Posted on: November, 21st, 2019 | in Art, Meetings, Star Formation, Telescopes
Painting Credit: Vincent van Gogh Digital Rendering: MoMA, Google Arts & Culture, via Wikipedia Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh The painting Starry Night is one of the most famous icons of the night sky ever created. The scene was painted by Vincent van Gogh in southern France in 1889. The swirling style of Starry Night appears, to many, to […] Read more»
Posted on: November, 14th, 2019 | in Meetings, Mercury, Moon, Planets
Red Moon The day after the Mercury transit this week (Wednesday 13th November) we were able to view an exceptionally red moon in the east as it rose above the horizon. It’s redness was because of dust in the atmosphere from the Australian bush fires. Our president David Greig captured […] Read more»
Posted on: September, 8th, 2019 | in Earth, Jupiter, Meetings, Moon, Orion, Planets, Saturn, Solar System, Telescopes
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech Spitzer’s Orion Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1,500 light-years away. Spanning about 40 light-years across the region, this infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope was constructed from data intended to monitor the brightness of the nebula’s young stars, many still surrounded by […] Read more»
