Answers for Allensbank
Feb 01
After a recent talk at Allensbank Primary School, I received questions for many of the children. Here are answer to three of them...
My Red Blue Moon
Jan 01
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...
Blue Moon Eclipse
Dec 31
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 by the darkest part of the shadow - the umbra - but should go a nice reddish colour and look...
Bombing the Moon
Oct 11
On Friday, NASA's LCROSS Moon mission ended with the probe taking a nose dive onto the Lunar surface. This was all planned and was a great way to see what lay underneath the surface at the Moon's intriguing South Pole. LCROSS was impacting inside a crater that is perpetually in shadow. Such conditions could allow water ice to remain in tact from many, many millennia ago and such a collision could...
Make Your Own Moonwatch
Mar 27
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.
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