Archive for February, 2005

LunarPhase Pro Review (By Chuck Taylor)

Main screen for LunarPhase Pro.

Do you remember when you were a kid and wanted one of those fancy Swiss Army Knifes? There in one red package you could have a saw, scissors, tweezers, toothpick, bottle opener, file, slotted and philips screwdriver and even a knife blade! Well LunarPhase Pro

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Equipment for the Amateur Astronomer


Beginner’s Telescopes

Binoculars and telescopes and other astronomy equipment and accessories are the meat and potatoes of amateur astronomy. A good pair of binoculars is what introduced me to the pleasures of stargazing many moons ago and only after a couple of years scanning the skies did I graduate …

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The Aurora

The Aurora (also known as the Northern Lights, aurora borealis or auror australis) is a luminous glow of the upper atmosphere which is caused by energetic particles that enter the atmosphere from above, primarily from the solar wind.

These energetic particles are mostly electrons, but protons also make aurora. The …

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