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Date R.A. Dec. Mag. Size Phase Dist. Nov 01 13h48m -09°33′ -1.0 5.0″ 94% 1.325 Nov 15 15h15m -18°06′ -1.2 4.6″ 100% 1.440 Nov 30 16h54m -24°06′ -0.8 4.7″ 98% 1.424 The table gives the planet’s equatorial coordinates – right …
Wil Tirion’s Sky Atlas 2000 is the most popular sky atlas for beginning and intermediate stargazers alike. The first edition appeared in 1981, showing stars up to the 8th magnitude. Years later Sky Publishing Corporation has published the second edition …
Below you will find a small collection of astronomy wallpapers, designed for use with a monitor resolution of 1280×960, 1024×768, or 800×600. Download your favorite and bring the beauty of the night sky to your computer’s desktop! Here are the …
After some months of scanning the skies I spent some thoughts on how to best document all those thrilling sights visible through my telescope. Photography was out of debate, because all the additional equipment would have overstressed my budget, not …
Meteors are particles from interplanetary space that vaporize in the Earth’s atmosphere. These celestial streaks last only a second or two, yet sometimes they light up the whole sky. On most nights, even careful observers catch only a few “shooting …
1 | 2 153P/Ikeya-Zhang I first cut a glimpse of Ikeya- Zhang through my field glass, at the end of March when the comet was just 20 degrees above the horizon and only observable in the evening. The sight …
Amateur astronomy would not be the same without comets. Those lumps of ice and dust that periodically come into the center of the solar system from somewhere in its outer reaches are interesting and fun to observe because each has …
Quasars 3C 273 is the only quasar visible through a 150-mm telescope. It is located in the Virgo-Coma cluster, south of M61. The distance that separates Earth from 3C 273 is 2.6 billion light-years (redshift 0.158). Finding the quasar can …
1 | 2 | 3 NGC 4631 (magnitude 9.6) and NGC 4656 (magnitude 10.6) appear in the same visual field. Both galaxies have the same size – 15′ x 2.5′. NGC 4631 is easily seen with direct vision, but NGC …
1 | 2 | 3 Galaxies observed with a 114-mm telescope NGC 185 is a difficult galaxy belonging to the local group. It is faint, but visible with direct vision at 50x. It has an irregular shape, with diffuse …