This week mercury will be very bright above the western horizon in late twilight. I observed it easily last night in binoculars and naked eye and with a 12"...
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Jun 30, 2008 3:20 am
If anyone is interested in a star party in july let me know. I have emailed the Sirius Stargazers to see if they will be holding any star parties in our area. ...
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Sep 2, 2008 12:41 am
Venus moon mercury and mars are all within a few degrees of each other tonight making a spectacular sight low in the SW. At 8:30 PM Venus was first to show its...
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Nov 18, 2008 7:30 pm
Hi , Over the next few weeks Jupiter and Venus will slowly draw together in the twilight SW skies. They will both be very close to the crescent moon on...
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Dec 24, 2008 8:35 pm
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and clear skies for the new year. Carpe Noctem Patrick...
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Jan 24, 2009 1:40 am
The appearance of Venus through a telescope becomes more crescent shaped during January as the planet's orbit brings it closer to Earth. As the planet's phase...
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Feb 7, 2009 3:12 pm
Comet Lulin is now a naked eye morning object near Libra headed toward Virgo. The comet makes its closest approach to Earth (0.41 AU) on Feb. 24, 2009. Current...
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Feb 27, 2009 7:24 pm
Tonight after sunset compare crescent venus with the crescent moon in binoculars or a small telescope and see how similiar their shapes are. Also this weekend...
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Apr 12, 2009 5:02 am
Mercury will be easily visible in the west the next few weeks during twilight. I have observed it the last 2 nights climbing higher in the west each night and...
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Aug 6, 2009 1:37 am
POSSIBLE PERSEID METEOR OUTBURST: This year's Perseid meteor shower could be even better than usual. According to NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, a...
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Sep 3, 2009 1:23 am
Last night just after 9 PM I viewed a very bright (magnitude -5 with surges to -7) bolide approaching from the southwestern horizon and culminating about 40...
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Nov 1, 2009 5:21 pm
I am north of the Arctic circle now at about 68 degrees North Latitude living in an Eskimo village. Saw an Arctic ice-bow yesterday opposite the sun like a...
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Dec 5, 2009 3:50 am
Hi, Rick, one of our members asked me to post this - I know someone who has an Apogee Inc. 90mm x 500mmFL refractor on a hand-driven equatorial mount. It comes...
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Dec 13, 2009 5:54 pm
Hello, It is -1 degree here now north of the Arctic Circle and I have just come in from observing the Geminid Meteor shower which decorated the sky this...
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Dec 28, 2009 9:23 am
My sunriseset picture made the front page of Spaceweather.com found here today. http://spaceweather.com/ Patrick Stonehouse...
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Mar 21, 2010 6:10 pm
Mercury and Venus will present a lovely sight low in the Western Twilight over the next 3 weeks with their closest approach on April 3rd and 4th. In another 4...
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Mar 27, 2010 3:38 pm
Yesterday I observed Mercury and Venus low in the west during twilight and both were easily visible at 8:22 PM. Also the first visual discovery of a comet in...
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Apr 2, 2010 7:46 pm
Mercury and Venus are a pretty sight in the Western twilight, within a few degrees of each other these next few nights. I observed them both last night even...
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Apr 12, 2010 8:45 pm
Last night Venus and Mercury were a pretty sight in the Western Twilight and as twilight deepened into night the Aurora brightened the northern skies with a...
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Aug 4, 2010 12:52 am
As expected, a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field on August 3rd. The impact, which occurred around 1730 UT, sparked a polar geomagnetic...
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Nov 18, 2010 12:31 pm
With a bright gibbous moon and the light and air polltion caused by 4 million people in the city in China that I teach in the conditions were very bad for...
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Dec 15, 2010 9:20 am
This months lunar eclipse is a unique combination: the deep, dark night of the Winter Solstice on December 20, 2010, the timing of a bright winter full moon,...
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Jan 1, 2011 1:11 am
A new year has begun here while at your house last year still endures. This morning I awoke to see the new moon in the old moon's arms as it slowly swung like...
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Aug 1, 2011 1:24 pm
This week might be a good week to start looking for Perseid meteors after midnight as the moon is not blasting the dark sky with its brilliant light and the...
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Oct 24, 2011 2:07 pm
Jupiter is now well placed for observing it's red spot and it nightly dance with it's moons and is found high in the south at 11PM. The sun has been very...
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Oct 25, 2011 1:22 pm
Last night many people reported seeing a grand display of northern lights radiating from the Zenith to the horizon. They were intense and this is what one...
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Feb 22, 2012 1:07 pm
This week the moon and Mercury and Uranus and Venus and Jupiter all line up in the Western sky after sunset. All can be seen easily with the naked eye except...
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Apr 7, 2012 1:44 am
This month Venus is rapidly catching up with Earth appearing high in the sky at the begining of the month but over the next couple of months appearing ever...
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Oct 6, 2012 12:58 pm
This comet C/2012 S1 ISON is generating much speculation among cometary astronomers as it is already relatively bright and producing much dust considering it...
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Feb 21, 2013 2:07 pm
The year 2013 may someday be known as "the year of the comets." If all goes well we may see two of the brightest comets in many years. Comet C/2011 L4 is a...
