lumpy darkness

Been a little while that I surfed thorought SpaceFlight Now. Noted, front and centre, an article  on Artemis 2 and it lovely spaceship. What...

I considered a little project for the afternoon, so to get a bit more familiar with the feature in Stellarium. Of course, Stellarium is not ...

While a late-night crew tended to me I noted a half a disc trying to push grey light trough the blind. I tried to figure out the time. Confu...

I misread the receipt for the lunch served. Cool! Dessert item from NASA. Very Cool! How did National Aeronautics and Space Administration k...

Didn't notice it at the time but yesterday's Astronomy Photo of the Day  (APOD) was pretty spectacular. A stunning, huge (I assume)...

Moon's up again. And, again, amazing dark. Orange-red! Estimated 20 degrees elevation. Stellarium Mobile Plus better than me: 14°. A mag...

It was with passing interesting I noted headlines regarding the Boeing spacecraft and cost overruns. It was a symbolic number they'd rea...

It is done. Wow.  This one, for some reason, took a lot of energy. But it feels so good, so amazing, to be get past this. And there's th...

Had a quick look at the RASC Bulletin . Pleased to see the efforts of volunteers recogised including Chris B on the Calendar . There was som...

Taught level 2 intermediate Stellarium this evening. From the bed. Which meant no real-time mount control. Not ideal. Lacks punch! But it st...

Not sure the exact time but I noted the Moon a deeply-coloured orange-red as it rose out of the south-west.   Tinted as usually seen during ...

Dabbling. A little bit of everything. Noted the latest release of Occult , version 4.2023.7.30, by Dave Herald. Via the IOTA Daily Summary o...

Finished the edits to the Deep-Sky Challenge. For Stellarium, for the Stellarium bookmark list. Perhaps something I did back in December? Ma...

Finally. The huge spot light in gone. Well, for me. Past the southern extent of the eastern window. Anyone outside, heaven help you. You can...

Oh! Pop goes the weasel. The Moon revealed herself above the mauve bank. Pop. Bigger, fuller. Mnemosyne, motorola e6, f/2, 1/30 sec, 3.54 mm...

It's a little tricky but it's there. I saw it... I did. There's a bank of cloud, low. Blue sky up high... Through a layer, throu...

While reading about the old British TV serial, a show my sister and I have been referring to a bit lately... I stumbled across an interestin...

Woke peacefully. I think I had the best sleep in a while... maybe from 11 to 5-ish. Wow. Looking out the big double windows, I noted a dark ...

Awake now. Grabbed the National Geographic magazine Special Edition Atlas of the Night Sky . 5:45 AM. Skimmed what I had read so far. Includ...

Oh. A pale disc. Spotted the Moon to the south-west. Low. Gibbous. Rising and heading to the south cardinal. Shoo. Go away.

Watched—tried—Becky's video on the Universe age. A large family across the hall was having a little jamboree. I'll try again later. ...

Just broke 13000 posts. I noted the number of posts in the backend of blogger. Not all those are active. I think there's a few hundred, ...

Deployed the Deep-Sky Challenge observing lists! Wow. Wow! As big fluffy clouds rolled by, as the portable pump pumped, I made available the...

Oh oh. Another BGO job completed. Thanks, again, robot! Busy busy. Centred on HIP 87937 in Ophiuchus. Barnard's Star is the bright, obvi...

We enjoyed a colourful and dynamic rainbow from the fourth floor.  My sister captured many shots with her iPad Mini 4. Surprise, surprise. f...

I believe I have discussed this, briefly, but never explored deeply. And I'll only briefly mention it here... I can, if necessary, do a ...

Chatted with Al. He needs relief from the Stellarium assignment. I thought about it for a bit.  I'm not busy...  It's actually a lit...

Was truly happy today to see some Clear Sky Alarm Clock alerts for my Halifax profile. This was the second. There are a couple of items in ...

One more "completeness" item. For me anyway. I cannot remember clearly the process for creating a new list in SkySafari! A special...

For the sake of completeness, I document checking one's observing lists. This procedure is specifically useful for verifying the success...

I first tried to document this process, the loading an observing list into SkySafari, in December 2022. But back than I ran into some snags,...

Super-quick remark for now... I'll follow up later...  In daylight. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is making headlines. Curiously in a variety of...

Did a ton of testing and trials with SkySafari Plus and observing lists. Found two seemingly reliable and stable methods for getting observi...