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Asteroids, Astronomy, Comets, Skywatching

Happy Equinox! – A Perfect Time to See the Zodiacal Light

20 Mar , 2014 by Bob King

Welcome to the first day of spring! If you have a clear night between now and April 1, celebrate the new season with a pilgrimage to the countryside to ponder the eerie glow of the zodiacal light. Look for a large, diffuse, tapering cone of light poking up from the western horizon between 90 minutes […]

Clementine, comet, dust, gegenschein, zodiacal light

Astronomy, Moon

Oct. 7, 1959 – Our First Look at the Far Side of the Moon

7 Oct , 2013 by Bob King

For millennia, human eyes have seen only one face of the moon. Put a dude from the Iron Age in a time machine and whisk him to 2013 and he’d see the same pattern of light lunar highlands punctuated by dark grey spots you see. Night after night after night. That all changed 54 years […]

Clementine, far side, LRO, Luna 2, Mare Moscoviense, Moon, tidal locking, Tsiolkovsky

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