What’s Up in the Sky – January, 2015 January Continues the Tradition By now you have probably heard or read about the connection between various astronomical events and seasonal celebrations. Next month’s sky is a good example of that which the ancients would have found most interesting. We have one planetary close encounter next month …
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Peter Burkey's monthly news articles from the Holland Sentinel
Dec 13
What’s Up in the Sky
What’s Up in the Sky – December, 2014 Comet Landing Highlights December’s Other Stellar Events I’ll be honest. I was hoping that I would be reporting on exciting new discoveries from the surface of a comet in this column. But, although there are, indeed, historic activities taking place, the risks and unknown factors of space …
Nov 05
What’s Up in the Sky
What’s Up in the Sky – November, 2014 Asterisms and You We batted .500 for October with the lunar eclipse being spectacular under clear skies but the partial solar eclipse last Thursday being invisible through clouds that appeared on the scene about an hour prior to the start of the eclipse. And that was after …
Oct 01
What’s Up in the Sky
What’s Up in the Sky – October, 2014 Eclipse Month A week from tomorrow, Wednesday, October 8, will begin with a celestial show that many readers have witnessed in the past. The Moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow, resulting in a total lunar eclipse. You will have to get up early, however, to see …
Sep 01
What’s Up in the Sky
What’s Up in the Sky – September, 2014 Close Encounter of the Comet Kind After having participated in educators’ conferences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (through the support of Fennville Public Schools) for the Voyager 2 flybys of Uranus and Neptune, it was with high expectations that I returned to JPL in December of 1999 …
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Hemlock Crossing Public Observatory
