Total Lunar Eclipse – March 13, 2025 March 13, 2025March 15, 2025 Joe Date/Time Start: 2025.03.13 10:10PM PDTFinish: 2025.03.13 11:40PM PDT Location: 3000-block Jackson St, Victoria, BC, CanadaObservers: myselfFull Moon – 14.2 days old Conditions Observations I wa... Read More
Conjunction of the Moon & Saturn – Jan 31, 2025 January 31, 2025February 16, 2025 Joe I observed and photographed the 2.6 day old Waxing Crescent Moon with Earthshine setting low in the west over the city. Saturn was 1.5 degrees away in the constellation Aquarius, flanked by stars Chi ... Read More
2024 Total Solar Eclipse November 13, 2022February 1, 2025 Joe I am planning to observe the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, which tracks across North America on April 8, 2024. Prospects of clear weather are best in Mexico, so I have booked a Mexican Riviera cruise out ... Read More
Christmas Letter 2020 December 6, 2020June 17, 2024 Joe Travel I suppose I should start this year’s Christmas Letter with my pandemic story, since everyone is preoccupied with the COVID-19 virus this year. Back in May of 2019 I booked a Holland ... Read More
Christmas Letter 2019 December 7, 2019June 18, 2024 Joe Travel For the third year in a row, I traveled to southern Arizona for astronomy in March (2019) instead of February (previous years). Our host wanted to try for better weather so the date was changed... Read More
27.7 day old Waning Crescent Moon, Milky Way, 3 planets – March 4, 2019 March 4, 2019March 4, 2025 Joe Visually observed Date, time, location, conditions Start: 2019.03.04 5:00AM MSTEnd: 2019.03.04 6:30AM MSTLocation: Garry Sedun’s SDG Observatory, Dragoon Mountain Ranch, St. David, AZ, USA – 3... Read More
Christmas Letter 2018 November 29, 2018June 18, 2024 Joe 2018 Travel I returned to southern Arizona in February to once again take advantage of the dark skies at my friend’s beautiful observatory. I flew to Tucson, stayed at my friend’s place fo... Read More
Road trip to Calgary June 19, 2018November 23, 2018 Joe I’m taking a road trip to Calgary starting June 26th for a couple of weeks. As a Life Member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC), I like to participate in the society where I can.... Read More
2015 Total Lunar Eclipse in Victoria September 27, 2015January 28, 2016 Joe A Total Lunar Eclipse as observed from Cattle Point Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on October , 2015 The eclipse was already in progress as it rose out of the atmospheric haze to the east o... Read More
