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Bobaids Meteor Shower
Blackholes and astrostuff | June 3rd 2008 by Bob Johnson
I hadn't planned on getting up at 1:00 am Saturday May 31st, I had been out the night before and got some images of the stars and our galaxy and thought I'd take it easy and actually sleep a whole night, but I awoke at 1:00 am and wasn't tired, so I read more
Roogoo Achievements Announced, Screens
Aeropause - The goods on gaming | May 29th 2008
SouthPeak Interactive has released several new screenshots and the achievement list for their new upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game Roogoo. Roogoo has you working your way through 45 levels, where you navigate floating meteors through the floating landm read more
Astro-philatelics, part 14
Common Themes | May 21st 2008
Colorful stamps from a confined, constrained, censored country. read more
Aquarid Meteor Shower
Blackholes and astrostuff | May 7th 2008 by Bob Johnson
Got some super cool shots of the Aquarid Meteor shower, the Milky Way and Jupiter showed up to play. The weather was perfect, no wind and around +2c. At 3:30 Sunday morning it was very quite except for a lot of critter noises, there were, ducks, frog read more
Moon, Jupiter Conjunction
Blackholes and astrostuff | May 2nd 2008 by Bob Johnson
Sunday April 27th. in the early morning hours we had a Lunar, Jupiter conjunction, how early, well it started as the pair rose, around 2:47 am. That's right 2:47 am, now you'd think everyone in their right mind would probably be asleep at that time, read more
Fireball in The Sky
Blackholes and astrostuff | April 29th 2008 by Bob Johnson
So I was out trying to image another Sunset when out of the blue a fireball appeared. To give you some idea of how rare these fireballs are, a trained observer, such as moi, can expect to be treated to one, once every 200 observing hours, factor in t read more
Conjunctions, Meteor shower and Martian Landing
Blackholes and astrostuff | April 26th 2008 by Bob Johnson
Got a cool image a couple days after the peak of the Lyrid shower when the Moon hadn't risen yet, above, while I was watching the meteor it looked odd, when I got home did the processing noticed the reason, either 2 meteors side by side or one broke read more
The Lyrid Meteor Shower
Blackholes and astrostuff | April 22nd 2008 by Bob Johnson
Just a few hours before I took the above pic it was snowing so much that you couldn't see a few feet in front of you, but the Clear Sky Clock for my area said clear skies between 1:00 and 4:00 am, it has never let me down before so I got everything r read more
Mars and Saturn Lunar Conjunctions
Blackholes and astrostuff | April 19th 2008 by Bob Johnson
We had a couple of Lunar conjunctions, on April 11th. there was the Mars/ Moon conjunction, the image above, I had clear skies for that one and with the earthshine made for a pretty picture. The image below was the Saturn /Lunar conjunction of April read more
Meteor Explodes over California
My Paranormal Life | March 14th 2008 by Rand
Well, not explode exactly, here's the description:"Filmed March 13, 2008: Southern California - In the beginning I was convinced I was witness to a UFO, I have never seen anything like it before. Explosions was heard... More» 4-5min later. (If your read more
The difference between star like stuff
Living a Passion | February 4th 2008 by Shah
I promised a good friend that I would find out the difference between an asteroid and a comet, after he read about my recent post on the asteroid passing by earth pretty soon. So, here it goes. I had the luck of chancing upon this article...As quoted read more
Pretty Cool Meteor Video
My Paranormal Life | January 21st 2008
Been awhile again I know, but I'm just having me some summer fun, water squirts with the hose. I haven't checked my feed reader in about 7 days, so that's gonna be fun trolling through.Here's a short clip of a meteor, finding info on such clips is li read more
Fireball In The Sky!!
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 19th 2008 by Bob Johnson
The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon campus caught an awesome fireball Saturday January 5th. 9:05 pm. My hats off to the staff and students for having a camera on top of the chemistry building to capture such events, too cool for school!A fir read more
Pixels/Icons: Various Atmospheres
Common Themes | January 16th 2008
IconBuffet has several versions of their “Atmospheres” icons, which feature weather elements, moons and suns, stars, aliens, ufos and comets/meteors. They are all worth a look-see; personally, Oslo Atmosphere is my favorite. (If inte read more
Campanus Crater
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 9th 2008 by Bob Johnson
UPDATE: The chances of asteroid 2007 WD 5 hitting Mars are now 1 in 10,000. Observations from 4 different observatories have indicated the asteroid will come no closer then 4,000 kms. to Mars.The above image is the location of my acreage on the Mo read more
Quadrantids and Orion The Mighty Hunter
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 5th 2008 by Bob Johnson
People I'm soo happy! Got my first image of a Meteor, a Quadrantids meteor no less. Left my house at 12:30 am Friday morning and headed out to a predetermined spot I had scoped out earlier, just on the outskirts of town. Had done my homework, read th read more
Prairie Sunset
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 2nd 2008 by Bob Johnson
UPDATE: Due to new observations made of asteroid 2007 WD5, December 29, 31 and January 2, the chances of the asteroid impacting Mars are now 1 in 28, down from 1 in 25. Stay tuned for further developments.Got a break in the clouds last night and was read more
December 12 UPDATES
GeorgaHackworth.net | December 13th 2007 by Raven Suicide
Yes, I know, I am posting things late tonight and that technically it is December 13. It is late, I am tired, so tonights blog is not going to be all that cohesive. I came across something today called the Education Begins at Home Act and got my p read more
Meteor Showers Caught on Video
My Paranormal Life | December 12th 2007 by Rand
This is a great compilation of Meteors caught on video, what's amazing to me is how the flashes seem to turn night into day. I've experienced something like that but for the life of me I can't remember when, what and why, it was either a fireworks di read more
Be Sure to Catch the “Gems”
Academy Up the Hill | December 11th 2007 by Jenny-up the hill
This Thursday and Friday nights (Dec. 13-14) are supposed to be the best nights to view the Geminid meteor shower. The moon will be in the waxing crescent phase so it should be fairly dark which will make seeing the meteor shower easy! Of course, read more
Phaethon Cometh
The Mendicant Bug | December 7th 2007 by Jason Adams
One of the dark horses of the inner solar system makes its closest approach to Earth since it was discovered in 1983 soon. Phaethon is an asteroid (perhaps the burnt out core of a comet). We pass through its debris trail every December, resulting read more
Blogging Zoom Zooming | Internet Marketing | Strategy & Services
The Tao of Blog | November 18th 2007 by Pablo
I have just taken a look at Courtney Tuttle's recent posting regarding Bloggingzoom's meteoric rise in popularity.(Now there's a phrase which defies actuality. Meteors, in their natural habitat of space never rise or fall, no up or down in space.You read more
Leonid Meteor Shower
The Mendicant Bug | November 16th 2007 by Jason Adams
This weekend will be the peak time for the Leonid meteor shower. It is so-named because the meteors originate from the section of the sky corresponding to the constellation Leo. The most locateable star in Leo is Regulus, which rises these days jus read more
Video Friday (vacation edition)
Surface Tension | November 16th 2007 by Thom Gabrukiewicz
For a time there, I was a freaking mess.The time leading up to a vacation is tough. Stressful. I ended up banking enough stories for two weeks at work, then rushed home to put together gear/clothing for basically two trips.If you’re going to go on read more
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