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Ancient Lunar Calendar
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Ancient Chinese Calendar A lunar calendar uses the time that it takes the Moon to go round the Earth as one month. A lunar year is about 11 days shorter than a solar year. The ancient Chinese calendar is a solar-lunar calendar. The months are set according to the cycles of the Moon, and the years are set ac...
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Supermassive blackhole discovery
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NASA will hold a televised news conference at 12:30 pm EST, 15th November, 2010, in which they will announce latest discovery by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Astronomers and UFO bloggers alike have been waiting in anticipation for NASA's press conference today on the discovery of 'an exception...
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European Satellite Navigation Competition awards
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European Satellite Navigation Competition awards This year's ESA Innovation Prize for the European Satellite Navigation Competition has been awarded to an application that uses satellites to detect river pollution. A separate prize supported by ESA was awarded to a startup company for a pione...
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18th annual Ballunar Liftoff Festival
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When most people think of NASA, they think of rockets and space travel, but for one weekend each year, the majesty of flight is adored in the form of hot air balloons. The 18th annual Ballunar Liftoff Festival takes place between Friday, Oct. 29 and Saturday, Oct. 31 at the NASA/Johnson Space Center. [...
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Meteor Showers There are many minor meteor showers this month... Orionids produce rates of 5-15/hour with occasional surges in activity that may reach 25 or even 50/hour. The shower's radiant near Betelgeuse is best-placed just before morning twilight begins. Its radiant is R.A. 6hr 20m Dec +16 d...
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A magnitude 14.9 supernova, 2006gy, was discovered on the 18th September 2006, by the Texas Supernova Search in the galaxy NGC 1260, in the constellation Perseus.
The supernova is located 2".0 west and 0".4 north of the centre of the galaxy.
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Planetary Defence Conference
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1st IAA Planetary Defence Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids 27 - 30 April 2009 Granada, Spain The International Academy of Astronautics will hold its first conference on protecting our planet from impacts by asteroids and comets the week of April 27, 2009 in Granada, Spain. The 1st IAA...
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International Astronomy Day
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Celebrate Astronomy Day with the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh www.3ap.org , at one of two public star parties held at each of their observatories. North of Pittsburgh, find the Wagman Public Star Party, Wagman Observatory, Deer Lakes Park. South of Pittsburgh find the Mingo Pu...
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September 2010
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Meteor Showers There are no major meteor showers this month... September is a month with the best sporadic rates and a few mysterious minor showers. The Alpha Aquarids are active from Aug. 25 to Sept. 5, normally with a ZHR of 10. this year it may be quite active The Delta Aquarids are active September 5...
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The parent comet of the Perseid shower, is Comet Swift Tuttle, discovered by joint observers. Astronomer Lewis Swift discovered the comet on July 16, 1862, and Astronomer Horace Tuttle on July 19, 1862. The comet has an official designation as 109P/Swift Tuttle ... this being the 109th periodic co...
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Bengaluru Space Expo 2010
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WORLD SPACE BIZ 2010 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPACE TECHNOLOGY 25-28 August, 2010: BIEC, Bengaluru, India India has made major strides in space research, development and its application for the socio-economic upliftment. The main focus of the Bengaluru Space Expo 2010 is to showcase the...
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Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower
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The Southern Iota Aquarids meteor shower peaks on August 5 with a ZHR of two. With these low rates one would be lucky to see one shower member per hour. The radiant is currently located in south-western Aquarius, five degrees west of the third magnitude star Delta Aquarii. At 34 km/sec the meteors have...
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Venus
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In early May, Venus began to emerge as an evening star very low in the western twilight. This evening, it sets 27 degrees north of due west (almost three widths of your fist held at arm’s length) nearly an hour after sunset.
By June 1 this will have improved to 80 minutes, giving even casual obs...
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Marshall Martz Observatory
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Telescope To Have Camera Added Read more
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Yorkshire Museum
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Visitors to the Yorkshire Museum can take a close-up look through the Museum's 160-year-old telescope, standing in an observatory in the gardens. The observatory was built in 1832 and 1833 and its 4in refractor telescope was built by York man Thomas Cooke in 1850 before he went on to make the then-la...
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