This project was driven out of necessity. Several factors make it challenging to record occultation timings, and a couple more so in the New England winters. Let me start with an overview of the process setting up before and tearing down after capturing lunar grazes and stellar occultations.   First, one has to assemble the [...]

Mike Hill and I were imaging last night and completed 2 integrations of a star in Orion. We noticed an artifact that we thought was a camera reflection, but after blinking 2 photos taken 7.5 minutes apart, we think we’ve found a comet that doesn’t appear on any charts we have access to, including the [...]

This article was translated from Portuguese to English by Google, hence it isn’t ‘perfect’ English. To translate to another language, use the dropdown selection on the upper right of this page. Diário do Nordeste FENÔMENO ASTRONÔMICO (19/2/2010) Ceará é ponto de observação Ceara back to the point of observation of scientists. This time, the phenomenon being [...]