Night Sky
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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…
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They say that the month of March comes in like a lion and there is actually some truth to that as the…
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Looking up at a star-filled sky, it becomes a tempting thought to try and start connecting all of those dots in order…
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• Feb 2 – For the next two weeks, look for the Zodiacal Light in the western evening sky. In late winter and early…
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Eighteenth Century French astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier decided that he had had enough of those annoying fuzzy-looking clouds in the…
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• Jan 1 – The moon is at perigee, its closest point in its orbit around the Earth at a distance of 221,559 miles,…
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• Nov 2nd – On this day in 1917, the Mount Wilson 100-inch telescope saw “first light”. First light is when a new…
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Open star clusters are groups of a few hundred to a few thousand stars, all having formed at about the same time from…
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• Oct 3rd – On this day in 1942, the first V-2 rocket was launched. The V-2 was the first long-range guided…
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For the backyard astronomer, no other celestial object can offer as much beauty, complexity, and sheer wonder than does our closest neighbor…