The Pleiades Cluster is seen from fall to spring. Most people see 6 to 7 bright stars in a tight bunch. Some think they look like a little dipper, and so it gets mistaken for Ursa Minor-our little dipper-often. The Pleiades are a group of over 2,000 stars, all born from the same cloud of…
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Imagine yourself living many, many years ago in a time when there was no electricity. When night fell, you did not have electrical power to light up your home like we do today. Imagine yourself cooking on an open fire outside, and when the fire went out, you looked up to the sky, and saw bright shining…
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Come to the Texas Night Sky Festival Saturday, March 18th. Entry is free! Come experience the educational booths with hands-on activities, two inflatable planetariums, speakers, music, food, a silent auction and displays of poetry contest and art contest winners from around the area. When night fall, observe the stars with the Austin Astronomical Society. …
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The book is here! Come see us at the Texas Book Festival this weekend November 5th and 6th! We’ll be at Exhibitor Tent 1 at the corner of 12th and Colorado on the grounds of the Capitol building between 10am and 1pm. We will be at the Bright Sky Press booths numbers 101 and 102. Come say hi!
It was so great to see Mercury passing in front of our Sun this morning with the learners from Mountain Laurel. We also saw sunspots and learned about how CME’s make the aurora borealis.
My mother and I are overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who backed our kickstarter campaign for “Cassandra and the Night Sky”. We reached our goal in 7 days! We are still getting backers and are discussing ideas for using extra funds. We will most likely buy some beginner scopes and donate them to underserved schools.…
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I have written a children’s book about the night sky. Please read on to hear about the book and how you can help bring this story to the world! “Cassandra and the Night Sky” is about a brave girl who grows up in a land without stars. She stumbles upon the night sky, thought to be…
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We will be able to see Mercury pass across the face of the Sun between 4am and noon on Monday, May 9th. There are about 13 transits of Mercury every 100 years. Mercury is one of the two planets we can see transits of, the other being Venus. Whey can’t we see transits of the other planets?…
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It was a “sun-filled” day 😉 at the Boy Scout Lone Star Council STEM-bo-ree Saturday. We looked at the Sun and had the chance to catch a big ‘ole sunspot! We learned about the upcoming transit of Mercury and how big Mercury would be if we shrunk…
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Joseph and I had a lot of fun with the students and community from the Meridian School Science Saturday event. We brought our set up for designing and testing out proper light shielding to prevent light pollution and save our night sky and an activity called “Pocket Sized Solar System” from Project Astro. The best part…
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