August 2010: Life in the Astro-Blogosphere.

 
   Summer lightning as seen from Astroguyz HQ. (Photo by Author). 
   The sultry days of summer are now upon us, in what’s usually the last of the traditional northern hemisphere summer months. You can almost feel the darkness beginning its slow creep back into our daily lives. Although we continue to operate in “stripped down mode” [...]

July 2010: Life in the Astro-blogosphere.

The Return of… Stove Pipe Scope! (Photo by Author).

 
   (Editor’s Note: As of July 1st, we are ramping down our output and limiting ourselves to the AstroEvent & Review of the Week in our quest to wrap up our science teaching degree. Don’t worry; we’re still in new content mode, just throttling back a bit. [...]

Astro Event: A Very Close Dawn Conjunction.

 
    Tomorrow morning has something worth getting up for; one of the closest planetary conjunctions of the year. Specifically, the planets Jupiter and Uranus sit about 26’ arc minutes apart, as seen through binoculars. Both will also fit nicely in a low power telescopic field for the next week or so. Jupiter has been very much in the [...]

May 2010: Life in the Astro-Blogosphere.

 
The awesome dawn launch last month of STS-131, as seen from Astoguyz HQ…Can you spot the SRB?
 
   May brings ultimate news to the Astroguyz camp, with the selection for yet a second NASAtweetup, this time to the final launch of the shuttle Atlantis! Expect us “to be all STS-132, all the time” as we track [...]

Event: Mars passes the Beehive.

 
  
    This week offers a two-fer, an easy to spot naked eye conjunction of two very different objects and a difficult to observe occultation. 1st up is a close pairing of the planet Mars and M44, the Beehive Cluster. From the 13th of April until the 20th, both will be grouped in a visual circle [...]

Astro-Event: An Asteroid Occults a Bright Star.

The path of 824 Anastasia the morning of April 6th. (Created in Google Earth).
One of the best occultations of a bright star occurs this week for observers along a line from western Canada down the U.S. west coast. At around 10:00 UT, on the morning of April 6th, 14th magnitude asteroid 824 Anastasia will occult, or pass [...]

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