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Picking a telescope is much like picking a vehicle. There are many options available and it can be a bit...
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If you're wanting to head out under the stars, Sky and Telescope's "This Week's Sky At a Glance" is a...
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Presentation by Patrice Fay at our January meeting. My journey with astronomical sketching begins about 23 years ago, when I...
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Pass the word to girls interested in engineering and space flight - NASA has a webinar next Monday, 6 pm...
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Tom Heisey presented basic information on the Parker Solar Probe after its first pass close to the sun. The presentation...
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Welcome to the new SouthPlainsAstronomy.org web site. Please bear with us as we update the site. Content will be missing...
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NASA's newest rover has safely landed on Mars after almost 300,000,000 miles of travel from Earth. The hardest part is...
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I did the First Magnitude Star Challenge on the evening of December 24-25, 2020. This star challenge actually begins way...
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By Collin Smith Sunday night, December 20th, found me in my front driveway around 6:10 PM setting up my Celestron...
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by Collin Smith Attendees:Gary Leiker, 8" Edge Celestron SCT on AVX go-to equatorial mountSteve Maas, Orion Maksutov 127mm. Not sure...
