My mount and my guiding were conflicting with each other, so I got this crappy image of the Iris Nebula
With only a 30 minute window between sunset and its disappearance behind the trees, I managed to get this image of the comet.
One of the brightest and best shows of Northern Lights in Solar Cycle 25!
Today, we're going to explore one of the most fundamental constants in the universe, and the basis for how our particular form of time travel works: the speed of light.
British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner combined the words "parallax" and "second" in 1913 and created the term 'parsec."
In astronomy, conjunctions are when two objects in the sky are visually close to each other.
If you're very lucky, you get to witness a once in a millennium event that comes down to pure chance.
The Milky Way
You live in the Milky Way galaxy. It's home base. It's where almost everything you can see with your naked eye lives, too. Some people can see the Andromeda galaxy, and if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, you can see two small galaxies (the LMC and SMC) that orbit the Milky Way....
Today, this Astropotamus went 8 minutes and 14 seconds into the past and looked at the sun through a solar safe filter on the Time Machine.
This just in: the next 18 months will be the most energetic northern lights in 20 years!
Most people in the Northern Hemisphere were treated to the after effects of the strongest solar storm since 2003 - the Aurora, also known as the Northern Lights..