: By Pete PetersonPete Peterson shares his experience of observing a gravitationally lensed quasar 8.7 billion light years away from his Wishing Star Observatory in Barrington, RI.
: By Dave HuestisOne Leonid of about 1st magnitude appeared to the east of Betelgeuse, leaving a two second train of dust behind it. Not bad. Much later a bright Leonid, perhaps as bright as Jupiter, shot about 15 degrees to the west of Sirius. I saw it disappear below my tree line to the south. These were the highlights.
: By Dave HuestisI have watched the Moon occult stars in the Pleiades star cluster on many occasions. And I have also observed the Moon occult a planet or two during my 37 years of amateur astronomy. But just seeing a single star either pass behind the lunar limb or move tangentially to it never seemed to interest me.