Current Astronomy News

  • Sunset Triangle – May 23 2013

    Check out something cool to see at sunset

  • Recent New Zealand daylight meteor?

    From Dave Morgan, From Dr. Steve Kerr, expatriate Winston-Salem native and former FAS Secretary, who now lives in Dunedin, NZ sends this daylight meteor report. Check out the details Full screenshots provided below  

  • Chelyabinsk Meteor (02.15.13) – informational weblinks

    From Jeff Poplin – NASA revises (upward) preliminary estimates: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html UMSF forum pages about the event: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5524&st=285 Lots of good comments from knowledgeable folks… Interesting link used by one poster to estimate impact effects: http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/ Phil Plait’s update: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/russian_meteorite_fragment_may_have_fallen_in_frozen_lake.html Meteosat-9 images showing contrail shadow on ground! First pics I’ve seen of possible fragments. http://74.mvd.ru/news/item/845855/ (need…

  • 1913 Great Meteor Procession

    On 2/8/2013 11:16 PM David Morgan wrote: This is wild: 1913 Great Meteor Procession I like the temporary orbit hypothesis. Indeed! Extraordinary event. What I find peculiar is the reports of the bright, star-like object seen during the middle of the display. “Several report that near the middle of the great procession was a fine…

  • ScienceCasts: A Naked-Eye Comet in March 2013

    Comet Panstarr Coming in March 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZlenAvqLCI

  • Occultation Alert

    Attention Occultation Alert  How many of us have seen a star occulted by an asteroid? It is kind of like watching a solar eclipse but in miniature, it is the passing of an asteroid in front of a star. This one occurs in the constelation of Auriga. On Friday Feb. 22, 2013 at 02:25UT (09:25pm…

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  • Buddy’s Observation List

    Buddy’s Observation List September 2010 Objects located between 20:00 and 22:00 hours of Right Ascension. These objects are located near the meridian on Sept. 1 at 10:20 pm and on Sept. 30 at 8:30 pm Ten Telescopic Deep-Sky Objects Object Type Con. R.A. Dec. Mag. Size PSA M 2 GC AQR 21h33.5m -00d 49m 6.5m…