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PiFinder update restores Comets menu and equipment deletion crashes

Thursday, June 19, 2025 by Richard Harris

PiFinder version 2.2.1 has been released, and while it's a small update, it fixes a couple of specific issues that were affecting some users. The biggest fix is the return of the Comets menu item, which had gone missing under the “Objects” section. That’s now back in place. This update also fixes several crash scenarios tied to the newer equipment ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS to become visible to the naked eye soon

Saturday, June 15, 2024 by Richard Harris

The universe has another treat in store for 2024. Following the recent total solar eclipse and sudden solar superstorms, astronomers are now turning their attention to Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3), which promises to become the “comet of the year” and potentially a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, discovered in February 2023 by...

Astronomy Picture of the Day

2026-04-04

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From pole to pole our fair planet is captured in this snapshot from space, an evocative image from a window of the Orion spacecraft Integrity. From the spacecraft's perspective the Sun is moving behind Earth's bright limb along the lower right. Africa and the Iberian peninsula are in view on the pale blue planet's surface, while aurorae crown Earth's south and north poles at top right and bottom left. Commander Reid Wiseman took the historic picture on Artemis II mission flight day 2 (April 2), after the completion of the planned translunar injection burn. That burn boosted the spacecraft out of Earth orbit, sending Integrity and crew on a trajectory that will take them around the Moon and back again. That's a journey humans last made over 50 years ago.