Jenny Jump Observing Session, Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Reports by Bart Fried, Katherine Troche from Bart: AAA members Kat Troche and Jordy Perez joined me
To paraphrase Forest Gump, mishaps occur. The second law of thermodynamics assures that you can expect a certain level of random breakdowns over time. But
Distances in space are very difficult to measure accurately because of the extreme scales and limited practical resources available for space exploration. As a result,
I finally got to image two nights of data from my observatory in New Mexico. I chose M16, the Eagle nebula, visible above the southern
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than
from Michael O’Gara At the annual meeting it was announced that former Board Member and long-time Eyepiece editor Dan Harrison had passed away on April
We are deeply saddened to report that Alan J. Rude, 81, longtime AAA member and past Editor-in-Chief of Eyepiece, succumbed to CoVid-19 (SARS CoV-2) on
I got up early (3:50am alarm clock for 4:07am moonrise) to photograph Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and waning crescent Moon rising early morning – taking advantage
Fifty years ago, the Apollo 13 mission became the seventh crewed mission of the Apollo Space Program, number eight if you included Apollo One, which
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