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Yuexiao Shen will present his West Texas Observatory project on the Astronomy Imaging Channel (TAIC) on Sunday April, 17th (9:30...
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At a recent star party, my original keypad on my scope died and I had to switch to a spare....
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Ansiaux (1729—1786) (??), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Charles Messier (1730-1817) was a French astronomer and comet hunter. He discovered...
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The presentation for the February meeting was on Messier Marathon by Tom Heisey. I covered the history of Charles Messier...
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NEO Risk and Mitigation In Part I of this series, we discovered the asteroid Apophis' discovery and media furor that...
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I've been photographing Comet Leonard since it emerged from the Sun's brilliance into our evening skies. Since it is less...
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Presentation by Tom Heisey on the Perseverance rover on Mars. In particular, I concentrated on the engineering behind the sample...
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Near-Earth Objects, History and Detection In Part I of this series, we discovered the asteroid Apophis' discovery and media furor...
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Tom Heisey gave the presentation for the September meeting on the current news coming from Mars, primarily from the Perseverance...
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As I was producing a PDF of my presentation from last month's meeting, I realized that the members had so...
