Bruce Berger's Astronomy Blog

My headline might seem a little risqué, but since this is an astronomy website it’s not what you think. As you read in the post below, the ATMoB team captured data on the occultation of a 10.5 magnitude star in Aquarius by a 129km diameter (est.) asteroid named 694 Ekard. Just 12 hours later, a [...]

Well, we saw it – or rather we saw it, then it winked out, and then it was there again. Magnitude 10.5 TYCO 0528-00946-1 star in Aquarius winked out for about 2 seconds while Gary Jacobson, Ken Cantrell, Marion Hochuli, Tom Calderwood and I watched.
This was an occultation by 694 Ekard, a 12.6 Mag asteroid [...]

I have a good friend – we’ve been buddies for about 5 years now, and his name is Fred. Some of you who are at least my age might remember him from television as Doctor Fred the Weatherman on WNAC-TV Channel 7 in Boston.
Today Dr. Fred is a forensic meteorologist, which his late friend Norm [...]