Telescope Rides on 3D Printed Equatorial Table

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Telescope Rides On 3D Printed Equatorial Table

In the realm of amateur astronomy, enthusiasts find themselves navigating a cosmos in perpetual motion. Planets revolve around stars, which, in turn, orbit within galaxies. But the axial rotation o…

Pi-lomar Puts an Observatory in Your Hands

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Pi-lomar Puts An Observatory In Your Hands

Humans have loved looking up at the night sky for time immemorial, and that hasn’t stopped today. [MattHh] has taken this love to the next level with the Pi-lomar Miniature Observatory. Built…

Amateur Estimates of Venusian Day using Arecibo Data

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Amateur Estimates Of Venusian Day Using Arecibo Data

[Nathaniel Fairfield] aka [thandal] was curious about the actual rotation and axis tilt of Venus. He decided to spin up at GitHub Python repository to study the issue further, as one does. The scie…

StarPointer Keeps Scope On Target with Stellarium

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StarPointer Keeps Scope On Target With Stellarium

On astronomical telescopes of even middling power, a small “finderscope” is often mounted in parallel to the main optics to assist in getting the larger instrument on target. The low ma…

The #Moon will soon be in its #ThirdQuarter #phase but right now it's still a #WaningGibbous.

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Three #WaningGibbous #phases of the #Moon in a row.

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Tonight's #WaningGibbous #phase of the #Moon.

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It has been a fair while since I #photographed the #Moon. There have been a few days in its cycle that I have been wanting to get and one or two for which I have #images with which I'm not really happy. Anyway, here is tonight's #WaningGibbous #phase, one day after the #FullMoon. There are a few thin #clouds but the image is quite clear.

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As the #sky was brightening but before the #sun had risen, the #Moon made its appearance in the east. It is in its #WaningCrescent #phase and probably the last time I will be able to #photograph it in this cycle (there's a storm forecast for tomorrow and it will rise very close to the time of #sunrise).

#Exposure time of 1/200 s.

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It was a clear #night/morning and so I took these #photographs of #Jupiter, which is currently rising a couple of hours before #sunrise. You can clearly discern the #planet's largest #moons. The #pictures were take at around 03:20 UTC.

This first one has an #exposure time of 1/2 s and the moons are faint.

This one is a 2 s exposure and slightly blurred but the moons can be seen better.

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