Luna Y Marte

Here in the Northwest, we don’t yet know if our intermittent clouds will allow us to see Mars’ closest approach to our planet for the next 15 years. This occurs before sunrise on October 6th, 2020. Mars has been blazing in the night sky and will continue to do so for weeks, but Tuesday is […]

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Waxing Wednesday

Tonight I was taking pictures of the gorgeous rising moon glowing through an ethereal midnight blue canopy. I was trying out a different camera and was very pleased that I could simply zoom in on the moon and see such detail. What an improvement! This weekend we have a supermoon, technically lunar perigee when the […]

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Keep Looking Up

Yesterday in Florida, Jack Horkheimer, the longtime host of “Star Gazer” on public television, died at the age of 72. Horkheimer was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium for three and a half decades. He had no formal astronomy training, but with his trademark infectious enthusiasm, brought the wonders of the universe […]

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