Monday, May 19, 2025

Gerry Lebing

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Night Sky: The Eta Aquarids meteor shower and more highlights for May

A Closer Look at M87 M87 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. He classified it and eight other similar deep space objects as “Nebulous.” Through...

Night Sky: Lyrid meteor shower and more highlights for April

This is M88, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. M88 has a visual magnitude of +9.4 and is 65 million light years away...

Night Sky: Galaxy Quest, and more highlights for March

March is the Time for Galaxy Quest Every year, March signals the time for astronomers and astro-photographers to bring out their big scopes and start...

Night Sky: Visible planets and more highlights for February

Everybody Loves a Cluster with a Nebula This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster.   The bright stars that appear to...

Night Sky: Quadrantids meteor shower, and more highlights for January

Look to Orion! Orion is a very interesting constellate for several reasons. It’s probably one of the easiest constellations to find in the winter skies,...