Astronomy du Jour

Astronomy du Jour

Aug 20

I am once again enjoying a timeout in Provence, where I have dark, clear skies most nights and a supply of good wine and too much cheese

Networking Meteors

Networking Meteors

May 11

I don't normally talk about the daily APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) images from NASA becasue they are so popular and well annotated. Today's has really caught my eye though. Between 2007 and 2009, a group of amateur meteor enthusiasts in Japan got together to create a national network of over 100 connected video cameras. They used a piece of motion-detection software called...