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AstroEvent of the Week:29th-September 5th, 2008: Spot Neptune!

Now, to spot a planet that was first located mathimatically. Neptune and Triton as imaged by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. (Credit: NASA/JPL).   Now that the Moon is out of the sky this week, it’s...

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AstroEvent of the Week: 04.20.09: A Morning of Moons and Meteors!

Venus & the Moon Earlier this Year…(note the Ashen Light!) Photo by Author. There are two reasons to set your alarm this week; one is the annual Lyrid meteor shower, and the second is the...

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3.8.9: Jupiter Occults a Bright Star.

Lots has been afoot in the Jovian system as of late. As you train that 10” Dobsonian on the ever evolving black spot gracing Jupiter’s cloud tops, I turn your attention to another unique event about to...

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12 Amazing Moments in Science.

  Edwin Hubble in the archetypal astronomer pose! (Credit: NASA Quest).      Let it be known that this post did indeed start with 12… whenever someone mentions the most exalted achievements of mankind,...

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20.04.10: Hubble Smashes KBO record.

   The Structure of the Kuiper Belt.    The Hubble Space Telescope has shattered yet another record; the smallest Kuiper Belt Object yet recorded. But the discovery came not from the telescope’s main...

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July 2010: Life in the Astro-blogosphere.

The Return of… Stove Pipe Scope! (Photo by Author).      (Editor’s Note: As of July 1st, we are ramping down our output and limiting ourselves to the AstroEvent & Review of the Week in our quest to...

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Astro-Challenge: Spot Neptune in its Original Discovery Position!

       In this week’s astro-event, we challenge you, the sky watching public, to view the planet Neptune as it was first seen on the night of its discovery on September 23, 1846. On that evening,...

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Review: Voyager by Stephen J. Pyne.

     Ours may be an age of discovery like no other. This week, we look at Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery, by Stephen J. Pyne, out July 26th, 2010 from Viking Press....

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AstroEvent: The Return of Saturn 2011.

Saturn as imaged March 19th, 2004 by the author.  Two of unique planetary events are on our astro-radar this week. The first is an extremely close conjunction between brilliant Venus and faint Neptune...

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Astro-Challenge: Spotting Triton.

Triton as seen from Voyager 2. (Credit: NASA/JPL). This week’s Astro-Challenge is definitely for the “been there, done that” crowd, a hunt that will put that gia-normous light bucket you’ve got sitting...

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Your Chance to see the “Moons”(?) of Venus!

Two degree FOV on January 13th… north is up. (Created by the Author in Starry Night). The planet Venus is going through some pretty fancy sky maneuvering this year. Starting off low to the south in...

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