This spectacular image by my friend Andrea Girones was taken recently at Morant’s Curve, Alberta using a DSLR with a 20mm lens on a star tracking mount. It captures the arc of faintly glowing reddish hydrogen gas around Orion and the nimbus around his head (at left), the bright compact Rosette Nebula (upper left), Mars…
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As shown above, on Friday, March 31, 2023 from 8:46 to 8:51 pm EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying high overhead of the GTA in an extremely bright pass, rising from the west-northwestern horizon, and then flying closely past the bright star Capella and then the moon before entering Earth’s shadow in…
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The beautiful Rosette Nebula in Monoceros consists of a circular patch of glowing hydrogen gas and an internal star cluster, created as the hydrogen gas collapsed. Stan Noble tool this image, which was featured as the SkyNews picture of the week for November 3, 2017, in Aneroid, Saskatchewan. The image spans about two finger widths…
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As shown above, on Sunday, March 19, 2023 from 8:39 to 8:44 pm EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying over the GTA in a very bright pass, rising from the west-southwestern horizon, and then flying closely past Venus and then between the two dippers before entering Earth’s shadow low in the northeastern…
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The relatively bright galaxy named NGC 2903 sits in front of Leo, the Lion’s nose, just below the reddish star Alterf. The magnitude 9 spiral galaxy is visible in medium-sized telescope under dark sky conditions. End-to-end the galaxy spans 11 arc-minutes, or one-third of the full moon’s diameter! While it didn’t make Charles Messier’s List,…
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As shown above, on Friday, March 17, 2023 from 8:36 to 8:41 pm EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying high overhead of the GTA in an extremely bright pass, rising from the southwestern horizon, and then flying closely past the bright stars Betelgeuse and Pollux before entering Earth’s shadow in the east-northeastern…
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This beautiful image of Gemini’s Messier 35 and the smaller, but denser open star cluster NGC 2158 (below right of centre) was captured by “Mr. Eclipse” himself, Fred Espenak. Two more small open clusters shine at the far right – squint to see them! The image spans two thumb widths, or 2.5 angular degrees, left…
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As shown above, on Sunday, March 5, 2023 from 5:59 to 6:05 am EST, the International Space Station will be visible flying high overhead of the GTA in an extremely bright pass, exiting Earth’s shadow low in the northwestern sky below the Big Dipper, and then flying between the two dippers and through the very…
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