August 2022 Skies – The Perseid Meteor Shower
Perseid Meteor Shower - spectacular sky watching lighting up the night sky!
On this day – 24 October
The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe died on October 24th, 1601. In 1901, on the 300th anniversary of his death, the bodies of Tycho Brahe and his wife Kirstine were exhumed…
The 1859 Carrington Event
A solar flare erupts on January 22, 2012. On the morning of September 1, 1859, Richard Carrington an English amateur astronomer was in his observatory on his country estate outside…
Seeing Jupiters Galilean Moons
Jupiter has at least 79 natural satellites, or moons — many are small objects that have been trapped by the massive planet's gravity. The four largest moons were first observed…