Astronomy & Observing

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NASA/JPL – What’s Up in March 2012?

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Check Out Mars As It Makes Its Close Approach

Coming up: check out the view of Mars, the reddish-orange object, just below the constellation Leo.  Mars will be making its close approach between February 24th thru about March 9th or so. Daily observing of the 2012 Mars close approach … Read the rest of this entry

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Some Aurora Photos from 10/24/2011

An aurora broke out over the US, and there was quite a view for those in upstate NY, especially the more western part of the state.  Very little activity was seen from the Binghamton area, but in Candor, NY just … Read the rest of this entry

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Tonight’s Sky for May, 2011

Check out the May, 2011 edition of Tonight’s Sky brought to you by HubbleSite.org.

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Tonight’s Sky for April 2011

Check out the April, 2011 edition of Tonight’s Sky brought to you by HubbleSite.org.

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A Target for Galaxy Season – Spiral Galaxy NGC 2403

Note: this post is cross listed from www.kreegan99.org Coming out of winter, my astronomy observing bug begins to kick in. Getting all excited about the fair weather season coming up and I start to build my galaxy season target list. … Read the rest of this entry

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