June sky highlights - Venus Shines before dawn
Both inner planets gather in June's morning sky. Mercury and, in particular, Venus put on fine displays as twilight commences. The warm evenings typical of June offer great conditions to show off the...
View ArticleFreshman in Astronomy 101
---Greetings everyone! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jared Hyatt and I live in the ecentric little town of Eureka Aprings Arkansas. I recently started an astronomy club and purchased my...
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View ArticleGuide to Counting Meteors
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View ArticleBaby Stars Finally Found In Jumbled Galactic Center
Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was made using the infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Spacefull story
View ArticleObserving from the City
Light pollution is the bane of amateur astronomy -- but you can see a lot even through the worst of it. linkfull site
View ArticleTips for Those Wearing Glasses
Some of you that wear glasses may notice that it makes astronomical observing more difficult, sometimes even aggravating. linkfull site
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View ArticleYou are not the Center of the Universe
Thanks to Edwin Hubble on the XX Century, we have learned that our place in the Universe is not as priviledged as we used to think.
View ArticleAstrocation 2009
Have you ever wanted to know what it is like to be at some of the biggest and coolest observatories in the world? Well now you can, starting today! I will be touring New Mexico, Arizona, and California...
View ArticleAstronomy.com - Setup is key when urban stargazing
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KAGUYA's last pictures
Just before her impact on the Moon surface, the Japanese Lunar Probe, KAGUYA, sent the final pictures taken with her High Definition camera. Las picture in the sequence was taken 1 minute before impact.
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First Light!
As my wife described it, I was like a kid in a candy store. I had everything set out early and waited patiently (or maybe not so) for the sun to set. With each passing minute I scanned the sky for the...
View ArticleChasing the New Moon
For about six months now, I've been trying to catch the first day that you can see the crescent moon in the first quarter of its cycle. I never seem able to get closer than the second day. Have caught...
View ArticleMars and Venus and Jupiter oh my!
—I set the alarm for 03:30 this morning to do some sky watching at a different time. One of my first goals, early in my astronomical career, is to view all the other 7 planets as soon as possible. With...
View ArticleLunar and Solar Eclipses
We had a lunar eclipse on July 7 and there's a solar eclipse on July 21. The lunar eclipse was only visible from the western U.S. and points further west into the Pacific, but the next one on August...
View ArticleCarl Sagan: The Cosmos
The Popular TV broadcasting channel, Hulu is now carrying most/all of the astronomy/space series, Cosmos.
View Article#Meteorwatch
Newbury Astronomical Society @NewburyAS with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 UK @astronomy2009uk, amateur astronomers and societies, will be holding a Twitter Meteorwatch on Tuesday 11th and...
View ArticleLIVE Broadcast of the moon and Jupiter
Come see the moon and Jupiter LIVe almost everynight! The we will occasionally throw in some other objects!Live video chat by Ustream
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After the overly successful IYA2009 event #Moonwatch, the Newbury Astronomical Society had to try and run another.Now you may be asking yourself, what is #Moonwatch? Well, in simple terms #Moonwatch...
View ArticleA Future Solution to Light Pollution?
Light pollution is a major problem, both for professional and backyard astronomers. It used to be that if you just went out into the countryside, you could get decent viewing. But with unshielded...
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