As we enter November temperatures are beginning to drop making for a more bundled up stargazing experience. We are starting to see our familiar winter constellations come back into view and the cold dry nights actually provide some great seeing when the skies are clear. This week the Earth is passing through the debris trail […]
As we move forward into winter we are now privileged to have Orion and its many deep-sky objects back in our skies at reasonable observing times. As if to announce Orion’s return to our night skies the annual Orionids meteor shower begins in early October and will peak this year on October 22 with approximately […]
This Sunday (September 27, 2015) much of North America will be treated to a total lunar eclipse. The spectacle will be especially great because this will be a Supermoon eclipse. The term supermoon is popularly used to describe a full moon that occurs at or near the moon’s perigee, or closest point to earth in […]
The 2015 Okie-Tex Star Party is now history. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the organizers at the Oklahoma City Astronomy Club for all of their hard work in preparation and their efforts at the event. Everything went amazingly smoothly and the night skies were the best we have seen this year. Having […]
The map projection used for any planisphere is a flat representation of our spherical view of the cosmos. Some distortion of distance, scale, area, etc. always results from this process. In map projections commonly used in planispheres this distortion increases geometrically as distance from the center increases. In conventional planispheres the distortion can be extreme which makes […]
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