Astroearth - by CMoreStars

A total eclipse occurred in Australia on November 14 2012. On May 10th 2013 in Northern Australia had what's called an Annular eclipse. An Annular eclipse occurs when the Moon does not completely cover the sun as it does in the case of a total eclipse. Both the total eclipse and the Annula...

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Friday May 10 2013 an Annular Solar can be seen over most parts of Australia. What is a solar eclipse An eclipse of the sun occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun. The them and the Moon is much smaller than sun to the tune of 400 times. The sun is 400 times larger th...

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After much thought I purchased the new model release AZ-EQ6GT mount. My previous mount HEQ5 pro worked well and my birthday was coming up It was time to get myself a new present. The AZ-EQ6GT mount. is very versatile it has dual function mount. It can be used as ALTAZ or EQ mode. Unit ar...

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Meteorites can be seen in the night sky . Many hundreds fall into the Earth's path on a daily basis most go unnoticed. Every decade or so we see a larger than normal object enter the Earth's atmosphere and create a birilant light display. The object that exploded over Russia in Februar...

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This year the first lunar eclipse of the year will be on early morning of April 26 2013. Eclipse's this year will be very sparse. A partial eclipse of the Moon occurs when the Moon goes through part of the earth's shadow. This particular lunar eclipse will be relatively short lasting arou...

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It seems that our solar system has more water than once though. Earth has vast amounts of water the Moon contains pockets of frozen water on the Moon's polar regions. Even Mars has water in the past it had large amounts of liquid water flowing on the surface. Even the closest planet t...

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Viewers in the Southern hemisphere will be able to see two comets this month. Comet Lemmon and comet Panstarrs.Comet Lemmon is now lowin southern horizon and will be harder to spot. Commencing in early March Panstarrs will be able to be seen in both the northern and southern hemispheres...

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One of many space visitors makes an approach to Earth on February. 15, 2013. Asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly between Earth and the orbits many geosynchronous satellites. Asteroid 2012 DA14 is the size of a large football field and will pass between the Moon and The Earth at a distance of about 2...

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Who would have thought that little Pluto could have so many Moons. P5 is the latest finding and was spotted by astronomers using the Hubble telescope. P5 is tiny just somewhere in the vicinity of 20 Kilometres in diameter. The tiny moon was discovered in July 2012. NASA's New Horizon space...

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The Orion Nebula is also known as Messier 42, M42,or NGC1976. The constellation of Orion is probably one the most popular constellation in the night sky. The constellation is easy to distinguish and perhaps one of the most photographed object in the night sky. The Orion nebula is one of th...

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No doubt the news of asteroid Apophis has made a flyby near Earth is of no major consequence. The data obtained by the fly-by that occurred on January 9, 2013 have refined Apophis' orbital parameters for next approach to Earth due in 2036. Apophis ia a relatively large asteroid roughly the s...

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The image above was taken using a DSLR camera and processed using Photoshop. Astrophotography al La "Cheap" Well not exactly "cheap' per say but it can be done on a budget. There are numerous well written even visual examples of how to take great astro photos without costing an arm or a l...

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Another years has just about past, it seems as you get older time seems to speed up. What the new brings who knows. The Fiscal cliff further world recession What every happens here on this world may impact on just all mankind. I guess we can take some comfort in that we are not alo...

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"" Well another end of the world "happening' has come and gone what a surprise, surprise we are still here! Don't you feel cheated ( yeah right). It seems these days that just about anyone can put forward a gloom and doom story and some people will still believe it can happen. While nothi...

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The probes named Ebb and Flow have reached the end of their mission. It's a great disappointment that no more human mission have taken place since the last Apollo mission. However given the cost of sending humans into space is much greater than sending robot probes as minions , from a huma...

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Now that summer is well and truly with us here in the southern hemisphere it is time to take the dust off those binoculars and telescopes. The visual constellations that are most prominent at this time are Orion and M45( the Pleiades) also known as the Seven sisters. Planet Jupiter is v...

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Contrary to some misguided beliefs the world will not end on December 21 2013. I guess everybody is entitled to an opinion, but in this case the evidence that a world ending apocalyptic event will take place belongs to the realms of science fiction. There are many parallels in ancient writ...

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Galaxy ESO 499-G37 happens to be a relatively young galaxy. 499-G37 is Located in the constellation of Hydra, ESO 499-G37 is located about 59 million light-years away from Earth. The galaxy belongs to the NGC 3175 group. The Hubble telescope imaged the galaxy at an angle that clearly s...

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November 14 2012 a total eclipse was seen over northern Queensland Australia early this morning. The rest of mainland Australia had a partial eclipse. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the total eclipse in Cairns however my location just south of Brisbane the Moon provided a great view at...

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Astrophotography has evolved in leaps and bounds over the last decade. In days of yore we used mostly 35mm film cameras. My early imaging attempts around the mid 70s were often disappointing. Heavy cameras ,film stock issues telescopes and tracking errors were often limiting factors in ob...

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