The Classroom Astronomer Newsletter (TCA). Dormant for 2 years it has been revived. Most of its old columns and functions are now on The Galactic Times Newsletter here on Substack. But PAID subs will enjoy an exploration of astro Big Data!
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TCA 8/22/26: Reminder--A Nearly Total Lunar Eclipse--Find Lunar Size, Distance; Space Careers in the UK's Girl Guiding Program; Monitoring an Eclipsing Binary With No Telescope and Brute Measures.
TCA 7/17/26: August's European Total Eclipse, (Partly) Partial in North America an Europe, The Perseid Meteor Shower with No Moonlight, a Nearly Total Lunar Eclipse--Find Lunar Size, Distance.
TCA 6/20/26: CAP Conference Presentations on Artificial Intelligence in Science Communication; Cosmic Connections--Alphabetical Astronomy for the Public; Astro Music to Start a Class for Non-Majors
TCA 5/13/26: As promised earlier, here is the first book of the Galactic Times Books division of Hermograph Press, Came Out of the Sky .
TCA 5/1/26: Astronomical Teachniques--Busting Misconceptions With Modeling Techniques, Modeling Gas Giant Worlds; Exploration of the Universe Post 5A--Summary of our Ten Stars, Then A Deep Dive
TCA 4/1/26: Gathering Star Data for Stars With Just Coordinates (Exploration of the Universe, Post 4C).
TCA 4/1/26: Gathering Star Data for Other Stars (Exploration of the Universe, Post 4B).
TCA 4/1/26: Why Earth Shadow Is NOT on the Moon; Gathering Star Data for Trek Stars (Part A of Exploration of the Universe Post 4).
TCA 2/25/26: Names! So Many Names! Getting Your First Data With Aladin.
TCA 1/17/26: Sky Lessons--Observing the Sky for Evidence of Kepler's Second Law; Other Jupiter Simulations; Exploration #2--What Objects Are We Looking For, and Where?
TCA 1/1/26: Sky Lessons--Observing the Sky for Evidence of Kepler's Second and Third Laws; Exploration #1--The Basics of What We See
