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Mercury – hardly ever visible when it is truly dark
by tte-77 Mercury profile from Mariner - Credit: NASA In his book “The Solar System and Back” (Doubleday, 1970), famed science writer Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) argued that the planet Mercury: “… is...
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Eclipse season for the Solar Dynamics Observatory
by tte-77 Eclipse season begins from the vantage point in space of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - Credit: NASA The beginning of the eclipse season begins from the vantage point in space of NASA’s...
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Astronomy Events – September 2012
by yaska77 The evenings are drawing in again and already it’s time for another of our monthly guides! Where is the year going? We were very lucky with the Perseid meteor shower last month (despite a...
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Astronomy Events – September 2013
by yaska77 September is usually a good month for us for observing. It’s not so cold your fingers freeze, but it is dark enough earlier in the evening now to get some good stargazing in before finally...
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Astronomy Events – September 2014
by yaska77 Don’t get us wrong, we love summertime but we often find we’re busier doing things other than astronomy in the evenings. So as the nights start to draw in and things are cooling down, we...
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Astronomy Events – September 2015
by yaska77 Summer obviously found somewhere better to be this year, after promising early hints of it looking to impose itself for a long stay. Plans of weekends spent outdoors with the BBQ going...
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Blood Moon, Supermoon, total Eclipse
by Adam Welbourn No you’re not seeing things, this isn’t our upcoming monthly guide for October! Being an amateur astronomer from the UK, more often than not I’m resigned to the fact that a lot of...
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