Using SOHO to see the impossible scene

The passing of solar system objects near our Sun in our skies should be an unobservable event, but, you, intrepid reading of blogs, may already know our secret for actually viewing these events; we can ‘cheat’ by using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. SOHO is designed to look for faint solar wind phenomena near our …

Heads UP! for February 2019

We start today with a new moon, and we’ll wait a few days for the banana moon to appear and ripen.  In the meantime. . . The early morning sky looks like someone pulled the fire alarm.  Jupiter is soaring out to the upper right of Venus bailing to the exit to the lower left.  …

Sunday Air Quality Advisory for Philadelphia Metro Area

UPdate noon Sunday: Air quality Unhealthy for Sensitive Individuals (orange) and Unhealthy (for everyone, red) in Pennsylvania, especially the Lehigh Valley. See Airnow.gov for updates. Forget the groundhog. Air quality forecasting continues to improve as weather forecasts gets better. But as emissions of pollution have decreased, it can be more challenging to predict when air …

The whole groundhog thing.

On my grumpier days, the whole Weather Channel hoopla about the Pennsylvania groundhog is a bit much for me. [Wait a minute, the Weather Channel has a cool job opening in NYC. I take back every bad thing I ever said about TWC! (Really, I actually like TWC, especially Weather Underground.) ] Back to the …