Cabrillo Astronomy in the News

Oct. 28, 2005 - My Astro 28M class to the Mojave Desert centered around the lunar graze of Upsilon Geminorum. Our observations combined with others showed this interferometric standard star is a likely previously unknown binary star. See the Oct 28, 2005 edition of "The Universe Today" for the story.

June 15, 2006 - One of my photos; of Mars passing through the Beehive Star Cluster, was published online at Spaceweather.com

Nov 26, 2006 - preliminary results of the analysis of the Upsilon Geminorum graze and discovery of binary nature of the star, referenced here.

January, 2007 - A couple of my photo's of Comet McNaught (a.k.a The Great Comet of '07!) were published at Spaceweather.com

July , 2008 - A popular website has made a photographic study of the great Scutum Star Cloud in the Milky Way and is using one of our images.