by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 28, 2015 | San Diego Astronomy, The Sky Tonight
I was outside Thursday evening, and thought that the waxing gibbons Moon seemed larger than normal. I was in a hurry, thou b, and just kept moving. Well, now we know WHY that moon seemed much larger than normal...
by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 24, 2015 | Telescopes and Astronomy Gear, Telescopes and Missions, The Sky Tonight
Courtesy of the American Astronomical Society, this picture shows NGC 1140 in Eridanus undergoing a starbust. It is 60 million light years away, making it pretty close in astronomical terms. This image is from the Hubble Space Telescope and was released in July, 2015....
by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 23, 2015 | San Diego Astronomy, Telescopes and Missions, The Sky Tonight
Hubble Space Telescope Pillars of Creation new image Stellar Nursery delights once again In 1997, the world sat breathless as the Hubble Space Telescope released the very famous image entitled the Pillars of Creation. A stellar nursery, the Pillars of Creation is a...
by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 21, 2015 | San Diego Astronomy, Stargazing, Telescopes and Astronomy Gear, Telescopes and Missions, Telescopes and Observing Equipment, The Sky Tonight
With so many telescopes here in America and the Northern Hemisphere, it is easy to forget that there is a whole other world out there in the Southern latitudes which we cannot view. My youngest sister lived in Australia for a few years and I, unfortunately, was unable...
by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 21, 2015 | San Diego Astronomy, The Sky Tonight
I love how the Milky Way makes an arc across the sky. I have never seen that, and I don’t think it is possible in the Northern Hemisphere. ALMA is the Atacama Large Millimeters Array. It rests high in the Andes mountains at an elevation of about 18,000 feet. The...
by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 21, 2015 | San Diego Astronomy, Telescopes and Missions, Telescopes and Observing Equipment, The Sky Tonight
The European Southern Observatory just released a photo and story about the President of the Czech Republic visiting there several years ago. He got to view NGC 3244, in Antlia, far into the Southern Hemisphere. It is truly unfortunate that this galaxy is not visible...
