Ben's Blog

Saw the Venus Transit today with my Meade ETX90-RA. I projected the sun onto the telescope manual:

When I went out to the car yesterday at 6:30am, I saw a bright object moving across the northern sky. It years past it could have been the Shuttle or Mir, but nowadays it had to be the International Space Station. Using NASA’s J-Pass webpage, I verified it was the ISS:

Surfing around on the web, I found the website for an experiment I participated in 16 years ago: building a simulated lunar base in an underground lava cave. In the picture below, from this article, we’re assembling the “sanitation unit” (read: toilet). I’m the fellow in the center of the picture in the [...]

As a member of the Rockland Astronomy Club, I have a permit to go observing at Wawayanda State Park all year ’round. This past Saturday night, the club had a scheduled viewing night there, so I packed up my stuff and headed out there for the first time. I took along Alan, one of [...]