All About Size Video

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Out in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of N. Iceland.

Pretty nifty video about sizes in astronomy.



Sky Guy at Sea

UPDATE ON ROVER OPPORTUNITY

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At sea headed to Iceland and hopefully Aurora and Noctilucent Clouds. Really want to get pictures of them to add to my book which is at the publisher.

Side-by-side movies shows how dust has enveloped the Red Planet, courtesy of the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) wide-angle camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Latest on Opportunity.

Sky Guy at Sea

MILKY WAY VIDEO

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Tune in to the center of our Milky Way Galaxy



Quite the video from ESO!

Sky Guy at Sea

PARKER SOLAR PROBE LAUNCHED

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GREAT night at Shenandoah National Park Night Sky Festival as the clouds cleared and we saw about a dozen Perseids including some bright ones and the glorious Milky Way!

Tonight is the Perseids peak so get out and see them!

NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe today so its off to the Sun and history.




I hope to see some Aurora on my next voyage which are caused by Earth's interaction with the Sun.

Sky Guy in VA

SKY GUY VIEWING ALERT!!!! THE PERSEIDS ARE HERE

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The annual Perseid Meteor Shower is underway now and is expected to peak the night of August 12-13. With the Moon being at New phase for this year's shower from a dark sky site you could see about one Perseid a minute.

The Perseid meteors appear to stream away from the shower's "radiant" point near the border of Perseus and Cassiopeia.
Sky & Telescope

Bright 2016 Perseid
Greg Redfern

Sky Guy in VA

WATCH THIS COMET SAIL BY

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NASA's news planet finder TESS photographed a comet......it's well worth a look!



Sky Guy in VA

A BIT OF PLUTO CONTROVERSY

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Here is an interesting article on a but of Pluto controversy.......

Sorry to be so short but book is due ti publisher on Thursday....

Sky Guy Greg