Howards Astronomical Adventures
: Tales From The Night Sky
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KAO November: Guest Speaker
I was in Wichita last Saturday for the monthly Kansas Astronomical Observers (KAO) club meeting. I gave a talk introducing the Global Meteor Network, hopefully they found it interesting. The club meets at the Lake Afton Public Observatory. This … [ Read the rest ]
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Beyond Journey’s End
Last few days have been stressful with this election thing, fate of the world hanging in the balance kind of situation. So I’ve been distracting myself with watching and now reading a wonderful anime. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End This has … [ Read the rest ]
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Aurora over Lawrence
Thursday October 10 Earth was hit with the X1.8 coronal mass ejection (CME) that was launched in our direction a few days prior. This sparked aurora activity I first saw reported in NZ and western AU. Soon after Europe started … [ Read the rest ]
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Okie-Tex 2024: A Presentation
Sunday night before midnight the summer Milky Way shines above my tent. Facing west the sky was clear with good transparency. Night three under the wonderful dark skies of the Oklahoma panhandle. On Tuesday I was the opening afternoon presentor … [ Read the rest ]
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Okie-Tex 2024 : First Post
I’ve been at the 2024 Okie-Tex star party the past week! First let me say the skies were pretty good the entire time. It was clear almost every night. That’s a vast improvement over last years Okie-Clouds. Heck that’s a … [ Read the rest ]
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Tiny Eclipse
Last nights lunar eclipse was interesting, just a tiny bite taken out of the top of the moon at peak eclipse. Didn’t take any pictures of it, just went outside and watched it awhile. Be more interesting to see another … [ Read the rest ]
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One Year CoCoRaHS Anniversary
On this day one year ago I started reporting daily rainfall for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRAHS). Its been enlightening because I pay even more attention to the weather doing that. That’s saying something … [ Read the rest ]