See the Harvest Moon This Weekend
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…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 405: Request for Observations of NSV 99 (Khi Peg) in Support of HST Observations
AAVSO Alert Notice 405: Request for observations of NSV 99 (khi Peg) in support of HST observations October 2, 2009 Dr. Brian Espey (Trinity College, Dublin,…
Read the articleNASA Launches IBEX Mission to Outer Solar System
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…
Read the articleWater Molecules Discovered on the Moon
NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater…
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MESSENGER Prepares for Final Pass by Mercury
Messenger at Mercury. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER will…
Read the articleNew Sunspots (Finally!)
In a year when the sun has been utterly blank 80% of the time, the sudden emergence of two large sunspots in a single day is…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 404: Supernova 2009ig Has Brightened
AAVSO Alert Notice 404: Supernova 2009ig has brightened September 21, 2009 Event: Type-Ia Supernova 2009ig in NGC 1015 has brightened Discovered By: I. Kleiser, S. B.…
Read the articlePolar Aligning and a Stupid Mistake
Having got a clear night where I was available, I decided to Polar Align the polar scope in the EQ6 mount. The instruction manual has a…
Read the articleLCROSS Reveals Target Crater for Lunar South Pole Impacts
Close up image of crater Cabeus A near the moon’s south pole and show crater elevation. Yellow represents lower elevations. Credit: NASA/JPL NASA has selected a…
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First Images From Rejuvinated Hubble Space Telescope
September 9, 2009: Astronomers have declared NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release of observations from four of its six operating science…
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