Month: October 2024

Science Outreach Specialists

A Comet Looms Largest, Medusa Blinks, and a Super Bright Moon Lets Bright Lights Shine!

A terrific image of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset on Saturday, October 12, shared by Paul Whitmarsh and Jane Penny, of the Lewes Astronomical Society, and our deputy director Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society in the UK. The original post is at https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ZT1U7DUCQsQPmRzf/ Hello, mid-October Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights…
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Greater Toronto Area Space Station Flyovers for the week of October 13th, 2024

As shown above, on Sunday, October 20, 2024 from 6:33 to 6:38 am EDT, the International Space Station will be visible flying high overhead of the GTA in an extremely bright pass, exiting Earth’s shadow partway up the west-southwestern sky near the moon and Jupiter and then flying closely past the tip of the Big…
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The Evening Waxing Moon Gets an X, a Bright Comet Shines After Sunset, Maybe Some Meteors, Maybe Some Aurorae, and Definitely Planets!

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, Autumn Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of October 6th, 2024 by…
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