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911-Comet Brightness Explosion
Comet 220P/McNaught orbits the Sun once every 5.5 years on a path which is between Mars and Jupiter. At that extreme distance, more than 1.5 times th…
2 months, 1 week ago
400E-441-Carson's Pair
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was observing, in the constellation Lynx, with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona , when withi…
2 months, 1 week ago
910-Mega Constellations
In an experiment that will involve all of the residents of planet Earth SpaceX has asked the FCC for permission to launch 1 million satellites into l…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
399E-440-Tracking Elon's Car
Elon Musk decided not to use a traditional mundane concrete block dummy payload for the first launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch vehicle to tes…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
909- 2026 JH2
My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Josh Hogan and Alessandra Serrano were asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major when they discovered a f…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
398E-439-Big and Close
Using our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was searching for Earth approaching asteroids i…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
908-Head On
Asteroid hunters find asteroids by looking for objects which change their position relative to the stars. If an asteroid happened to match the Earth…
3 months ago
397E-438-Bright Darkness
Most of the humans on planet Earth have never witnessed that the natural night sky is not dark; but rather it is alive with it's own lights. To see f…
3 months ago
907-Large and Close
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope when h…
3 months, 1 week ago
396E-437-Christmas Comet
On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey teammat…
3 months, 1 week ago