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Photographing the Solar Eclipse Aug. 10, 2017
Week of August 13-19, 2017 Unless you've been visiting another planet, you've surely heard about th... Read More
Safely Viewing the Solar Eclipse Aug. 03, 2017
Week of August 6-12, 2017 It's been quite a while since we in North America have enjoyed an eclipse... Read More
The Great American Total Solar Eclipse Jul. 20, 2017
Week of July 23-29, 2017 It's been nearly four decades since sky watchers in any part of the contin... Read More
Capture the Cosmos! Jul. 14, 2017
Week of July 16-22, 2017 If you can see it, you can photograph it. This is Mammana's First Law of N... Read More
In Search of Messier's Goldmine Jul. 06, 2017
Week of July 9-15, 2017 Back in the late 18th and early 19th centuries — long before anyone ha... Read More
Earth's Elliptical Orbit Jun. 22, 2017
Week of June 25-July 1, 2017 Summer is only a couple days old, and already we're baking. As I writ... Read More
Get Ready: Summer is Coming! Jun. 15, 2017
Week of June 18-24, 2017 Hard to believe it's mid-June once again. That, of course, means a change ... Read More
Saturn: Lord of the Rings Jun. 08, 2017
Week of June 11-17, 2017 If I were to ask which you think is our solar system's most beautiful plan... Read More
Check out This Week's Mini-Moon! Jun. 01, 2017
Week of June 4-10, 2017 At least once a year we hear about the supermoon, when the full moon appear... Read More
Seeing the Inner Planets at Dawn May. 25, 2017
Week of May 28-June 3, 2017 It's always fun to ask stargazers why they believe that if Mercury is t... Read More
Making Friends With Vega May. 18, 2017
Week of May 21-27, 2017 Of all the books I've read during my 43-year astronomy career, my favorite ... Read More
A Celestial Menagerie May. 11, 2017
Week of May 14-20, 2017 Look back into history and you'll find that just about every indigenous cul... Read More
Message to the Stars Apr. 27, 2017
Week of April 30-May 6, 2017 On Nov. 16, 1974, astronomers sent skyward a cryptic three-minute radi... Read More
Mooning Around With Jupiter Apr. 20, 2017
Week of April 23-29, 2017 It was little over four centuries ago that the great Italian astronomer G... Read More
Enjoying the Lyrids Meteor Shower Apr. 13, 2017
Week of April 16-22, 2017 With springtime well underway, stargazers are beginning to retreat from t... Read More
Time Travel Among the Stars Apr. 06, 2017
Week of April 9-15, 2017 It's been said that most of what we know about the universe comes to us in... Read More
The Return of Jupiter Mar. 30, 2017
Week of April 2-8, 2017 What a great way to begin springtime. Jupiter is back in our night sky, and... Read More
Realm of the Galaxies Mar. 23, 2017
Week of March 26-April 1, 2017 After the moon sets this week, get away from bright city lights and ... Read More
Finding the Horse and Rider Mar. 16, 2017
Week of March 19-25, 2017 We terrestrial stargazers have it easy. We orbit a single star, and we lo... Read More
