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- Mar 31, 2016
- 4 min
Mayor's One-Stop Shopping
Thanks go to the mayor and city departments of South Bend, IN, who gathered in a gym with the public at the "Mayor's Night Out" on March...
- Feb 21, 2016
- 1 min
New Planet Landscape
Finally. Images beamed back from some bizarre landscape. The surface of Pluto? No, New Horizons did a Pluto flyby in 2015, but it did...
- Jan 20, 2016
- 3 min
At The Eyepiece When A Star Disappears
Lunar occultations make me giddy. They're so simple, yet so visually engaging. Tonight I had a telescope set up at Fiddler's Hearth on...
- Jan 19, 2016
- 1 min
Occultation at Fiddler's Hearth-Jan. 19
Did you see the moon and Aldebaran tonight? Some people may have dismissed it as being cloudy outside--and even snowing--but there they...
- Dec 8, 2015
- 3 min
Anticipating the Moon and Venus
I had been looking forward to seeing Venus astride the crescent moon. Instead, the moon occulted Venus and clouds occulted both. Here...
- Dec 3, 2015
- 2 min
Celestial Trifecta on Monday, Dec. 7
Monday, December 7, has three celestial highlights for observers in the South Bend, IN, region--a comet, an occultation, and satellite...
- Dec 2, 2015
- 2 min
Occult Skygazing at Fiddler's Hearth
Fiddler's Hearth will host a skygazing event to watch Venus get mooned Dec. 7, 2015. You can observe the moon passing in front of the...
- Nov 21, 2015
- 2 min
Venus Gets Mooned
The moon occults Venus midday on December 7 when the illuminated edge of the crescent moon glides in front of the planet. The obscured...