Astro Event: A South Pacific Eclipse.

Path of the solar eclipse…click for animation. (Credit: A.T. Sinclair/NASA).
   This year’s big ticket astronomical event occurs over a sparsely populated but beautiful track of our planet; we’re talking about July 11th’s total solar eclipse. Of course, it isn’t often that an eclipse doesn’t occur over the windswept Arctic or a war-torn banana republic… the Sun [...]

07.06.10: Mega-Scope Site Selected.

 
   The dawn of the mega-scopes is almost upon us… earlier last month, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) consortium announced a site selection for their whopping 42 meter monster; the E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) which will be perched atop Cerro Armazones in central Chile. The 10,020 foot high summit beat out four other possible [...]