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The problem: 6 peeling, light-polluting fixtures grace the exterior of the secretary of the Palm Beach County chapter of the International Dark-Sky Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the reduction of light pollution and skyglow. The solution: a trip to the local Lowe’s home center and a little “sweat equity” as they say on those [...] [...] 
The Hunter’s moon rises nearly or completely full over three successive nights at nearly the same time each night. On Eastern Daylight Time this year, the nights of the 27th, 28th, and 29th, at 5:21, 5:57, and 6:35, respectively. Full moon is today at 3:50 p.m. EDT, but this shot was taken last night right [...] [...] 
The 2012 harvest moon occurs tonight at 11:19 p.m. EDT. Only 395,493 km from Earth tonight. Libration, as you can see, is quite southern (see how far the bright crater Tycho is from the bottom edge?), and a bit of the eastern limb is more visible as well (if you know your selenography, you can [...] [...] Late this morning, Earth’s orbit around the sun brought it to the equinoctial point. Today the sun rises due east and sets due west. But despite the etymological indication of “equal night,” day length and night length are only approximately equal today. (For more on this, see my post from 2009.) How closely equal they are [...] [...] 
The second full moon in August (well, about 12 hours before full). I found my digiscope camera! Despite what the Clear Sky Clock for Boca Raton says, this evening had nothing but high clouds and haze overhead, so while the naked eye views through the eyepiece were steady and beautiful, the camera view was a [...] [...] This year and next year, the month of August will bring you the two different definitions of the term blue moon. As you know, every 2.7 years the twelve months of the calendar feature thirteen full moons. There are only twelve full moon names, though, so when a “year” has thirteen moons, you have to [...] [...] 
July’s full moon is sometimes known as the Thunder Moon. No thunder tonight here in Boca, apart from a few wiseacres testing their squibs for tomorrow’s celebration of Independence Day. But we do have plenty of moisture in the air, robbing my pictures of clarity. Nevertheless, here is this month’s full moon: [...] 
Hello, there! Now that we’re already a couple of days past the new moon, it’s high time once again for the monthly snapshot of the full moon. (I say snapshot because that’s really what it is. If and when I ever get an imaging system that works with my telescope gear, I’ll “upgrade” the name [...] [...] Today the sun is above the horizon longer than on any other day of the year. It’s also the day the sun “stands still” in declination: that is, it stops moving north from one sunrise/sunset to the next, and starts moving south. And, as we Northern Hemisphere types recall, when the sun’s in the south [...] [...] 
Last Tuesday the second planet from the sun passed in front of the sun’s disk for the second and last time this young century. Back in 2004, I saw the first event briefly while parked outside a gas station trying to get out from under the clouds that had blocked us at our chosen observing [...] [...] |
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