Astronomy Nightly

Here's another backyard astronomy project. This is the Fish Head Nebula, IC1795. In the sky, it's a little corner hanging off of the Heart Nebula on the opposite side of the Soul Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. The Heart and Soul get lots of astronomer attention and I shot both of them this …

Science lesson! My kids took an online astronomy class about a year ago. As part of the class, they used a remote telescope service called Slooh. Slooh is a fantastic intro to deep sky astronomy for kids. It lets you pick targets then a telescope takes an image and sends it to you. That was great fo…