100 Hours of Astronomy - Photo Galleries

Posted by SpaceSightSeer on April 6, 2009 under Collections | Be the First to Comment

100 Hours of Astronomy

If you missed it, 100 Hours of Astronomy took place this weekend featuring over 1500 events and activities around the globe. There are over 50 galleries of images posted showing the weekend’s activities. Most of these galleries show people participating in watch parties around the globe. I’ll be updating this post with links to some of the better astronomy images.

Solar Physics Group (Flickr Gallery)

The Total Solar Eclipse of 1995

Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 5, 2009 under Celestial Events | Be the First to Comment

The Total Solar Eclipse of 1995

Fred Espenak of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Phyiscs led a group to Dundlod in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India, to observe the total solar eclipse of October 24, 1995. The Japanese Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) also captured partial eclipses during three of its orbits around the earth. This archive documents this rare event.