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Every backyard stargazer has their favorite object to showcase in a telescope, objects that are guaranteed to elicit a few “oohs” and “ahs”…
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• Aug 1 – Maria Mitchell was born this day in 1818. Mitchell (1818-1889) was born in Nantucket, MA to a devout Quaker…
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• July 1 – Before sunrise, look to the southwest where you will see Mars about 6 degrees below the waning crescent…
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Astronomy is perhaps the oldest of the sciences. Ever since our distant ancestors were capable of looking up at the night sky…
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• June 2 – The moon is apogee, the most distant point in its orbit this month, 251,852 miles away, at 11:35…
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• May 5 – The Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks during the early morning hours. Unfortunately, the waning gibbous moon will interfere. You…
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Mnemonic devices are useful memory tools and astronomy is certainly no stranger to them. In elementary school many of us of a…
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• April 2 – The first photograph of the Sun was taken on this day in 1845. The daguerreotype image from the early days…
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There is always something magical about seeing the bright flash of a meteor as it streaks across a dark, star-filled sky. One…
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• March 1 – Around 5:00 A.M., CST, go outside and face west to find the almost full moon. Now, face south and…
