
- Nov 25, 2019
- 2 min
Watch Space Station Bisect Moon--Repeatedly
You've seen pictures of the International Space Station (ISS), but have you ever actually seen it? If you can steady on the moon with a...


- Jun 25, 2016
- 1 min
Big Scope Added at AstroCamp
AstroCamp has added a very big telescope to its array of equipment used by youths to observe deep space objects. The Obsession...

- Apr 1, 2016
- 5 min
Alula, Tania, and Talitha
Night action awaits visitors to Michiana the weekend beginning May 6, 2016. The eighth Michiana Star Party (MSP8) offers you stillness...


- 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...


- May 31, 2015
- 2 min
Scopes on The SB150 Green
South Bend, IN, celebrated its sesquicentennail Birthday Weekend on May 22-24, 2015, beginning with the dedication of its new River...


- Mar 20, 2015
- 2 min
Training at Yerkes
I envision the day when a kid from a middle school in South Bend can go online and access a research-grade telescope to capture and...


- May 21, 2014
- 1 min
Gelatin Telescope
Gelatin Telescope Posted by admin on May 21, 2014 Ruth Craft, former director of the planetarium at Kennedy Primary Academy in South...

- Feb 21, 2014
- 4 min
The Fahey Telescope
The Fahey Telescope Posted by admin on February 20, 2014 In 2011, Fr. Jim Fahey resurrected the mirror from an old telescope and machined...


- Feb 6, 2014
- 5 min
Buying a Telescope Eyepiece
Buying a Telescope Eyepiece Posted by admin on February 5, 2014 After observing a supernova in M82 with a telescope during a cold winter...

- May 18, 2013
- 3 min
Let's Look at the Sun
Let's Look at the Sun Posted by admin on May 18, 2013 We on earth are vulnerable to the sun's vagaries. While the sun sustains life, a...