In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern […]
Showers today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 82 Humidity. 16 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Hurricane Idalia is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico from the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/sY3clOi
“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature’s monotony.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.” – David Hockney
Not the James Webb Space Telescope’s latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 26. The snapshot was taken about 2 minutes after the launch of of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SpaceX Crew-7 mission, the seventh commercial crew rotation mission […]
PM Showers today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 94 Humidity. 12 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
In this image from Sept. 5, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford checks out the sample pump on the continuous flow electrophoresis system experiment in the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. via NASA https://ift.tt/cVdrQCU
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” – Pablo Picasso
Near perigee, the closest point in its almost moonthly orbit, a Full Moon rose as the Sun set on August 1. Its brighter than average lunar disk was captured in this dramatic moonrise sequence over dense cloud banks along the eastern horizon from Ragusa, Sicily. Illuminating night skies around planet Earth it was the second […]