astronomy

Threinen captures blue super moon

Aug 28, 2024

Photographer Ben Threinen took photos of a special moon on Aug. 23. According to a National Public Radio report, the moon that night was a “super moon,” which occurs when the moon is closest to planet earth, and a “blue moon” which is the third of four full moons occuring in a season. Super blue...

Public sky observation planned at Frontenac State Park on Aug. 31

Aug 21, 2024

Frontenac State Park will host a free public sky observation event on Saturday, Aug. 31, from 7:45 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. Attendees park in the overflow parking area and meet at the picnic shelter. People who attend will have the opportunity to view the planets Venus, Saturn, Neptune, bright stars,...

State park astronomy event is July 29

Jul 19, 2023

On July 29, the public is invited to a sky observation of the young moon—11.7 days after the new moon—from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at the Frontenac State Park picnic shelter. “See the planet Saturn, bright stars, double stars, and more by telescope with guidance from the Rochester Astronomy Club...

State Park to host night sky program on Oct. 2

Sep 15, 2021

Frontenac State Park is hosting a night sky program on Oct, 2, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. “Members of the Rochester Astronomy Club will be present for a relaxing night of stargazing,” according to a news release. “You will learn about constellations and their lore, see planets, nebulae from past...

Fiction: Cold and Alone - The Parallax Mission

Jul 17, 2019

Editor’s note: Dr. Emerson Schultz doesn’t exist (at least not yet), and didn’t write this account from May, 26, 2305 AD (at least not yet). This story was written by 2019 Lincoln High School graduate Mitchel Medvec as part of his successful application to a the selective Astronomy Camp this...

For Medvec, the sky's the limitless frontier

Jul 17, 2019

Mitchel Medvec was on a basketball bus in eighth grade when he saw something that changed his life. Bored, he scraped away the ice forming on the window. Outside he saw the sun ringed with rainbows. The rings, known as sun halos, appear when light is refracted through ice crystals in the clouds at...

Stargazing with astronomy camper

Jul 10, 2019

Mitch Medvec, a Lake City resident who recently took part in a selective astronomy camp in Arizona, will hold an astronomy program at Hok-Si-La Park on the first of the three nights of July 17, 24, or 31 that has skies clear enough for examining the heavens. Using Medvec’s Celestron 8SE telescope,...