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Code: Select all Lunar Eclipse of May 26, 2021 www.ancientstarlight.som Copyright: Drew Sullivan Series of images with Canon EOS and static mount from 0245H (PDT, start of eclipse) to sundown. I finally got an that image posted online here: http://www.ancientstarlight.com/sitebuilder/images/Lunar_E...

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Lunar Eclipse of May 26, 2021
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Copyright: Drew Sullivan


Series of images with Canon EOS and static mount from 0245H (PDT, start of eclipse) to sundown.

Addendum:
UC Santa Cruz, where Sandy Faber worked, has now been evacuated.

The Sun Weeps www.ancientstarlight.com Copyright: Drew Sullivan http://www.ancientstarlight.com/images/Tears%20of%20the%20Santa%20Cruz%20Mountains.jpg After a long dry spell numerous lightning strikes have caused multiple large, converging fires in Northern California. There are so many and they ar...

How Big Is That www.ancientstarlight.com Copyright: Drew Sullivan http://www.ancientstarlight.com/images/Earth_Mars_Jupiter_Saturn_to_Scale.jpg A comparison of the apparent sizes and actual sizes of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as they are visible in the sky now in late August. The image with a short d...

Here's lookin at you kid
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Copyright: Drew Sullivan Jupiter Aug 10, 2020 0450 UTC (sort of)

Ever think you are spending too much time processing images?

Lunar Eclipse January 31 2018
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Copyright: Drew Sullivan The image and information on capture can also be seen here:

http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Luna-Ec ... 01-31.html

Merope Veiled in Dust
http://www.ancientstarlight.comCopyright: Drew Sullivan Merope (just one of the seven sisters) and it's surrounding clouds of dust

The image is also here as a png:
http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Merope.html

Drew Sullivan

Ecliptic - Venus Jupiter Mars Mercury Align
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Copyright: Drew Sullivan The image is also available here, both with and without labels

http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Ecliptic_10202015.html

Drew Sullivan

Moon, Venus and Jupiter all setting http://www.ancientstarlight.com Copyright: Drew Sullivan http://www.ancientstarlight.com/images/Triple_Setting_b.jpg The moon, Venus and Jupiter align not only with each other but with the horizon at moonset (taken a few minutes later than the former image) The i...

Triple Setting of Moon, Venus, Jupiter http://www.ancientstarlight.com Copyright: Drew Sullivan http://www.ancientstarlight.com/images/Triple_Setting.jpg The moon, Venus and Jupiter line up not only with each other, but with the horizon at sunset July 18, Santa Cruz Mountains, California The image ...

Uranus and Lunar Eclipse 8 October 2014 http://www.ancientstarlight.com Copyright: Drew Sullivan http://www.ancientstarlight.com/images/Lunar_Eclipse_and_Uranus_2014-10-08.jpg A page with more details is here: http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Luna-Eclipse-2014-10-08_Moon_Uranus.html There is also a ...

Mars on the Ides
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Copyright: Drew Sullivan Mars on the Ides of Mars (0921 UTC March 15 2014)

Mars is nearing opposition. Here Olympus Mons peeps up through surrounding clouds

C/2011L4 PANSTARRS over the Santa Cruz Mountains
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Full Moon, Full Jupiter
The full moon and Jupiter, 2 degrees 20 min separation, rising through clouds 7PM PST 28 Nov (0100 UTC 29 Nov) 2012

Earlier in the evolution of the universe there were probably more numerous large concentrations of dense gas that became Globular Clusters.

Thanks. I think that is the information I was looking for.

Drew S.

I have two questions about Globular Clusters: 1) How (under what conditions) did GCs from? Did they start out as very compact objects or did they begin as more extended groups of stars that then coalesced? 2) Are GCs still forming in our galaxy or in any other galaxies at present? If not, were they ...

Venus in IR G UV



Celestron C14, Flea3 camera. Astrodon UV (Blue-Green color), Astronomiks G and IR filters.

Webpage here:

http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Venus_03_03-2012.html

3 March 2012

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Venus and Jupiter at Dusk over the Santa Cruz Mountains, California
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Ten Billion Light Years http://www.ancientstarlight.com Copyright: Drew Sullivan http://www.ancientstarlight.com/images/Jones1_10Gly.jpg Just below the blue nebula, Jones 1, lies J233604.7+302355, a quasar with z = 2.094 corresponding to a distance of about 10.2 billion light years. The fact that J...

Io Rising over Jupiter Sept 27 2011
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Are any or all of these statements true: 1) The first law of thermodynamics isn't really a law. (I know it doesn't apply at very small scales where virutal particles can appear/disappear but this is a macroscopic, long lasting system. Is the first law just a Newtonian approximation?) 2) The answer t...

I did read this thread before posting and from the fact that my question got moved here I gather the answer may be here somewhere but if so I don't see/understand the answer.

Any insight into this? Are you implying that there is a GR solution?

Drew Sullivan

Suppose there are two rocks, galaxies, whatever. They are a certain distance apart, and falling towards each other. This system has a potential and a kinetic energy and the total energy of the system remains constant. Now suppose I reach in and drag the two farther apart. There is now more potential...