Feature Articles Archive

Jane writes an observing report from a desert night that featured ten planets.

Story and photo album (with some ultra-cute tortoise video) of our "Herping Star Party" in Mojave National Preserve, April 25, 2009

This three-minute NASA video produced for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 features astronomers from the Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers at our observing site in Monrovia.

Bob Cesarone of JPL moonlights as an acoustic musician, and wrote this song some years back for his favorite telescope man, John Dobson. This link is direct to the MP3 file.

The sky was clouded out, but it didn't stop us from having a good time, talking about lighting and telescopes. (Mojo finally did something we've been accused of for years – just showing a picture.)

Jane observed the Hesiodus sunrise ray during a sidewalk session, and writes about observing these fun lunar phenomena.

Jane's article on this fascinating sky phenomenon we saw at Bryce Canyon.

Jane and Mojo travel to the North Rim and Bryce Canyon for a week of astronomy with John Dobson and Barry Peckham

Weekend America did a story on Jane, Mojo, and John Dobson for International Sidewalk Astronomy Day, May 19, 2007. The web site also features an article by Jane.

A short album of photos from Myrtle and Lime in Monrovia, May 19, 2007

Stores and photo albums from our fall excursion to Ireland and England

Photos from July 21-22, 2006, with the San Jose Astronomical Association

Jane outlines an observing project for Saturn's strange two-colored moon Iapetus.

Photo album from North Rim, June 2006, with Jane, Mojo, and Barry Peckham of Litebox Telescopes