Your checklist for viewing the 2018 Perseid meteor shower
…at a dark site and do it very early Monday morning, August 13, 2018, before the sky begins to brighten from the approaching sunrise. The Perseid meteor shower will produce…
…at a dark site and do it very early Monday morning, August 13, 2018, before the sky begins to brighten from the approaching sunrise. The Perseid meteor shower will produce…
…curious to see Mars in the night sky, this is what to look for: 1) Mars is currently very bright. Now (July 27, 2018) and for a number of weeks to come, Mars…
…Moon will have already set. Moonset times do vary a bit by location, by the way. You can check your moonset time at the US Naval Observatory site. For Chapel Hill,…
…dimmer meteors from view. If you’re viewing from your own yard, consider inviting your neighbors – and asking them to turn off their outside lights. From a reasonably dark site,…
…Senior Director of Community Relations at Cary, NC-based analytics company SAS Institute Inc., for her continued support of STEM education. Goodnight serves on a number of boards committed to education,…
…Morehead’s Carolinas Solar Eclipse Party webpage. The direct link is https://moreheadplanetarium.org/sites/default/files/images/EclipseCerealBoxViewer.pdf But it can be even easier than that. You can also do pinhole projection with: 2. A colander. The holes can act like pinhole…
…Hill’s Back Bar. Also check out NASA’s 2017 eclipse site and the American Astronomical Society’s site. The Morehead eclipse page includes a map of eclipse events in the Carolinas, along with links to safety information,…
…too far away. Its light takes about 800 years to reach us. So we see the star as it looked when the light left it eight hundred years ago, or…