Hey, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. We sure did! After the Miami Book Fair we stayed on with family who live in Homestead and spent the holiday with them. At one point I got to take my 10″ Dobsonian telescope out to Flamingo in the Everglades where the skies are […]
Read more "Pyramids on the Moon?"Hello, everyone! James here with another post about interesting places I’ve visited. But this one lines up perfectly with me as an amateur astronomer and a science fiction author! Once again, a big welcome to my new subscribers! Glad to have you along for the ride! Recently, while we were in Huntsville, AL visiting the […]
Read more "A Visit to the Von Braun Observatory!"Recently we went to visit the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL and it was a cool place to spend the day. Lots of rockets, lots of space history, and lots of cool stuff to see! Walking around the various exhibits makes it easy to imagine living in space. Here is one of […]
Read more "U.S. Space and Rocket Center Visit"So after the success of acquiring my Meade 90 ETX, I got a bad case of aperture fever and started looking. As some of you may already know, aperture fever is when you’ve had a taste of astronomy and suddenly want a bigger scope! The ETX is great for the Moon and planets, and some […]
Read more "Severe case of aperture fever results in a new scope!"Congratulations to JAXA and the Japanese people for this historic lunar landing! This makes Japan the 5th nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the Lunar surface, following closely behind India’s recent historic Lunar landing with their Chandrayaan spacecraft. And the new space race is on! Although the SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) spacecraft […]
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