Good-morning, kittens and dawgs! A week ago this past Monday, we took a spontaneous trip to the mountains with the hopes of seeing Mars at its closer than usual position above the…
Tag: night sky
Skywatch Friday: It was a dark and stormy night
It’s Halloween’s eve; I thought it would be good time to get my creepy on. Well, not exactly but thanks to photo-editing I turned an ordinary day shot of an exceptionally interesting…
Skywatch Friday: The raven and the moon
This week when I stepped outside to take the trash curbside, the sun was bursting in the morning sky. The air was bright and crisp. Didn’t the calendar say it was spring?…
Don’t Miss…A Bad Moon Rising!
Okay, I’m not talking about CCR’s hit song. In fact, at 11:35 p.m. on May 5th there will be a full moon. It won’t be like any other full moon. As pictured…
Coming Tonight… Earth’s Close Encounter!
Hubba-hubba, this is freaky stuff! Tonight around 6:28pm EST Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass about 202,000 miles from the earth. That’s closer than the moon, folks, which is roughly 239,000 miles from us. This…