Category: Current Astronomy News
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Watch Earth roll by live in HD, streamed from the ISS
Click to watch – “The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment places four commercially available HD cameras on the exterior of the space station and…
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Dark Skies in the News
Are city lights and suburban street lamps dimming our view of the starry, starry night? Not everywhere. At least not yet. Barry Petersen takes us…
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TIME magazine invites League’s Astrophotographers
TIME magazine invites League’s Astrophotographers
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
Subject: PARI on UNC-TV and Annual SPACE DAY Open House I wanted to make sure you knew about two things happening this weekend. We have…
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New Meteor Showers May 24
Possible new meteor shower May 2014
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Upcoming Events Nov 22-Dec 7 2013
Hi FAS members, Mark your calendars! We have many requests to show new star gazers the night sky!! Pick one or more! Two are even…
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Supernova Erupts in M74 – Homepage News – SkyandTelescope.com
New super nova in M74 click for details. Stu Williams
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Supermoon Sunday June 23, 2013
Don’t miss the action – The biggest, brightest Moon of the year is almost here. On 23 June 2013, a Supermoon will be occurring. What…
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Noctilucent Clouds
I saw this while watching the NASA ScienceCasts video about an early start to this year’s noctilucent clouds season. Given my interests in red sprites…
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Sunset Triangle – May 23 2013
Check out something cool to see at sunset
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Recent New Zealand daylight meteor?
From Dave Morgan, From Dr. Steve Kerr, expatriate Winston-Salem native and former FAS Secretary, who now lives in Dunedin, NZ sends this daylight meteor report.…
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Chelyabinsk Meteor (02.15.13) – informational weblinks
From Jeff Poplin – NASA revises (upward) preliminary estimates: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html UMSF forum pages about the event: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5524&st=285 Lots of good comments from knowledgeable folks… Interesting…
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