Twitpics from Space
ISS astronaut Soichi Noguchi gets quite a view! Lucky for us he’s tweeting much of it from onboard the ISS. Here is a small sample and all the links to get you going.
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My Red Blue Moon
A really quick to show my snaps of yesterday’s partial lunar eclipse, on a blue moon. You can see the little bite taken out of the Moon on the lower-right, caused by the Earth’s shadow. Happy New Year. Photos above and below using different processing.
Blue Moon Eclipse
So here’s something that totally passed me by: there is a partial lunar eclipse tonight! Thanks to Astropixie and Astronomy Blog for pointing it out – I would have missed it otherwise. This is an event where the Moon passes into the shadow of the Earth. In this case the Moon is only partially covered [...]
Carnival of Space 125
I am pleased to be hosting this week’s quasquicentennial Carnival of Space – a collection of the best space-related blog posts from the past week.
Eyes on the Skies
I have just found myself in possession of a DVD called Eyes on the Skies. I watched a few minutes of it just now and it looks very interesting. It seems that anyone can get a copy. Eyes on the Skies is a book and a movie that is freely available for public events carried out by [...]
Make Your Own Moonwatch
Next week is Moonwatch week and if you’re holding an event locally you might want to use one of these posters to advertise it on your front gate or local lamp posts. A Twitter success story.
Over Twitter Update
I have updated and expanded the collection of ISS- and Hubble-spotting Twitter feeds. You can get the low down on these transit-predicting feeds on my Over Twitter page, which also now features a map showing the list of current feeds and the next expected transit information.
Spacebuzz
Stuart (Astronomy Blog) has been busy since the .Astronomy Conference and has come up with a rather nifty tool called Spacebuzz. This one-page website uses blog tags to compile a list of the current hop topics in the astronomy blogosphere.
Get an Automatic APOD Desktop
I was tinkering about earlier and created this automator script, which changes my desktop image to be today’s APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). This is Mac OS X only.
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