Helena Astronomy

04/22/2019

04/10/2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/world/black-hole-photo-scn/index.html

In April 2017, scientists used a global network of telescopes to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole, according to an announcement by researchers at the National Science Foundation Wednesday morning. They captured an image of the supermassive black hole and its shadow at the cente...

03/08/2019

https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-returns-to-earth.html

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

01/28/2019

If you ever get an opportunity to visit the McDonald Observatory in West Texas you will be blown away!!

The 12-meter radio dish for the new McDonald Geodetic Observatory (MGO) has arrived and is now being assembled at a site near the Frank N. Bash Visitors Center. For more info on MGO, which will be operated by the UT Center for Space Research, see the link below. Photo by Frank Cianciolo/McDonald Observatory.

https://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/20180820

01/22/2019

Here's a time lapse of our viewing of Sunday night's Lunar Eclipse (01/20/2019.)

January Super Wolf Blood Moon Eclipse Time Lapse. Comprised of about 60 still shots.

01/21/2019

01/20/2019

https://sites.google.com/view/helenaastronomy/upcomingevents/lunareclipsejan2019?fbclid=IwAR0v-8BZbdHbSocZ4Rmodi8yHUl7YMD1NFhe41M7F6USkPLTmBEVTbtkwMM

01/17/2019

https://sites.google.com/view/helenaastronomy/upcomingevents/lunareclipsejan2019

If you like the Farmer's Almanac names of our Moon, then this will be the "Super Blood Wolf Moon" and will be the last combination of those three astronomical events for 18 years. ("Super" indicates that the Moon is closest to Earth in it's orbit (and technically this makes it appear larger in the s...

12/03/2018

https://www.space.com/42600-soyuz-spacex-rocket-launches-asteroid-webcast.html

NASA has a busy schedule Dec. 3, with a trio of astronauts launching to the space station and a spacecraft arriving at its asteroid target.

11/26/2018

https://blogs.nasa.gov/insight/2018/11/26/nasas-insight-spacecraft-has-touched-down-on-mars/

NASA’s InSight Spacecraft Has Touched Down on Mars Mission controllers at NASA-JPL have received a signal from NASA’s InSight lander on the Mars surface via MarCO OR a beep from InSight’s X-band radio. In the coming hours, engineers will be checking on the spacecraft’s health. A post-landing...

09/09/2018

Two of our members took home 3 Blue Ribbons from the Tri-County Fair Photography contest.

The Moon photo was taken by our youngest member through one of the homemade cell-phone-to-telescope adapters we learned to make in one of our monthly meetings.