Busy schedules, light pollution, the weather: sometimes finding even just 30 minutes to stand and stare up at a clear, dark night sky and take in the planets, stars and constellations can be a feat in itself. So when you do find the time, you'll need to know what's visible in the...
The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special events like meteor showers. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although ...
And then there's the elephant in the room: satellite megaconstellations. Chief among them is SpaceX's Starlink broadband system, which currently consists of more than 6,100 operational satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), all of which have launched since 2018. OneWeb has built out its own ...
Given that broadband companies lack rivals in many cases, Starlink and other satellite internet constellations are a welcome injection of competition. More important, the service enables regions to get connected at broadband speeds where there were no options previously. For example, the Hoh Tribe, ...
So; Sit in your yard on a clear night, wait for your eye's to adapt, find the constellations/guide stars you know and look around them for the dimmest star you can see. Then go back to Stellarium, find those dim ones on the map "click" and read the magnitude,, ...
The ecliptic is the name given to the path the Sun follows through the stars and constellations over the course of a year. We can’t see the stars behind the Sun because of the bright blue sky. The only exception to this is when the sky turns dark during a total solar eclipse. The ...
Next time I'll try my Morpheus 9mm for 73x. Tonight was a good exercise in navigating the sky area around the Oph and Aquila constellations using an RDF and the SkySafari app on my iPad. I wanted 38x so that I would have roughly two degrees to work with. When my new Askar FM...
There is no better occasion to order a birthday star map than the birthday of your beloved one! Aren’t we all a bit curious how was the day we were born? Create the Star Map for your significant other, sibling, or parent showing them all the constellations on the sky. No doubt that...
The first unabashedly masculine Posset, and the first of The Constellations, Orion is probably the most recognizable star set out there. Possets rendition is woody in extremis but not obnoxiously loud. Very masculinely charming, outdoors in a very sophisticated way, a hard outside with a very ...
Written in the stars is our emotional fates and our destinies can only be altered if not sheer will, than by entire constellations of condolences: chocolate. May I never again experience the chaos that is mercury in retro(eighth)grade. In Response To: Your Kid’s Smartphone Posted on March...