Archive for the ‘Astronomy’ Category

Astronomy resources and calendars

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Curt Renz maintains an excellent site with resources on Astronomy and what to see on any given night. I especially love his Monthly Astronomical Calendar. He also has details on all the planets and Meteor Showers. Must go for all astronomy lovers ...

Telescope on the Web – Online Astronomy

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

SLOOH Is a great resource for people without telescopes. For 50$ a year you can observe one of the telescopes that telecast their observations to this website. A great way to do astronomy using big telescopes for cheap!!. ...

Planetoriums in the San Francisco Bay Area

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Here is a list of some great planetoriums in the San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland area. Lawrence Hall of Science Planetarium | Lawrence Hall of Science ...

Star gazing OR: Double stars in the big dipper

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Tonight was my first night with an old Celestron C8* SCT telescope that I recently assembled. The scope is not in very good shape and it took me a little while to adjust to working with it. Thankfully, the motor drive works well so it can track stars. The biggest ...

Calstar 2008

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Here are some useful links for this year's CalStar party at San Antonio lake.  Have a happy star gazing experience. http://www.sjaa.net/calstar/ The exact program schedule is on the following link http://www.sjaa.net/calstar/CalStar2008Program.pdf