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Cloudy Nights still has major issues after website upgrade
Thursday, October 16, 2025 by Richard Harris
For over two decades, Cloudy Nights has been a bit of a gathering place for amateur astronomers worldwide, along side Astromart, Astrobin, Stargazers lounge, and others. But recently this popular forum has experienced an unplanned “eclipse” of its own, it went largely dark starting...
NASA team installs solar panels on roman space telescope observatory
Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
Technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently installed the solar panels onto the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This installation marked one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun Shield, the panels ar...
Tele Vue goes to space
Monday, March 24, 2025 by Richard Harris
The PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission marks a significant milestone in heliophysics, space engineering, and collaborative instrumentation. Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, PUNCH comprises four small satellites designed to provide an unprecedented look into the ...
Moon GPS signals acquired by NASA
Friday, March 14, 2025 by Richard Harris
NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals on the Moon’s surface. Image credit: NASA The LuGRE payload’s success in lunar orb...