Month: May 2012

Big moon

Last night was the year’s largest and brightest moon. It was in fact bright. It washed out most of the nights allsky camera imagery. But at 04:34 this morning (Sunday…

Aurora

I came across a great story this morning over at arstechnica.com about the first really big auroral storm in modern history. “Noon approached on September 1, 1859, and British astronomer…