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Astronomy Day, May 10: Sponsors needed!
In all of Texas, only residents of El Paso have a sponsor for Astronomy Day activities (participating astronomy groups are the Gene Roddenberry Planetarium, El Paso Astronomy Club, and Junior League of El Paso, meeting at El Paso Desert ...
Astronomy News
There are a couple of good astronomy stories out this week that should knock the socks off the young earth creationists. Of course, in actuality it will do no such thing because creationists are totally oblivious to the way in which all ...
Astronomy Lecture
The UT Astronomers' Lecture Series presents a lecture by assistant professor JD Smith.Lecture will be followed by a short planetarium program and viewing at one of the telescopes (weather permitting).Free and open to the public. ...
Ten things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy
But a lot of spirals have a weird feature: a rectangular block of stars at the center instead of a sphere, and the arms radiate away from the ends of the block. Astronomers call this block a bar, and, you guessed it: we have one. ...
The Astronomy of Easter
... the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. - Exodus 12:14. ********************************************************. Please finish this fascinating article at Classical Astronomy. Site Feed.
Wedge v. Stacking Software?
OK a newbie question here. I've had a good Celestron CPC telescope for about a year now and was interested in getting into Astrophotography this summer. I just got a digital SLR Camera (Canon) and already have a connector for the scope. ...
Meet Dextre
You’ve probably heard about Dextre, the robot delivered to the International Space Station aboard the shuttle. Dextre is a two-armed Special Purpose Dexterous manipulator, the third and final component of the Mobile Servicing System ...
Mare Nectaris
This is a two shot mosaic of Mare Nectaris taken last Tuesday night. The large crater at the bottom of the mare is Fracastorius. I found a great on-line Moon map that helps me find these details. The two images were stacked in Registax, ...
Barking mad
I know I haven’t been posting much lately; it’s been an interesting week. I’ve had several projects keeping me busy, including one cool one that I’ll be telling y’all about later. I also have some old friends visiting, so we’ve been out ...
Something I threw together for an intro to a school project
This is a picture for the opening slide for my history class project on the 20's. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...heshinning.jpg I have feeling no one in the class will get the reference though ...