* Astronomy

Meteor Showers There are no major meteor showers this month... September is a month with the best sporadic rates and a few mysterious minor showers. The Alpha Aurigids are active from Aug. 25 to Sept. 5, normally with a ZHR of 10. this year it may be quite active The Delta Aquarids are active Septemb...

ATel 9540: MASTER discovery: PSN in PGC877124 and high amplitude dwarf nova

NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket Solves One Cosmic Mystery, Reveals Another It wasn't until the flight of the DXL sounding rocket, short for Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local galaxy, that scientists had concrete answers about the X-rays' sources. In a new study, published Sept. 23, 2016, in the As...

Image of a new sunspot (bottom) captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

The Stingray Nebula (Hen 3-1357) is the youngest known planetary nebula (PN). (Bobrowsky 1994) The Stingray is located in the direction of the southern constellation Ara (the Altar), and is located 18,000 light-years away. Read more

Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and a trick of nature, have confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting two stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349, located 8,000 light-years away towards the center of our galaxy. The planet orbits roug...

The northernmost last quarter moon of the year. Six panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount.

ATel 9532: Spectroscopic classification of AT2016ghq as a Type Ia

Spoiler Expand (1911 X 1912) Part of middle of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, 255 X 255 pixels in the original HUDF, (cropped from its o...

ATel 9531: Probable Bright Supernova discovered by PSST

In the first test of a new radar instrument, scientists have seen through more than a mile of Greenland ice to reveal an image of land that has been hidden for millions of years. Ohio State University scientists and their colleagues will use what they learn from the instrument, dubbed GISMO (for Glo...

Image of sunspot 12593 and the western limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

Guglielmo Thomson (1760 - November 1806) was an English geologist. He died in Palermo at the early age of 46 years. He discovered the Widmanstätten pattern. Read more

20th April 2005 Cool spaces in the cosmic microwave background, thought to be the 'birthmarks' of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, should be bigger, according to new analysis of satellite data by scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. This new analysis suggests that ther...

A Japanese M-5 rocket is scheduled to launch the Solar-B space observatory on September 22nd, from the Uchinoura Space Centre, Japan. The one hour Launch window starts at 21:00 GMT The satellite will study the interaction of the Sun's magnetic field and its corona.