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Blog Post:
The Tunguska event: an excerpt from my upcoming book
David Eicher
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Mon, May 20 2013
Blog Post:
Brian May’s amazing 3-D image of Comet PANSTARRS
David Eicher
Ph.D. astronomer, Queen guitarist, and Astronomy Editorial Advisory Board member Brian May sent some 3-D images of Comet PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4) the other day. These are absolutely incredible and will blow your mind when you see them in the right way. You may know that Brian is very much into stereo photography...
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Mon, May 6 2013
Blog Post:
Seneca on comets: an excerpt from “Comets: Visitors From Deep Space”
David Eicher
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Thu, May 2 2013
Blog Post:
Fred Espenak’s latest incredible Comet PANSTARRS movie
David Eicher
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Thu, Mar 14 2013
Blog Post:
Fred Espenak’s great PANSTARRS movie!
David Eicher
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Tue, Mar 12 2013
Blog Post:
Miriam Kramer and Dave Eicher talk comets on SPACE.com
David Eicher
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Thu, Mar 7 2013
Blog Post:
Steve O'Meara, Botswana, and Comet PANSTARRS
David Eicher
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Wed, Mar 6 2013
Blog Post:
Dave Eicher Comet ISON blog on “The Huffington Post”
David Eicher
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Tue, Mar 5 2013
Blog Post:
Is Comet ISON the comet of the century?
David Eicher
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Wed, Jan 9 2013
Blog Post:
Spectacular International Space Station view of Comet Lovejoy
David Eicher
As many of you know, Comet 2011/W3 (Lovejoy), a sungrazer that miraculously survived its encounter with the Sun’s corona December 15, is putting on a nice show in the Southern Hemisphere. The comet is showing a long tail that stretches 10° and glows at magnitude 4, having peaked as it rose...
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Tue, Dec 27 2011
Blog Post:
Comet Lovejoy plunges toward the Sun — and survives!
David Eicher
Yesterday, recently found Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) survived its plunge into the Sun’s corona after passing a mere 87,000 miles (140,000 kilometers) from our star’s photosphere — an incredibly close encounter. This Kreutz sungrazer was discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Terry...
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Fri, Dec 16 2011
Blog Post:
John Chumack nails Comet Garradd
David Eicher
There’s a reasonably bright comet in the sky right now — Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd), discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Gordon Garradd. The comet is now visible through binoculars and small telescopes, an evening object glowing at around magnitude 8, and showing a nice, intense, bright...
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Wed, Aug 24 2011
Blog Post:
Meet Comet Garradd
David Eicher
If you haven’t looked at Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) yet, you might want to check it out. Discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Gordon Garradd, the comet is currently a respectably bright binocular object, at magnitude 8.7, located in the late evening sky in the constellation Pegasus. [caption...
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Thu, Aug 4 2011
Blog Post:
A (possibly) bright comet is coming
David Eicher
Astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii, have discovered a faint comet whose orbit could bring it close to Earth and the Sun and make it quite bright 2 years from now. Imaged on the night of June 5/6, 2011, the comet is designated C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) and was confirmed...
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Fri, Jun 24 2011
Blog Post:
The skies belong to everyone, part four: Comets
David Eicher
So you bought a telescope to look at everything the universe has to offer. You’ve explored the various craters and maria of the Moon plus all the planets. What should you look at next? [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/daves_2D00_universe...
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Thu, May 5 2011