Leo Aerts, Author at Astronomy.com

The Moon as it never was

Leo Aerts — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000

In 1874, James Nasmyth and James Carpenter published a remarkable book: The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. Lavishly illustrated with spectacular images of lunar features based on their own observations and exquisite plaster models, it served as a platform for the authors to advance their views on the nature andContinue reading "The Moon as it never was"

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Capturing the Moon in high resolution

Leo Aerts — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0000

The digital revolution has enabled amateur astronomers to take crisp, clear images that would have been the envy of professionals just a few decades ago.

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A brief history of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, and how to observe them

Leo Aerts — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Douglass discovered a relationship between the sunspot cycle and tree rings, thus establishing the science of dendrochronology. He was also instrumental in founding the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona. Lowell Observatory Archives The four large satellites of Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, have been viewed by more people than any otherContinue reading "A brief history of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, and how to observe them"

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