Skyward for July, 2024
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By David H. Levy

The wonderful visit of Olbers’s Comet.

On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, David Rossetter and I headed out for our monthly observing session at the Chirichuaha astronomy complex, the dark site of the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association. In addition to the normal 2 hours of comet searching I did that evening, David located Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, a bright 10th magnitude comet with a pretty dust tail.… Continue reading.

Upcoming Events Through July 7
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July 3: Astrophotography Special Interest Group (ASIG) – Meeting 1 of 2 https://www.denverastro.org/events/astrophotography-special-interest-group-asig-meeting-1-of-2-5/?occurrence=2024-07-03

July 5-7: DAS Dark Sky Weekend (DAS Members Only) https://www.denverastro.org/events/dark-sky-weekend July 6: Kline-Dodge Dark Site Orientation (DAS Members Only) https://members.denverastro.org/event-5647518

JOIN DAS TODAY! https://www.denverastro.org/membership/

 

SKY MAPS FOR JULY

https://www.skymaps.com/skymaps/tesmn2407.pdf… Continue reading.

Upcoming Events Through June 30

Upcoming Events Through June 30
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DAS E-Board Meeting, Makers Special Interest Group, Mars Webinar, Galaxy Season, Arcturus & Vega, star charts, and more! June 24: DAS Executive Board Meetinghttps://www.denverastro.org/events/e-board-6/?occurrence=2024-06-24

June 26: MakerSIG Meetinghttps://www.denverastro.org/events/das-makersig-meeting-5/

June 27: NSN Webinar Series: Perseverance: Three Years of Exploring Mars with Kim Steadmanhttps://www.denverastro.org/events/nsn-webinar-series-perseverance-three-years-of-exploring-mars-with-kim-steadman/… Continue reading.

Upcoming Events Through June 24
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June 19: Astrophotography Special Interest Group (ASIG) https://www.denverastro.org/events/astrophotography-special-interest-group-asig-meeting-2-of-2-6/?occurrence=2024-06-19

June 20: Summer Solstice (longest day and shortest night of the year for Earth’s northern hemisphere)

June 21: Full Strawberry Moon – This is the lowest full moon of the year, appearing extremely low on the horizon.… Continue reading.

NASA’s 2024 Summer Astrophoto Challenge
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Attention Astrophotographers!

Enter NASA’s 2024 Summer Astrophoto Challenge and create your image of the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) using James Webb Space Telescope data. You can capture your real-time telescope image using the MicroObservatory robotic telescope network or work with data files taken with multi-wavelength space-based missions from NASA, ESA, and CSA (Hubble, Webb, Chandra, Spitzer).… Continue reading.

Skyward for June, 2024
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By David H. Levy

For the last few nights I have been looking in one particular direction of the sky:  the northeast.   Over a period of four nights, I have noticed a faint glow in that direction.  It wasn’t bright, certainly nothing about which to write home, but it was the aurora borealis. … Continue reading.

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