Tony Hoffman's AstroWeb
The Moon amid the Pleiades star cluster on
the evening of April 1, 2006, as seen from
the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, which overlooks
lower Manhattan. I used a Canon Digital Rebel
with a 100mm lens. (c) Tony Hoffman
I have been an amateur astronomer
since 1972. I am a director of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York,
and write a monthly column called "What's Up" for its newsletter,
Eyepiece.
Areas of particular interest to me include observing comets, planets,
asteroids, novae, the Space Shuttle, ISS, and other spacecraft, and
deep-sky objects (galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae), as well as
atmospheric phenomena such as solar halos, sundogs, and the like. On
these pages, I will provide accounts of my observations (naked-eye,
binocular, and telescopic) of comets, meteor showers, and other objects
and celestial events, my discovery of comets in online images taken by
the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft and of
near-Earth asteroids as a Spacewatch FMO Project reviewer, and articles
and reviews of general interest about astronomy and space travel
(including parts of my "What's Up" columns), as well as
astrophotographs, mostly taken with a Canon Digital Rebel.
Asteroids
Comets and Meteors
Space Travel
Solar Science and Space Weather
Extrasolar Planets
Cosmology
Astronomical and Meteorological Photography
The Extraordinary Outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes
Book Reviews
Selections from Past "What's Up" Columns and Other Short Items
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E-mail to tonyhoffman [at] earthlink [dot] net