While powering up and initializing my 14" Meade for remote observing and intending to image the two new observatory telescopes, Herschel and Planck, just...
Mike Brown's Planets blog has an interesting story this week. He talks about Heavens Above (www.heavens-above.com), which is linked from Skyscrapers' web page....
There is a composite of 3 images of 30 second exposures each that I took of the Herschel and Planck Observatories on their way to the Earth's L2 orbit point....
Hello Skyscrapers, I ordered one of the Galileo scope kits for my kids. I thought it would be fun for them to assemble and use. Here is the link to the...
Read the story of our founding fathers contribution to astronomy! http://www.astro.virginia.edu/research/observatories/26inch/history/early.php Clear Skies ...
On Sunday, May 31st my wife and I visited the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Umong the many historic places we visited was the Leander McCormick...
The LCROSS Lunar mission (one of two such satellites going to the moon) was launched this afternoon approximately 5:32 PM EST. Its trajectory will soon be...
Hello fellow Skyscrapers, we need some new images for our home-page. I don't what to keep posting old images, even though they are very good. I know to weather...
David A. Huestis Historian Skyscrapers, Inc. June 4, 2009 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Astronomical Potpourri in July Movies have often...
After several weeks of cloudy weather....sunspots mini-groups are starting to show up on the sun. Maybe it was just waiting for the 4th of July fireworks...
To all, In the photo section is my first attempt at imaging M57 with my new Titan mount and my 10" Schmidt-Newtonian. What a pleasure it is to take an image...
Hi Lloyd, Nice images! You will find that there are many variables to control, or just deal with in taking a good image. I think a good image requires about...
I though I had discovered my first SuperNova in a galaxy called NGC 7678. This galaxy is quite small and not especially bright and the SuperNova is about 16th...
Nice work just the same!! Regards & Clear Skies AL ... From: "starman361" <bob_napier@...> To: "skyscrapers rias" <skyscrapers_rias@yahoogroups.com> ...
Where were you when Apollo 11 landed on the moon (if you were born before July 20, 1969)? This coming Monday, July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of the first...
Bob, Somewhere I have a photo that I took of the family TV of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon. It's a B&W photo of our B&W TV. If I can find it...
Bob, Were you doing blinking in an attempt to discover novas? How did your "almost discovery" come about? Pete Peterson Wishing Star Observatory, Barrington...
No, I was just imaging some galaxies in the Pegasus square area and not really looking for SuperNovae. Usually, before I image a galaxy, I look it up on my...
An amateur in Australia just recorded and reported what appears to possibly be an impact event on Jupiter similar to the Shoemacker-Levy comet impacts in 1994....
Thanks very much for the feedback Bob. At $79 ECU is a relatively inexpensive planetarium program. I've been relying upon Guide 8 for years now for my asteroid...
For some time I've been bothered by my inability to directly load FITS files into PhotoShop CS3. It was a real pain to have to open AstroArt to convert from...
David A. Huestis Historian Skyscrapers Inc. July 11th, 2009 The Perseid Meteor Shower of August As I write this column in mid-July, it appears we may have...
I'm just back from a workshop in Chicago on an astronomy/education project called Citizen Sky. The goal is to get people involved in observing epsilon Aurigae...
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