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WE SEE STARS — TOO MANY
We spent a couple of nights trying out the new Sky Scout from Celestron, a leading maker of telescopes. It’s a beautifully made piece of optical and electronic equipment for scouting the nighttime...
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HOLD THE PHONE
Hold the phone. No, we don’t mean Apple’s iPhone, which has received enough publicity to qualify as a galactic event. It’s a cell phone for making phone calls. What a radical thought. With no more...
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BOOKS
“Digital Astrophotography, A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos” by Stefan Seip; $30 from Rocky Nook Press, RockyNook.com. Almost everyone likes pictures of the stars and the planets. You need a telescope,...
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BOOKS
“Digital Astrophotography, A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos” by Stefan Seip; $30 from Rocky Nook Press, RockyNook.com. Almost everyone likes pictures of the stars and the planets. You need a telescope,...
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STARRY NIGHT
Anyone who has looked at the night sky has wondered about what they see. It would be nice to know if that bright star is Betelgeuse, in the belt of Orion the Hunter, or Polaris, the North Star that has...
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STAR GAZING
With a new free app called “Sky Map,” you can point an Android phone at the sky to identify what stars or planets you’re looking at. It uses the Android phone’s GPS locator and programming to calculate...
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SCIENCE NEWS HOUR AT PBS
Soap Film Magnified 150 Times PBS NewsHour just launched “PBS NewsHour Science” pbs.org/newshour/topic/science – the latest news in science, engineering and technology. We read about deaf dolphins,...
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LOOK UP
EarthSky.org shows you where to look for planets and star formations visible with the naked eye. Jupiter and Venus are visible in the eastern sky this month. Jupiter will be visible right through...
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X-RAY VISION AND BEYOND
The Milky Way Galaxy Chromoscope.net displays the Milky Way (our galaxy) in several wavelengths. If you were an alien with x-ray vision the galaxy would look quite different to you, so probably would...
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MAP APPS, EARTH AND BEYOND
— “Google Earth Pro,” which used to cost $400 a year, is now free. It can print much more detailed images, import thousands of addresses at once to be pinned on a map, capture high def videos of what’s...
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