Oct 21, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week It’s a big week for comets: both Comet SWAN (C/2025 R2) and Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) are reaching nearest approach to Earth and peak brightness in the same week. Naturally, I’ve been consulting my charts, animal bones, and trusty crystal ball to...
Oct 14, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week This week I’ll be continually checking my app to see if things are a go or no-go. If a go, I’ll spend hours sitting in uncomfortable seating, wondering what the food/snack situation is, and possibly being called upon to make sense of...
Sep 23, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week Welcome to the Dark Side! And no, I don’t mean that Happenings readers have ALL become imagers. I mean the actual dark side of the year. The autumnal equinox was yesterday, and that means the Sun has finally gotten our collective memo to hightail...
Sep 16, 2025 | MAS Happenings
Happenings this Week I’ve been reading (and re-reading) The Expanse series—highly recommended if you like smart, gritty sci-fi. (The TV show holds up, too.) Since it was my birthday yesterday, I decided to calculate my age on various solar system worlds—ones the...