The Great American Eclipse: Part III — Totality
It has been five days now, just over 120 hours, since Totality slid across the United States of America. Since a Total Solar Eclipse travelled coast to coast from Oregon […]
Astronomy
The Great American Eclipse: Part II — The Trip
The best laid plans don’t always execute the way you envision them to. My younger daughter, who had been a hesitant yes to this journey ended up being a last […]
The Great American Eclipse: Part I – The Plan
This coming Monday, 21 August, the United States will see something that it hasn’t seen in nearly a century. A total solar eclipse will cross from coast to coast, entering […]
We Need a Moonshot
I was born just a few months after the return of the last human crewed Earth mission to the Moon. Apollo 17 launched on December 7, 1972, it’s lunar module […]
The Star
“In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been […]
A Cosmic Influence
Twenty years ago today, Carl Sagan passed away from a cancer-related blood disease, myelodysplasia. If you know ANYTHING about twentieth century astrophysics, you know who Dr. Sagan was and what […]
To Boldly Go…Part I
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly […]
A Night At McDonald Observatory
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which […]
Solar Fun
As you may be aware, it is not dark out 24 hours a day. At least not on our planet. Unfortunately for you astronomy lovers and romantics, the Sun does […]
Getting Started
Started in what, you ask? Astronomy. The study of the night skies, and the objects that inhabit it. Welcome to the refined, refocused and reenergized Sommer Nights. I am a […]