Members Reports

The Condor Array Telescope (A Free, Virtual Lecture)

By Donna McCormick posted 2 days ago

This free, virtual lecture is open to the public and will occur on Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 19:00. Registration is required for this free, virtual event. Go to: https://bit.ly/CondorTalk Hamptons Observatory and co-host, Amagansett Library, are honored to present a free, virtual lecture by eminent astronomer, Professor Kenneth M. Lanzetta. A new type of astronomical telescope—built by an international team of students and researchers--has attracted significant scientific and popular attention. The Condor Array Telescope is an “array telescope” that is made up of six off-the-shelf refracting telescopes coupled with six off-the-shelf large-format ...

ARROWS FROM SAGITTARIUS

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 2 days ago

ARROWS FROM SAGITTARIUS By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe When I looked through the telescope at the constellation Sagittarius, the centaur Chiron replied to me with a lot of challenging arrows disguised as stars, nebulae, star clouds and star clusters. Some of them were very hot: the stars in an asterism called Teapot. #poetry

ECLIPSES

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 5 days ago

ECLIPSES By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe Unfortunately, in the 21st century, people did not keep our planet clean, the sky became more and more cloudy, and now, in the 22nd century, during a total solar eclipse (the most beautiful astronomical phenomenon), I can only go to the Moon and see an eclipse of the Earth. #poetry

DRAW A LINE

By Mirosław Wójcik posted 6 days ago

Image details: Artist’s impression of a fast radio burst traveling through space and reaching Earth Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1915a/ --- | DRAW A LINE | D raw a line. Maybe parallel to or considerably above space-time we know Though it's unbounded, possesses unique, still incomprehensible, ability to create inter-dimensional flow Fed by curiosity we're conscious of plenitude of astounding worlds somewhere overhead Things get complicated yet if you consider we're * not the only beings… Draw a line! Reach for imagination. It'll make ** limitations *** ...

What’s Going On

By Harley White posted 6 days ago

What’s Going On What’s going on in stellar skies perchance eludes our earthly eyes or mortal minds to e’er discern regardless how we strain and yearn or hazard to hypothesize. Do galaxies ‘midst birthing cries beget their astral enterprise plus further realms to forge in turn what’s going on? Will we acquire awareness wise enough to grasp what might arise if Nature be inclined to spurn our worldly ways, in manner stern— still could Mankind yet realize what’s going on? ...

Outreach in Community School of Nepal

By Ankit Khanal posted 9 days ago

On May 12, 2023 the team of AWB-Nepal successfully conducted an Astronomy Outreach at Shree Swochchhand Bhairav Secondary School, Thaha Municipality-9, Makwanpur, Nepal. The school is a community based school and one of the oldest school of Nepal established in 2014 B.S. We conducted a day and night observation program with the students and teachers of the school. The students were deprived of such kind of outreach activities thus they were curious and excited during the program and were very eager of gaining knowledge based on Astronomy and Space science especially.

A QUARREL BETWEEN TWO ASTRONOMERS

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 11 days ago

A QUARREL BETWEEN TWO ASTRONOMERS By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe How can you admire deep sky objects without looking at the Evening Star? – wondered an amateur astronomer. How can you admire the Evening Star without looking at deep sky objects? – wondered a professional astronomer. Why do you speak in foreign languages? – a passer-by finally asked the two. #poetry

CELESTIAL INSECTARIUM

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 12 days ago

CELESTIAL INSECTARIUM By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe When I was a child, I visited a museum where I saw an insectarium. Last night I dreamed of the Crab Nebula and I understood that, in some cases, even the sky can be an insectarium. Yes, - I was woken up by a southern voice (it was the Tarantula Nebula) - but this is a living insectarium! #poetry

Not Always

By Harley White posted 13 days ago

Not Always When galaxies pass others by and make a ‘taffy-pulling’ change they call them ‘tugs of war’, but why, for might these be a rearrange of non-anthropomorphic scheme? Not always are things what they seem. A photo snapped by Hubble scope of galaxy termed NGC seven seven one four flings rope as though a passageway to flee that’s faintly visible in stream, if looks were strictly what they seem. At right, unseen, outside of frame, another galaxy, it’s said, with one ascending number name of that portrayed in stellar spread is playing part within the team. Things ...

