Being held on September 10-12 for it’s 20th year, CSP-20 is planned to be the best ever!
We will be back under dark skies in Ashford, Connecticut with special guests, Carolyn Shoemaker, and David Levy.
Registration is now open to secure a place to meet and greet these famous astronomers, and hear their presentations.
For more information go to the Astronomical Society of [...]
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Posted in Science, Space, astrophotography on Apr 26th, 2010
Good timing, great weather, and luck permitted me not only to see STS-131 land at Kennedy Space Center, but to see an Air Force “Top Secret” rocket launch on April 22nd.
A unmanned reusable spaceplane was launched into orbit aboard an 196 foot tall Atlas 5 rocket at 7:52pm under perfect launch conditions.
Built by Boeing Phantom [...]
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Posted in Science, astrophotography on Mar 20th, 2010
The ISS had another orbit over Connecticut last night (3-19-10). This time passing from Northwest to Southeast just before 8:00pm. The weather did not cooperate like it did the last time. This time we had some high level clouds in the area which hampered the clarity of the image. It was still great to watch it fly [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, Science, Space on Mar 3rd, 2010
A friend in Washington D.C. mailed me a stack of photos of the early days of space exploration in the United States. They are very interesting to see how we looked at space in the 1950’s and 1960’s. I will start off this “Space retrospective” series that I will post here intermittently, with two photographs of “Sidewalk Astronomers” [...]
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Posted in Moon, Science, astrophotography on Nov 30th, 2009
As promised here is the video I shot with the new Nikon D300s camera. Same subject as yesterday, the moon. Shot at 990mm with my Vixen Refractor Telescope, and processed in Final Cut Pro, saved as a Quicktime file and uploaded to Vimeo. The zoom into the crater Tycho was done in Final Cut Pro, [...]
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You get this first if it’s kind from NASA. It is an image the Crab Nebula with combined information from the Chandra X-Ray Telescope, Hubble, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. This very deep image shows that the Crab Nebula is producing energy equal to 100,000 suns. Photo courtesy of NASA.
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Posted in Astronomy, Meterology, Science, clouds on Nov 23rd, 2009
I was lucky enough to have a few images on TV last week! Check out the video of the morning weather forecast by Joe Furey.
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Posted in Science, Space, Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2009
Scores of attendees at the Connecticut Star party in Ashford, Connecticut were treated to a real UFO sighting at approximately 7:55pm Saturday night. While darkeness was setting in a bright, very bright cone of light was expanding in the southwest. It grew brighter and larger to the size larger than the full moon for about [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, Science, public outreach on Aug 4th, 2009
From a Windsor Locks Public Library press release.
View the annual Perseids Meteor Shower from the library lawn on August 8th! JPL/NASA Solar System Ambassador Bill Fournier will provide a hands-on demonstration of telescope use and guided viewing of the meteor shower beginning at 7:00 PM. Bring your telescope or binoculars, a lawn chair, bug repellent, [...]
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It was a quick couple of days off from work, but I managed to squeeze in something I always wanted to do. I finally got to do some astronomy from Mt Washington, in New Hampshire.
It was two years ago when I had chance to spend four days and three nights at the Mt. Washington Observatory as part of several [...]
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