Archives for the 'skywatching' Category
Unidentified Flying Sundog
Published on 18 Jan 2008 at 11:27 am.
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Two days ago, I wrote about an UFO sighting over Stephenville, TX, that has been getting a lot of press attention. Well, the local news paper, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, has published a photograph purportedly of the UFO. It is an excellent photograph of a parhelion! Here is the photograph, courtesy […]
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UFO over Texas?
Published on 16 Jan 2008 at 6:20 pm.
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Several days ago, several people near Stephenville, Texas, apparently saw something in the sky that they did not recognize. For those who have not heard of Stephenville (and I expect that is almost everyone not from around these parts), it is a town SW of Fort Worth. With a population of about […]
Moon and Mars
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 3:13 pm.
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Tonight, if you go outside in the northern hemisphere, you’ll see the Moon and Mars very close together. The Moon moves its own with each hour. Over the course of a day, it moves about as far across the sky as the width of a hand held at arm’s length. So, last […]
The Moon and Mars
Published on 26 Nov 2007 at 3:32 pm.
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Tonight, if you go out and look towards the east, say at about 9pm or later, you will see the Moon. Very close to the Moon will be a reddish star. That “star” is no star! It is the planet Mars. The Moon moves around the sky, taking about 27.3 days […]
Parhelia
Published on 23 Nov 2007 at 10:20 pm.
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About a week or so ago, I was driving home and I looked up towards the Sun. It was late in the afternoon, and the Sun was fairly low in the sky. Off to either side of the Sun was a small rainbow pattern in the sky. They were parhelia (often called […]
Comet Holmes is suddenly news (after 2 weeks)
Published on 6 Nov 2007 at 12:27 am.
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Wow. Back on October 24, almost two weeks ago, I heard about the sudden outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes. I wrote about it hours after observing it. There was quite a bit of news about the comet around the internet. Just over a week ago, I posted a photograph of […]
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Venus in the Morning
Published on 31 Oct 2007 at 10:55 am.
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If you get up a little before dawn and look to the East, you can’t help seeing an extremely bright object in the sky. That is the planet Venus. There is no way to miss it (unless a tree or building is in the way!).
Venus outshines anything else in the sky except the […]
