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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I captured this image of the once-in-a-lifetime aurora borealis on May 10, 2024 at 10:41 pm, from the trail behind my house in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. Despite somethin cloud we were able to see the aurorae in motion. The green glow is from singly ionized oxygen. The blue arises from nitrogen and the purples come…
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This terrific image of the summer Milky Way rising from the southern sky, was captured on the moonless weekend of August 27, 2022 by Manu Mukerji while at the Carr Astronomical Observatory operated by the RASC Toronto Centre northwest of Toronto. In the foreground is a SkyShed Pod, a favorite of serious amateur astronomers who…
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This beautiful photo of the Aurora Borealis was captured by my friend Yvonne Wong in Alaska recently. The aurorae are more frequent around the two equinox periods each year because the N-S component of the Earth’s magnetic field is reduced and less able to fend off the solar wind. Hello, Spring Stargazers! Here are your…
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