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277E-291-Rose Rules
Anyone who thinks women can't do computers and science needs to meet my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny. On a recent 3 night observing run …
2 years, 5 months ago
789-Asteroid With A Tail
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when…
2 years, 5 months ago
276E-290-Screaming Aten
I knew from the short regularly space streaks on the four images I had just obtained with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch on Mount Lemmon, Arizona,…
2 years, 5 months ago
788-!00 Years of Wilderness
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natural…
2 years, 5 months ago
275E-289-Strange Comet
C/2016 Q4 (Kowalski) is my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski's 14th comet discovery. It orbits the Sun once every 68 years on a cold path…
2 years, 5 months ago
787-Far Out
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.
2 years, 5 months ago
274E-288-Coming Out Of Monsoon
In the southwest, the life giving monsoon rains occur in July and August, divide the observing year into two halves, and give asteroid hunters a chan…
2 years, 5 months ago
786-Comet 31
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona.…
2 years, 5 months ago
273E-286-Neighboring World
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have discovered a rocky Earth like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to ou…
2 years, 6 months ago
785-Secret Asteroid Mission
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable near…
2 years, 6 months ago