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Lunar Eclipse (and more)

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No, this isn’t the eclipse that happened this morning, but one from many years ago.  It was mostly cloudy here last night, although I could see the Moon through some thin clouds before I went to bed around midnight.  I hope you got to see it! I intended to post about it here yesterday, and thought I did, but must have done something wrong.  It’s been such a long time since I posted here that I may have forgotten how to do it.  Part of the reason I haven’t posted is that I’ve been busy with non-astronomy things.  But also, […]

End of Another Season

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The End of the Season (sigh) I haven’t given up on the possibility of a dark site star party in November, or even December. But the chances are it will be cloudy when the New Moon comes, and it will definitely be raining more as the season changes, so Starship Gamma Pictoris (my star party home-away-from-home and mobile gallery) has been covered up and prepared for cold weather. It’s always a little sad to see the end of the astronomy season, but the truth is that I usually get as many images from my home observatory during the winter as […]