Sunday, April 20, 2025

stupid venus tricks--inferior conjunction

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Venus inferior conjunction 3/22/25 3:21 PM local 22:21 UTC 1% illuminated 8 degrees 25 minutes from the sun when you see a really really bri...
Monday, February 10, 2025

A city falcon

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 stepped out the door of my office after work and caught this: falcon-9 Long Beach, CA 2/10/25 6:12 PM local falcon-9 passing venus falcon-9...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

last weekend's moon-venus conjuction

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many noticed the conjunction of the moon and bright venus after sunset last weekend.  turned my planetary rig to venus, but failed to detect...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Comet C2024 G3 Atlas survives

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Comet C2024 G3 Atlas survived it's close pass with the sun, causing a stir in the astronomy community as comets surviving such a trip te...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

second jupiter of the year 2025-01-03 05:39.2 UTC

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 still more good seeing, this time through light fog.   The great red spot can be seen just peaking off the right side (better shown in the ...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

first jupiter of the year 2025-01-02 06:03.2 UTC

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another night of good seeing, managed to get the barlow out for 2x magnification before the fog rolled in first of the year technic ally 1/2...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Happy New Year. Jupiter 12/31/24 3:48.6 UTC

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happy new year all.   the region between the 2 blue festoons was blazing away through medium to heavy fog.   you can also see a recent storm...