- EarthSky | March equinox 2023: All you need to know
Posted by: Athena Community Astronomy Club EarthSky | March equinox 2023: All you need to know ⇒ Original Post - Build a zero-magnification finder for your telescope
Posted by: Athena Community Astronomy Club skyatnightmagazine.com Build a zero-magnification finder for your telescope ⇒ Original Post - See Venus and Jupiter meet in the night sky in March
Posted by: BBC Sky at Night Magazine How to see Jupiter and Venus in the sky this month #jupitervenus https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/observing-guide-how-see-planets-march/ See Venus and Jupiter meet in the night sky in March ⇒ Original Post - IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Due to a scheduling error for our regular venue, the Athena C…Posted by: Athena Community Astronomy Club IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to a scheduling error for our regular venue, the Athena Community Astronomy Club meeting for tonight, 26 February, will instead be at the St. Eleanors Community Club, beside the firehall at the corner of East Drive – North Drive – South Drive – West Drive 4-way intersection in the west end of Summerside. (just up the street from the Irving fuel station on Rte. 2) Same time: 7 – 9 p.m. […]
- EarthSky | Bright planets Venus and Jupiter: Watch!
Posted by: EarthSky Look up! Dazzling Venus and bold Jupiter have crept closer together all month. This week – around Tuesday and Wednesday evenings – we saw a spectacular scene in the evening twilight, as the young moon joined the show. Now we’re looking ahead toward the Venus-Jupiter conjunction – when they’ll be closest on our sky’s dome – on March 1 and 2. At conjunction, Venus will pass 0.5 degrees (the width of a full moon) from Jupiter. It’ll […]
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M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
How far can you see? The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy, over two million light-years away. Without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy appears as an unremarkable, faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda. But a bright white nucleus, dark winding dust lanes, luminous blue spiral arms, and bright red emission nebulas are recorded in this stunning fifteen-hour telescopic digital mosaic of our closest major galactic neighbor. But how do we know this spiral nebula is really so far away? This question was central to the famous Shapley-Curtis debate of 1920. M31's great distance was determined in the 1920s by observations that resolved individual stars that changed their brightness in a way that gave up their true distance. The result proved that Andromeda is just like our Milky Way Galaxy -- a conclusion making the rest of the universe much more vast than had ever been previously imagined.
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