Saturn’s Rings Transit In 1989 I observed the transit of a 28 Sgr or γ2 Sagittarii, a fairly bright star, and Saturn’s Rings. Such an event does not happen all that often with a star of that brightness at around magnitude …
Kemble’s Cascade – a beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling Kemble’s Cascade (designated Kemble 1) is an asterism located in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is an apparent straight line of more than 20 colourful 5th to 10th magnitude stars over …
Jupiter from Ralf Klein Park Each picture tells a story and this one it’s in the title: Jupiter from Ralf Klein Park. This one is clearly a composite of two photos, each with a different exposure time. I enlarged the …
Mars Opposition 1988 Mars reached opposition, (Mars Opposition 1988) when it was opposite to the Sun in the sky in September 1988. Lying in the constellation Cetus, it was visible for much of the night, reaching its highest point in …
Sextans Dwarf Spheroid The Sextans Dwarf Spheroid is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that was discovered in 1990 by Mike Irwin as the 8th satellite of the Milky Way, located in the constellation of Sextans. It is also an elliptical galaxy, …
Sextans A Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A (also known as UGCA 205) is a small dwarf irregular galaxy. It spans about 5000 light-years across, and is located at 4.3 million light-years away, in the outskirts of the Local Group of galaxies, …
Moon 8th Day The weather was agreeable and the sky was clear, so its a good time to go out and take a look at the Moon, It turns out that the time was the best time to see a …
