Friday, February 3, 2012



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Deep Orion Over the Canary Islands

by Father Sky

Which attracts your eye more -- the sky or the ground? On the ground are rocky peaks in Teide National Park on Tenerife Island of the Spanish Canary Islands off the northwestern coast of Africa. The volcanic landscape features old island summits and is sometimes used as a testbed for instruments on future Martian rovers. [...]

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Great Orion Nebulae

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The Great Nebula in Orion, also known as M42, is one of the most famous nebulas in the sky. The star forming region's glowing gas clouds and hot young stars are on the right in this sharp and colorful image that includes the smaller nebula M43 near center and dusty, bluish reflection nebulae NGC 1977 [...]

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Celestron 93623 Narrowband Oxygen III 1.25 Filter

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For viewing many common nebulas Reduces glare and light scattering Increases contrast through selective filtration Made of high quality, solid plane parallel glass with excellent homogeneity Anti-reflection coated to prevent glaring and ghosting Product DescriptionThe OIII narrowband filter isolates just the two doubly-ionized oxygen lines (496 and 501nm lines) emitted by planetary and emission nebulae, [...]

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Orion SkyQuest XT4.5 Classic Dobsonian Telescope

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114mm aperture and 910mm focal length for views of lunar craters, planets, nebulas, and galaxies Sturdy Dobsonian mount and handy grip knob allow for effortless maneuvering Includes 2 eyepieces, finder scope, focuser, and FREE Starry Night astronomy software One-year limited warranty Product DescriptionWithout spending a fortune you can get a telescope that will not only [...]

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Pattern Asterisms: A New Way to Chart the Stars

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Product DescriptionSince the very beginning of astronomy, people have looked up sky and constructed patterns – the constellations – out of the almost random scattering of stars in the night sky. The fact that the constellations are still used to day reflects not their historical origins, but their usefulness in identifying bright stars in the [...]

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The Magnificent Horsehead Nebula

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Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall", the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is visible only because its obscuring [...]

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Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian Telescope

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203mm aperture and 1200mm focal length allow you to reach deep into space for jaw-dropping images The ultra-stable Dobsonian base keeps the tube perfectly balanced for point-and-view ease of use Now includes an upgraded 2" Crayford-style focuser that accepts 1.25" and 2" eyepieces Product DescriptionOrion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian Telescope Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian [...]

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Spitzer's Orion

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Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1,500 light-years away. Spanning about 40 light-years across the region, this new infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope was constructed from data intended to monitor the brightness of the nebula's young stars, many still surrounded by dusty, planet-forming disks. [...]

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About Telescopes and Getting Into Astronomy

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Astronomy is a fascinating hobby, and when you own your own telescope, astronomy takes on a new meaning. Suddenly you get to see the craters on our Moon. You get to see the rings of Saturn, and so much more. As you read this article, you will discover: * Astronomy Basics * Buying Your [...]

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Moonset Over Pleasant Bay

by Father Sky

It was a sky for the imagination. In the early evening last week, the sky illuminating the unaided eye was perhaps even more illuminating to the mind's eye. The unaided eye saw clouds framing the Moon setting over a calm and reflective bay, spruce trees lining the nearby shores, the Pleiades open star cluster (M45) [...]

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Geostationary Highway

by Father Sky

Put a satellite in a circular orbit about 42,000 kilometers from the center of the Earth (36,000 kilometers or so above the surface) and it will orbit once in 24 hours. Because that matches Earth's rotation period, it is known as a geosynchronous orbit. If that orbit is also in the plane of the equator, [...]

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M42 & Refractor Telescope - 720p HD

by Father Sky

The Great Nebula in Orion, Messier 42 (M42, NGC 1976) as seen through a 102 mm achromatic refractor telescope, Sky Watcher F5 over an EQ6 mount The raw footage is made of 30s exposition per frame as recorded with Canon EOS 450d, DSLR camera (Rebel XTi) Music by myself, in order to avoid copyright problems. [...]

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M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion

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An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78 and other bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion. The dark filamentary dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the light of several bright blue stars that formed recently in the nebula. Of the two reflection nebulas pictured above, the more [...]

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Chasing Carina

by Father Sky

A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, aka NGC 3372, spans over 300 light-years. Near the upper right of this expansive skycape, it is much larger than the more northerly Orion Nebula. In fact, the Carina Nebula is one of our galaxy's largest star-forming regions and home to young, extremely massive stars, [...]

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Celestron 21045 114mm Equatorial PowerSeeker Telescope

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Affordable telescope for beginning astronomer; portable yet powerful All-glass optical components with high transmission coatings for enhanced image brighness and clarity Newtonian optical design with a 114mm aperture and 900mm focal length Equatorial mount for tracking the sky Includes 3x Barlow Lens (1.25"), 20mm eyepiece, 4mm eyepiece, aluminum tripod with accessory tray Product DescriptionThe PowerSeekers [...]

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How to Get Into Amateur Astronomy With Tasco Telescopes

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For many people there first home telescope happens to be a Tasco astronomy telescope. A Tasco astronomy telescope may not be the best astronomy telescope on the market, however, it has allowed people easy entry into the hobby of astronomy and looking at the stars and other space objects. I remember a Tasco [...]

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