M74

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 16 days ago

M74 By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe New images from the Universe made me wonder if the Phantom of the Opera movie is a cosmic reflection of the Phantom galaxy in the constellation Fishes. Thank you very much, Space Telescope, and my best wishes! #poetry

Global Star Party and SunDay

By Valentina Matei posted 20 days ago

The Astronomy and Space Science Club from Oradea, organized educational activities and in person observation, in Oradea, Romania on April 28-th. GAM 2023

HUBBLE AND WEBB

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 22 days ago

HUBBLE AND WEBB By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe Sometimes I think I live in another galaxy, said astronomer Edwin Hubble. It all depends on the construction of the flight, said bureaucrat James Webb. The Sparkler Galaxy was sending mysterious signals. Things are not what they seem, said the Hubble Telescope. And no one is omniscient, said the Webb Telescope. #poetry

Watch Today's Lunar Eclipse

By Andrew Fazekas posted 24 days ago

In a matter of a few hours today, Friday, May 5th, there will be a penumbral lunar eclipse that will be visible across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific region. AWB's National Coordinator for Italy, @Gianluca Masi of Virtual Telescope Project will be livestreaming this sky event from Italy. If you do catch the eclipse, please share your experience, observations and photos with us by filing a Member Report or adding to our Discussion Board . Not an AWB Member yet? Join our global community in over 140 countries by simply registering here - it's easy and free! What is this kind of eclipse? A penumbral lunar eclipse is a type of ...

FreedOM Radio 'Yes to Radio, Yes to Peace, Yes to Trust'

By Ripudaman Randhawa posted 25 days ago

World Radio Day celebrates a ‘unique instrument of peace’. This years 2023 theme for UN World Radio day was 'Radio and Peace', as previous years 2022 theme was 'Radio and Trust'; on this day, we discuss the world, through Peace, Trust & Prosperity; my humble sonic submission, FreedOM Radio show format, a sonic journey; live dj performance podcast, Namaste.RR Link > https://hearthis.at/onkarsound/freedomradio/ Onkar Sound #onkarsound Independent Artist 'Not On Label' https://www.discogs.com/artist/145452-Rips Radio FreedOM Podcast Live Mix, Demo Mix. (Languages, English, Spanish, Russian, Hindi) Originally recorded on June 09, 2021 ...

Starry Fabric

By Harley White posted 26 days ago

Starry Fabric All nature’s linked, the heavens with the earth, in star formations, gas, galactic dust, elusively in roles of death and birth however random seems their wanderlust. We peer in space with telescopic sight that oft may miss the tracery that’s there as when our past assumptions take to flight in view of being further made aware. Vast fabrics interwoven in the sky that starry gazers spy amidst the mists and what immensities they might imply may only be a whit of what exists. …The poets with their phrases hem and haw …yet fail to other than profess their awe. ~ Harley ...

OAO-AWB Smartphone Astrophotography Workshop

By Eden Orion posted 28 days ago

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SARM FOR GAM 2023

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 04-26-2023

SARM FOR GAM 2023 A Mini-Anthology of Astropoetry By the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) English translations from Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH 2023 By Valentin Grigore Spring brings us joy, Sun and trees in bloom, raw green and chirping birds. But this year spring comes with something special. Towards the end of April, spring brings us a small meteor shower generated by Comet Thatcher, discovered in April 1861, meteors radiating from the constellation Lyra. Also, at this time of year, when the nights are still quite long, we will be able to admire the ...

Stellar Realms

By Harley White posted 04-26-2023

Stellar Realms The stellar realms their laws obey regardless what our scopes display or how we wriggle facts around in outer space, on earthly ground, to match what present pundits say. For truth is truth whate’er the sway of those who mark our mortal stay while in reality are found the stellar realms. With reaches deeper than one may yet fathom in the mind’s array— enlightenment beyond the bound— but oh delusion’s sleep is sound— inhere within and faraway the stellar realms. ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is in the ...

"Space Craze: Exploring Space History & Sci-Fi through the Smithsonian's Artifacts" (A Free, Virtual Lecture)

By Donna McCormick posted 04-23-2023

Registration is required for this free, virtual event. Go to: https://bit.ly/SpaceCrazeTalk Hamptons Observatory and co-host, Southampton Arts Center , are pleased to present a free, virtual lecture by Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, Curator & Chair of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. In this special evening, you’ll experience a space historian's tour through the history of spaceflight and space science fiction, as demonstrated through the Smithsonian's collection of space and science fiction memorabilia. Dr. Weitekamp’s talk will be based on her new book, Space Craze (Smithsonian Books, 2022). Spanning ...