There was an amazing amount of media hype leading up to last night’s Supermoon. From out of nowhere came hundreds of experts espousing facts and figures. There was talk of the best vantage locations, there were strong suggestions that you just can’t miss it, the likes of which will not been seen again for another […]
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Looking directly up into the Milky Way and the constellation of Scorpio I see two wandering planets amid a sea of stars An orange Mars, the largest and brightest lingers on the back of the scorpion gazing off at the eerie glow of the Blue Horsehead Nebula to the left. The red giant Antares lights […]
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I think I have enough moon images now for an independent collection but just because here’s a new one. Last night’s waxing crescent is still mostly showing shadow but if you look really closely the almost hint of a full outline gives it a depth not perceived when the moon is full. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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Another look on the amazing Eta Carinae Nebula to be seen in our southern night sky. This fabulous structure can be seen in one of the most visibly dense parts of the Milky Way. There are 10s of thousands of stars visible here creating patterns of textured starlight, seemingly empty voids and the stunning Eta […]
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy. At around 163,000 light year away it is humbling […]
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