Rain clouds passed and the dome of the Lick Observatory’s 36 inch Great Refractor opened on November 19. The historic telescope was pointed toward a partially eclipsed Moon. Illuminated by dim red lighting to preserve an astronomer’s night vision, telescope controls, coordinate dials, and the refractor’s 57 foot long barrel were captured in this high […]
Cloudy today! With a high of 2C and a low of 2C. 88 Humidity. 1 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.” – Ruth St. Denis
Shaped like a cone tapering into space, the Earth’s dark central shadow or umbra has a circular cross-section. It’s wider than the Moon at the distance of the Moon’s orbit though. But during the lunar eclipse of November 18/19, part of the Moon remained just outside the umbral shadow. The successive pictures in this composite […]
Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 1C and a low of 1C. 91 Humidity. 0 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. via NASA https://ift.tt/3cINMrc
“Even a true artist does not always produce art.” – Carroll O’Connor
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” – B. C. Forbes
Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large and clear as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. With a long […]