" #Astronomer s? I thought they drove #train s." said no one ever.

Thank you Mid-Continent Railway Museum for letting me join your Starlight Express for an evening of #stargazing by rail.

photograph of Mid-Continent Railway Museum, North Freedom, WI, USA

#astronomy #railroad #darksky #history #scicomm

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Bertrand Russell (1872) - British philosopher, logician, historian, writer, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

Birth Anniversary of Omar Khayyam (1048) - Persian #Mathematician, #Astronomer, and poet.

Today is International #MuseumDay, and World #AIDS #Vaccine Day.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

Meton - Virtual Mechanical Moon and #Eclipse #Calculator

This awesome tool was created by prof. em. Thomas Weibel from Basel, Switzerland. Here is the beginning of the description from the website:

"The metonic cycle is a period of 19 years corresponding to almost exactly 235 synodic lunar months or full cycles of #moon phases, named after meton of athens, a greek #mathematician and #astronomer from the 5th century bc."

I love it :-)

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/meton/

#archaeology #time #astronomy

Time for a midweek break from #astrophotography from our #constellation of the #month #Camelopardalis to show you Petrus Plancius!

Who is Petrus Plancius? Another of the multi-hyphenate astronomers of the 1600s, who we met in this week's episode!

For more, check out: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/camelopardalis-cosmic-background/

📷 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Plancius#/media/File:Petrusplancius.gif

#astronomer #astronomy #history #historical #AstroDon #space #science #constellation