"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.

— New York Times

C/2011 L4 PANSTARR

By ebfaulkner6a at Thu, 06/20/2013 - 10:52am
C/2011 L4 PANSTARR

Experimenting with PANSTARR L4 located near the dipper of Ursa Minor, 6x5min exposures with 30 sec delay between images, negative (inverted) image taken with Explore Scientific 127mm EDT carbon fiber telescope on CGEM DX mount "star" guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar. 6-19-2013 10 pm