Archive for April 15th, 2008
Laurent And Guillaume Langelez Capture ISS
The images were captured with the USB 2.0 astronomy camera DMK 31AU03.AS, manufactured by The Imaging Source:. Laurent added the following comments to his e-mail (translated from French):. Here is a photo of ISS, which was captured by …
Original post by Jonathan Maron
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Moon Phase
From The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Visit our Monthly Sky Highlights and Moon Phase Calendars page for more information.
Original post by The Old Farmer’s Almanac
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: A Protected Night Sky
This sky is protected. Yesterday marked the 50 year anniversary of the first lighting ordinance ever enacted, which restricted searchlight advertisements from sweeping the night skies above Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
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Planet-harboring star drifted from the Hyades
Astronomers ‘listen’ to an exoplanet-host star to find its birthplace.
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Milky Way's black hole wakes up
Our galaxy’s giant black hole erupted 300 years ago.
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Milky Way's giant black hole awoke from slumber 300 years ago
XMM-Newton science operations are handled at ESA’s European Space and Astronomy Centre (ESAC). The satellite was designed and built to return data for at least a decade. It has detected more X-ray sources than any previous satellite and …
Original post by Cmarchesin
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Spirit Sees Spots
Thought I’d check in and see what is going on with the rover Spirit. Apparently it’s doing pretty well. You can see where Spirit cleared off a spot in the rocks in the image above, it’s the circle just ahead above the “rabbit ears” …
Original post by Tom
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2 weeks trial and error with saturn
well heres what i got, think i cropped it wrong. 10″dob, point and shoot, camera mount, think ill be investing in the toucam 3 this weekend. moon came out much better. still learning, as i save for a Atlas EQG, enjoying it a lot!!
Original post by SirZeusor
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Astrosphere for April 15, 2008
Don’t just look inward, look outward. There’s a whole astrosphere out there. Your picture for the day is Saturn (of course), captured by Stargazer 7000. Astronomy Picture of the Day has a beautiful shot of the night sky over Sweden. …
Original post by Fraser
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Carolyn Porco speaks at Boulder on April 28
Carolyn Porco, for those readers who been hiding under a rock for like the past five years, is the imaging team leader for the Cassini Saturn probe. Those incredible images returned from the mission? Yeah, she’s in charge of that. …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer
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