The Inbox Magazine on Astronomy News, Sky Events, and Astronomy in Everyday Life
A twice-monthly newsletter that began May 2021, and that:
* brings the most interesting news stories (This Just In) which connect to the current night sky,
* contains a textual and visual two-week Sky Planning Calendar, using the Moon’s wanderings to find the planets and other objects, notes on the Planets and events,
* our astronomical horoscope musings, Border Crossings,
* Observing — Plan-et covers the Solar System happenings in the sky,
* For the Future–upcoming events you should be aware of,
* and the quirky findings of Astronomy in Everyday Life, and (in 2022) Star Trek stars (to coincide with a future Hermograph Press book).
The Galactic Times also offers other occasional features and articles including travel stories with an astronomical bent, software information, and other things…the universe is vast…..
Many stories come from the latest news in world astronomy conferences and journals. Unlike in mass media, all the stories are authoritatively written by astronomer, journalist and educator Dr. Larry Krumenaker.
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The Latest Six Issues: (click here to go to All Posts)
- #24G – The Eclipse from North and South – Dawn is Where the Worlds Are & 2 More StoriesTGT 4/15/24: Partial and Total Eclipse Observations; Mars with 3 other Planets; Night sky loses, gains its only planet(s); Expecting a Nova T-CrB.
- #24F – Educational Eclipsing and Livestreams – Earth and Corona Forecasts – Can You Tell Mars From Saturn? – & 2 More StoriesTGT 4/1/24: Planets Vanishing; Two Planets match in brightness yet not close; Last Chances for Finding a Comet; The Sky During Totality; Southern Eclipse Survival Kit; Eclipse live-streams, Education.
- #24E – Mars Influences the Earth (Not Astrologically!) [A TGT InDepth Story] – A Night for Seeing a Comet – & 4 More StoriesTGT 3/16/24: How Planets Influence the Earth’s Climate (not news…); Finding Comet Pons-Brooke the Easy Way; Mercury Has Its Moment Out of the Sunlight; Penumbral Eclipse. Surviving a Lunar Eclipse.
- #24D – Sun Watching After April 8th – ‘Earthly Objects’ in the Night Sky – & 10 More Stories [w/Paid]TGT 3/1/24: Deeper Looks–Spot watching, Solar Disk-o!, Next 20 Years of Eclipses; Sky Calendar–Mercury Emerges, Large Crescents, Lunar Eclipse, A Comet, Occultations; Sky Words in Everyday Life
- #24C – Moon Music – Craters in the Moon’s Shadow – & 5 More Stories [Paid]TGT 2/16/24: Eclipse Articles for Downloading; A Farewell Conjunction as Two Planets Say Goodbye; Moon Music; Winter Stars on Earth; Astronomical Travel–Craters Near or in Moon’s Shadow;
- #24B – Drinking in the Moon – Mars Rivers – Lots of Solar Eclipse Articles – & 5 More StoriesTGT 2/1/24: Japan’s Lander from Orbit; Moon Brushes All Planets in 8 Days; AEL– -Hic- Tasty Moon Drinks; This Just In–Habitable M-dwarf Exo’s, Mars’ Rivers, Old Smoker’s and Heavy Metals, more…
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