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Jupiter Returns!

Mighty Jupiter finally returns to our night skies for easy observing this month. Always a favourite target, Jupiter offers a wealth of detail and action to the amateur astronomer. Track raging storms across its mighty disc, examine the Great Red Spot and evidence of White Spots, watch the ballet dance of its four largest moons (the Galilean Moons) as they zip in front of and behind this massive planet. Check out Astronomy.com's page on Jupiter for more info!

What's Up This Month

Look! Up in the sky! Here's what you'll see in May 2008:
• Cresent Moon with Mercury on the 6th.
• Jupiter enters retrograde motion on the 9th.
• Mercury reaches farthest elongation from Sun on 13th.
• Mars enters the Beehive Cluster on 22nd.
• Jupiter hovers above gibbous Moon on 24th.
• Check out the BBC's sky guide for this month - read more...

Barrie Clear Sky Clock

Wallpaper of the Month

Omega Centauri!
by: NASA Spitzer Space Telescope (spitzer.caltech.edu)
Wallpaper: 1024x768 1280x1024 Widescreen

Recent Blog Posts

Binoviewing the Universe
WOW! Okay, I've been buying a few things for my telescope lately - a f/6.3 focal reducer to a... [more]

Journey To Mars via Cheltenham Badlands!
On the weekend, the wife and I packed up the family and went on a mini-vacation to a large hotel in ... [more]

Half Moon Rising
Well, I finally got my telescope out for a decent session tonight. After purchasing a special lens c... [more]

One World (Not Three)
A couple of random thoughts for the tail end of All Fools day. First, I've "discovered" the music of... [more]

The Essence of Astronomy
Over the last few weeks, I've been scheming and working to get some additional astronomy equipment i... [more]

Updated Pages

Canadian Pennies - New coins in the gallery! 1886, 1891, 1892, 1898, 1926 and of course 2008!

Telescope Wizard - the Telescope Wizard is back! If you're looking for suggestions on a telescope to buy, then give it a try!

The Surly Buddhist - my Blog page is up and running, and I've managed to import everything I had on my old site, plus I grabbed my entries I had on my MSN Spaces site!

Telescope Reviews - my scope reviews are BACK! I have started by just moving over the summaries I had posted on my current scopes, but I'll re-add my previous reviews as well as brand new reviews very soon.