stars

• August 23, 2011

  Ursa Major Don't Care and other tales of the sky

  I haven’t spent as much time looking at the stars this summer as I ought to have.  However, I have been able to catch several shooting stars and have learned to more easily identify a few stars in the sky, so I’ve had a little fun and I am making progress.  Yesterday, Tom and I were outside…

• July 6, 2011

  Summertime Constellations

  I hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend.  We had a lovely trip to Northern Michigan with family, and I got to do some stargazing one night.  It’s been a while since I’ve had a good chunk of time to look up at the night sky, which means it’s shifted a bit…

• May 21, 2011

  Galaxy Hunting

  Early in March, with the rise of the “Super Moon” – I started getting excited about getting outside with my telescope again.  I found a list of things to look for in March, and found out that Spring is a good time to view galaxies within the Coma/Virgo Super Cluster.  The only problem was weather. …

• December 9, 2010

  Pleiades, Auto Makers, and Gum.

  One of my friends first introduced me to Pleiades last year.  Pleiades is a star cluster located in Taurus that contains hundreds of stars, though only a few of them are visible to the naked eye.  It has recently come into view again in my night sky (when there aren’t too many clouds, as there…