NASA publish first historic images of Endeavour docked at ISS
by yaska77 When Expedition 27 crew members Dmitry Kondratyev, Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli left the ISS aboard their Soyuz capsule, they paused briefly so ESA astronaut Nespoli could take the first...
View Article15th June Lunar eclipse saved by SLOOH!
by yaska77 We expected it didn’t we. A rare lunar eclipse, our scopes and cameras primed for an evening of hard use, and then the famous British weather rolled in covering most of the country in thick...
View ArticleUltimate Sky-Watching tool – Stellarium
by yaska77 Aside from the equipment we use to observe and record what we can see in the night sky, there is one indispensable aid we could not do without, and that is the computer planetarium called...
View ArticleMy starry starry night
by yaska77 Last night was a good night. One of those rare evenings where things just seem to go your way. They just worked. For the first time in a while now the skies were clear as darkness fell. So...
View ArticleNASA lands car-sized Curiosity rover on Mars – first images released
by yaska77 NASA has successfully landed the most advanced Mars rover ever built on the surface of the Red Planet. The one-tonne, car-sized Curiosity, hanging by cables from a “sky crane” (rocket...
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