This image of the Lunar Straight Wall or Rupes Recta in Mare Nubium was captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. While the feature can be seen through binoculars, a backyard telescope will reveal more detail. (Adapted from NASA LRO) Hello, October Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of October 22nd, 2023 by…
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As shown above, on Monday, October 23, 2023 from 6:37 to 6:42 am EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying over the GTA in an extremely bright pass, exiting Earth’s shadow in the western sky near Jupiter, then flying closely past Polaris before setting in the northeast. (courtesy: Heavens-above.com) Artificial satellites are visible…
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Andrea Girones of Ottawa captured this amazing image of Saturday’s annular solar eclipse from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She used a Lunt 40mm solar telescope, an ASI 174MM camera on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer tracker. Hello, Autumn Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of October 15th, 2023 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to…
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As shown above, on Saturday, October 21, 2023 from 6:33 to 6:39 am EDT, 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 southwestern sky, then flying close to Betelgeuse in Orion and Gemini’s twin stars before setting in the…
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This annular solar eclipse occured on June 6, 2021. Proper solar filters or image projection is required to view every part of an annular eclipse. It’s Solar Eclipse Time, Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of October 8th, 2023 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and…
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This image of the large, faint, and spectacular Helix Nebula was taken through the 16″ telescope owned by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and operated remotely from its location in Sierra, California. Ian Barredo re-processed the raw images to produce this award-winning result. The planetary nebula is the corpse of a star of mass…
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As shown above, on Sunday, October 1, 2023 from 7:30 to 7:36 pm EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying over the GTA in an extremely bright pass, rising over the northwestern horizon, flying through the Big Dipper and then close to Scheat, the star in one corner of Pegasus’ square, and then…
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This image of the morning planet Venus showing its current crescent phase was captured through RGB and UV filters on a Celestron C11 telescope on September 22, 2023 by my friend Andrea Girones of Ottawa. Follow her as andrea_girones on Instagram and as @AndreaGirones on X/Twitter to see more of her fantastic images. Hello, end-of-September…
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As shown above, on Saturday, September 30, 2023 from 8:18 to 8:22 pm EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying high overhead of the GTA in an extremely bright pass, rising over the west-northwestern horizon, flying closely past bright Vega and Deneb, and then entering Earth’s shadow in the east-southeastern sky near Saturn.…
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This fantastic image of the Heart and Soul Nebulae in Cassiopeia was captured by my friend Steve Mallia at Starfest in Ayton, Ontario on September 15, 2023. The pinks are produced by ionized hydrogen gas and the blues by starlight scattering from interstellar dust. The entire scene spans about a palm’s width the sky. Despite…
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