moon next month and just like a Calendar Blue Full Moon, being

Tom Haeberle March 1, 2022

How Mariner IX Might Have Saved Mars 50 Years Ago

50th Anniversary This year marks the 50th anniversary of what had been a major step towards exploring the planet Mars. The heroic spacecraft Mariner IX

Tom Haeberle December 2, 2021

Solar [Partial] Eclipse ASE2021 Post Review

Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior, Michigan The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. The lake, it

Tom Haeberle September 16, 2021

Apollo 15’s Heroic Mission to Hadley Rille

As long as I can remember, I have always had an interest in the space program. In the summer of 1971, the Apollo Moon program

Tom Haeberle September 15, 2021

Hell Gate’s Devil-Horned Eclipse

If you haven’t heard by now, there will be an annular eclipse this June 10th, or Ring of Fire as witnessed by some Canadians in

Tom Haeberle June 5, 2021

Eclipses to Come in Twenty Twenty-One: On This Planet and Out of This World

Before there was the Great American Eclipse of 2017, there was really nothing much to speak of as far as seeing a solar eclipse from

Tom Haeberle May 2, 2021

The Story of Orion

I took some quick and easy shots on a cold and gusty Long Island winter night at the Custer Institute last month. Custer is Long

Tom Haeberle March 1, 2021

Apollo XIV – Straight As a Die and Flying Right – 50th Anniversary

Alan Shepard’s triumphant return to outer space on Apollo 14 after ten years since his historic flight in the Mercury program was remarkable. Despite having

Tom Haeberle February 2, 2021

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