Little did I know when writing the previous post that Google was cooking up SKY for their latest version (4.2) of GoogleEarth! Now, the greenest tyro can download GoogleEarth, click on Sky, and begin
When I was a member of the Albuquerque Astronomical Society, back in the 1970s, we all had our trusty star charts for finding objects in the night sky. These were big cardboard books with oval windows
The Center for Space Standards & Innovation has some interesting videos of earth orbiting satellites. The satellite destroyed by a missile launched from Xichang, Sichuan (China) is depicted in a h