- bringing a little life into your lights
Often referred to as Cosmic Lighthouses, neutron stars (also known as pulsars) are incredibly dense stars that shoot out X-rays at a predictable rate, like a lighthouse. Read more on them here: NEW NASA MISSION TO PROBE CELESTIAL LIGHTHOUSES A new NASA mission proposes to examine the nature of these neutron stars as well as […]
Sometime Facebook can be useful. I saw the photo below on Facebook under the title Beautiful Planet Earth’s photo, and did a Google Image Search for the photo for more information. This is a Turkish lighthouse on the Mediterranean under a sky full of stars. This would have a great way to illustrate my story […]
One of the nicest things about night shift on McInnes Island lighthouse was observing the sky on a clear night. It was always the same, and always different. The same stars were always there, but the moon waxed and waned, comets streaked across at intervals, sometimes an airplane’s navigation lights blinked in the south, […]
You hear so many people complaining about having to work nights at a job. Myself, I found night shift to be the best! The rest of the station was asleep. I had the radio all to myself, a good book, cup of coffee and I was set. Every hour or so, depending on the feel […]