Texas Eclipse

Join the Facebook Event

This is a blog about a Facebook Event. So use your Facebook and click this link to ‘Save the Date’ for when the eclipse comes to Texas: https://www.facebook.com/events/349561385498438/permalink/

Jupiter/Saturn on their first date in 800 year

Worth taking a look. This is the first romantic encounter between the two great gas giants since March 4, 1226. That’s pretty cool. Could they be married? It’s good they still wear their rings. You can see the two planets in the night sky until […]

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If you are seeing this, then I have finally figured out how to post. Huzzuh! I just want to thank Chad for making this all possible.

What if I miss the Texas Eclipse?

So if you miss this Eclipse, you won’t be able to see another total Eclipse in the United States until August 23, 2044 which will hit Montana, Canada, and Greenland. Then in August 12, 2045 we get another good one. You won’t be able to […]

An Asteroid with it’s own moon!?!

The asteroid was named 243 Ida in 1884 by astronomer, brewer and beer drinker, Moriz von Kuffner. Ida was a wood nymph in Greek mythology and one of the nurses that cared for the infant Zeus. Dude, people that love the night sky, are really […]

The Earth during Eclipse!

Were you wondering what it would look like if you were up in an UFO during the Texas Eclipse? Check out these Eclipse photos taken from Space… spaacee… Spaaaaaaaasssssssseeeee…. Of course in 2024 it will be better because it’s Texas and all that. This one […]

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse visible from Dallas Fort Worth

The Earth’s Shadow will be on the moon, basically. November 30, 2020 at 1:32 AM So just imagine that the Sun, the Earth and the Moon are lined up. From our perspective, if you were at the Sun, then you probably wouldn’t notice. Even then, […]

Quadrantids in the January Sky

Sunday January 3rd, 2021 Astronomers have known about these ‘shooting stars’ since 1825, but you are just hearing about it. Some have considered renaming them after the constellation Boötes. Then I guess you would have heard them because they would be called the Bootids. Which […]