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Posted by: Robin Edgar ⇒ Original Post - REMINDER: As usual, for Novembers, the ACAC will be having the monthly meet a we…Posted by: Athena Community Astronomy Club REMINDER: As usual, for Novembers, the ACAC will be having the monthly meet a week early, to provide reasonable separation with the early December meeting (yeah, year-end busyness). So gather at Wilmot Community Centre, on Gillespie Ave., behind the Shell station on Water Street East, on 19 November, for the 7-9 p.m. revelation of astronomical info and a preview of what going on, up there, during December, as well as a bit of cosmic… Read more: REMINDER: As usual, for Novembers, the ACAC will be having the monthly meet a we…
- THURSDAY before sunrise (7 a.m. in Halifax) look for the brilliant planet Venus…
Posted by: Dave Chapman THURSDAY before sunrise (7 a.m. in Halifax) look for the brilliant planet Venus next to the waning crescent Moon, high in the east. ⇒ Original Post - Just a note to remind members of the monthly ACAC meeting, tonight from 7-9 at W…Posted by: Athena Community Astronomy Club Just a note to remind members of the monthly ACAC meeting, tonight from 7-9 at Wilmot Community Centre, on Gillespie Ave. (off Water Street East, just behind the Shell gas station/Convenience store). Agenda tonight includes a sky overview for November; Words to inspire astronomy education; a couple of videos expounding astronomy topics/concepts; a discussion of autumn-sky viewing possibilities via naked-eye, binoculars, and telescope; an overview of the Local Group of Galaxies: what it is… Read more: Just a note to remind members of the monthly ACAC meeting, tonight from 7-9 at W…
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Pic du Pleiades
Near dawn on November 19 the Pleiades stood in still dark skies over the French Pyrenees. But just before sunrise a serendipitous moment was captured in this single 3 second exposure; a bright meteor streak appeared to pierce the heart of the galactic star cluster. From the camera's perspective, star cluster and meteor were poised directly above the mountain top observatory on the Pic du Midi de Bigorre. And though astronomers might consider the Pleiades to be relatively close by, the grain of dust vaporizing as it plowed through planet Earth's upper atmosphere actually missed the cluster's tight grouping of young stars by about 400 light-years. While recording a night sky timelapse series, the camera and telephoto lens were fixed to a tripod on the Tour-de-France-cycled slopes of the Col du Tourmalet about 5 kilometers from the Pic du Midi.
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