This weekend’s full Moon has a special name – the Harvest Moon. It’s the full moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox (Sept. 22). In earlier times, farmers depended on the light of the Harvest Moon to gather ripening crops late into the night. Now we appreciate it mainly for its beauty. Go outside this weekend and enjoy the moonlight.… Read the rest of this article
See the Harvest Moon This Weekend
October 3, 2009
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AAVSO Alert Notice 405: Request for Observations of NSV 99 (Khi Peg) in Support of HST Observations
October 2, 2009
AAVSO Alert Notice 405:
Request for observations of NSV 99 (khi Peg) in support of HST observations
October 2, 2009
Request for observations of NSV 99 (khi Peg) in support of HST observations
October 2, 2009
Dr. Brian Espey (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) has requested Read the rest of this article
photoelectric photometry and bright star CCD photometry of the semiregular variable NSV 99 (= khi Peg) beginning immediately. These observations are in support of ultraviolet spectroscopy to be obtained with the …
NASA Launches IBEX Mission to Outer Solar System
October 2, 2009
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic interactions taking place in the outer solar system.
The spacecraft separated from the third stage of its Pegasus launch vehicle at 1:53 p.m. and immediately began powering … Read the rest of this article
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