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Celestial happenings you can see from your own backyard

Newborn moon and a gallery of your eclipse photos
You didn’t think the moon was finished showing off its talents, did you? After rolling in front of the sun yesterday, it’s back in the evening sky in a different guise. Watch for the very young, thin crescent this evening … Continue reading →
Beautiful solar eclipse!
It cleared just in time here in northern Minnesota for a great eclipse experience. My friend Jim joined me for a jaunt to Island Lake north of town, where we set up a couple small telescopes along a pleasant stretch … Continue reading →
561,667,292 A.D. – date of Earth’s last solar eclipse?
How fortunate the moon and sun fit together so well during a total or annular eclipse. Despite their vast difference in size, the moon covers the sun in eclipse several times a year from somewhere on Earth. This neat trick … Continue reading →
SpaceX launch aborted plus solar eclipses for your bucket list
It huffed and it puffed but never took to the sky. Today was to be the historic launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS), but a mere half-second before liftoff, on-board computers … Continue reading →
Live in the Midwest? Enjoy a rare sunset solar eclipse
Most of us won’t be in the path of the annular eclipse that cuts across the western U.S. this Sunday afternoon. That means we’ll see varying degrees of a partial eclipse. The farther west and south you are, the more … Continue reading →