This Week's Sky at a Glance for November 11 – 19
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2011/11/13 22:25:01
This Week''s Sky at a Glance for November 11 – 19This Week''s Sky at a GlanceSome daily events in the changing sky for November 11 – 19by Alan M. MacRobert.Thursday, Nov. 17 The bright eclipsing variable star Algol should be in one of its periodic dimmings, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple hours centered on 10:13 p.m.Sky &Telescope diagram.
This Week's Sky at a Glance for October 28 – November 5
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This Week''s Sky at a Glance for October 28 – November 5This Week''s Sky at a GlanceSome daily events in the changing sky for October 28 – November 5by Alan M. MacRobert.European observers: move each Moon symbol a quarter of the way toward the one for the previous date.)Sky &Telescope diagram Friday, Oct. 28 In bright twilight, look for the thin crescent Moon very low in the southwest.
This Week's Sky at a Glance for September 16 – 24
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2011/9/18 17:21:30
This Week''s Sky at a Glance for September 16 – 24This Week''s Sky at a GlanceSome daily events in the changing sky for September 16 -24by Alan M. MacRobert.The waning Moon passes Mars and Regulus in the early hours of the morning.Sky &Telescope diagramThursday, Sept. 22 Before dawn tomorrow, lookeast and you can spot Mars upper left of the waning Moon, as shown here.
This Week's Sky at a Glance for September 8 – 17
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2011/9/10 23:33:11
This Week''s Sky at a Glance for September 8 – 17This Week''s Sky at a GlanceSome daily events in the changing sky for September 8 -17by Alan M. MacRobert.Sky &Telescope diagramThursday, Sept. 8 During dawn Friday morning, spotMercury low in the east about 45 minutes before sunrise.Saturday, Sept. 10 Jupiter''s inner moon Iodisappears into eclipse by Jupiter''s shadow around 1:47 a.m.
This Week's Sky at a Glance for July 29 – August 6
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This Week''s Sky at a Glance for July 29 – August 6This Week''s Sky at a GlanceSome daily events in the changing sky for July 29 -August 6by Alan M. MacRobert.Tuesday, August 2 Before the waxing Moonstarts lighting the evening sky in a few days, try hunting faintgalaxies on the arched back of Draco using Ken Hewitt-White''s "GoingDeep" article and charts in the August Sky &Telescope, page 62.
This Week's Sky at a Glance for June 24 - July 2
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2011/6/27 21:04:13
This Week''s Sky at a Glance for June 24 - July 2This Week''s Sky at a GlanceSome daily events in the changing sky, June 24 - July 2by Alan M. MacRobert.Sky &Telescope diagramThursday, June 30 Low in the west-northwestduring twilight, Mercury finally forms a straight line with fainterCastor and Pollux, as shown here.Sky &Telescope diagram.Mercury(about magnitude -0.7) is deep in the glow of sunse
This Week's Sky at a Glance for June 17 – 25
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2011/6/18 14:53:59
This Week''s Sky at a Glance for June 17 – 25This Week''s Sky at a GlanceSome daily events in the changing sky for June 17 -25by Alan M. MacRobert.Wednesday, June 22 Now that the Moon isgone from the evening sky, try hunting out galaxies hear the head ofSerpens using Sue French''s "Deep-Sky Wonders" chart, photos, and articlein the June Sky &Telescope,page 62.
This Week's Sky at a Glance for May 20 – 28
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2011/5/25 23:43:34
This Week''s Sky at a Glance for May 20 – 28This Week''s Sky at a GlanceSome daily events in the changing sky for May 20 -28.by Alan M. MacRobert.Sunday, May 22 Faint Mars is passing about 1. above bright Venus this morning through Tuesday morning.With binoculars or a low-power scope, look fortiny, faint Mars 2. upper right of Venus and Mercury 4. lower left ofVenus.
Three Low-Cost Telescopes - Homepage News - SkyandTelescope.comThree Low-Cost TelescopesDecember 13, 2010by Joshua Roth and Tony Flanders.Authors Roth and Flanders pose with the three scopes that they reviewed in the March 2011 issue of Sky &Telescope.Rajani FlandersAt public star parties and astronomy classes, people often ask ushow much they need to spend to buy a decent telescope.