Posts Tagged “astronomy”

Oh look! There’s Jupiter!

My wife called me out to the back garden tonight to see the bright object in the sky near the moon. She thought I might know what it was you see. I, uh, didn’t. I thought it might be Mars because of the colour but I knew how to find out! Google Sky Map to [...]

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The moon will be blood red tonight

A lunar eclipse is expected tonight at 10:44pm here in Ireland, all over Europe, Africa and elsewhere. I’ll be outside with my Canon 20D and 75-300 zoom so hopefully I’ll get a shot or two I can post here later. NASA has a great page on the eclipse which is where I got these two [...]

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Photos From Space

APOD had two interesting photos over the last few days: APOD: 2005 November 14 – Everest Panorama from Mars – click on the image for a *huge* panorama! Lunation – animation of the moon over the course of a month. Jintle has a lot more space photos too!

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