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Milky Way Sky: Going for M63
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Milky Way Sky blogs. I Love my Canon Rebel. Saturday, July 5, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Real-time Earth and Moon phase. Aquarius Waterjug to Neptune July 2014. View my complete profile. Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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Milky Way Sky: October 2013
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Milky Way Sky blogs. I Love my Canon Rebel. Thursday, October 31, 2013. Finding Uranus in Oct 2013. There is an easy way to find Uranus:. Locate Algenib in the square of Pegasus. To it's immediate lower right is 38 Pisces. Follow down lower left 2 more stars and you find 35 Pisces. 35 Pisces is in a diamond structure with 3 other like-magnitude stars. At the extreme left of this diamond structure is 41 Pisces. Rotate your finderscope a little down and left and you will find 51 Pisces. In the Aquarius Wat...
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Milky Way Sky: Altair, Deneb and Vega
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Milky Way Sky blogs. I Love my Canon Rebel. Sunday, November 3, 2013. Altair, Deneb and Vega. Deneb fascinates At an estimated distance of 800parsecs or about 2600ly (wikipedia), it competes in luminence (magnitude 1.25) with the other 2 stars that make the Summer Triangle - Vega and Altair. Vega is 25 ly and Altair 6 ly. To the South-west are the faint star of Ophiucus through which the equator also runs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Real-time Earth and Moon phase. Altair, Deneb and Vega.
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Milky Way Sky: July 2014
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Milky Way Sky blogs. I Love my Canon Rebel. Saturday, July 5, 2014. Friday, July 4, 2014. Aquarius Waterjug to Neptune July 2014. Neptune is to the left of Sigma Aquarii (a 4.8 mag star and approx 277ly from us) in July/Aug 2014. In dark skies the Aquarius waterjug is easy to get in a finderscope since it is less than 4 deg across. Hop down to 60 Aquarii right below at mag 5.87 and to Kappa Aquarii (mag 5). Sigma Aquarii at mag 4.8 is to the right of this triange (within 4 degs). View my complete profile.
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Milky Way Sky: Finding Uranus in Oct 2013
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Milky Way Sky blogs. I Love my Canon Rebel. Thursday, October 31, 2013. Finding Uranus in Oct 2013. There is an easy way to find Uranus:. Locate Algenib in the square of Pegasus. To it's immediate lower right is 38 Pisces. Follow down lower left 2 more stars and you find 35 Pisces. 35 Pisces is in a diamond structure with 3 other like-magnitude stars. At the extreme left of this diamond structure is 41 Pisces. Rotate your finderscope a little down and left and you will find 51 Pisces.
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Milky Way Sky: Re-strategizing the star hop to Coma Berenices and M64-starting from Arcturus is better
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Milky Way Sky blogs. I Love my Canon Rebel. Saturday, June 21, 2014. Re-strategizing the star hop to Coma Berenices and M64-starting from Arcturus is better. Coma Berenices is an asterism/constellation that can be located between Arcturus and Denebola (Leo). It. contains the Melotte 111 open star cluster. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Real-time Earth and Moon phase. From Vega to Albireo. Re-strategizing the star hop to Coma Berenices and. View my complete profile.
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Milky Way Sky: Aquarius Waterjug to Neptune July 2014
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Milky Way Sky blogs. I Love my Canon Rebel. Friday, July 4, 2014. Aquarius Waterjug to Neptune July 2014. Neptune is to the left of Sigma Aquarii (a 4.8 mag star and approx 277ly from us) in July/Aug 2014. In dark skies the Aquarius waterjug is easy to get in a finderscope since it is less than 4 deg across. Hop down to 60 Aquarii right below at mag 5.87 and to Kappa Aquarii (mag 5). To the lower right of Kappa Aquarii you should be able to make out an equilateral triangle of 3 mag 6 stars.
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Milky Way Sky: The wrath of Poseidon: Star hopping to find Neptune in Oct 2013
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Milky Way Sky blogs. I Love my Canon Rebel. Thursday, October 31, 2013. The wrath of Poseidon: Star hopping to find Neptune in Oct 2013. Neptune is 7.8 magnitude and probably better to look for it under dark skies. Actually the big 'W' traditionally associated with Cassiopeia reminds me more of the Golden State Warriors than anything else. To find Neptune, start from Sadachbia. Another option is from Deneb Algiedi in Capricon. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Real-time Earth and Moon phase. Awesome In...