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Looking for a shape of `Kite`
Published on 30 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 30th May 2010 @ 22:00 / 10pm
Constellation :- Bootes (The Herdsman)
This month and next month June, you will see the Bootes shape as a kite with a brightest star, Arcturus, is Greek for “bear guard”.
Bootes is far off the Milky Way therefore lacks Open Clusters and Diffuse Nebula ~ Like most off the [...]
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Moon, Mars and Regulus
Published on 20 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 20th May 2010 @ 22:00 / 10pm
See the Triangle tonight
The First Quarter Moon forms a triangle with the Red Planets – Mars and Regulus Star in the evening twilight from 21:00 / 9pm. (Click here for enlarge image, the map is shown for tonight at 10pm.)
The Sun will pass through the Leo from 10 [...]
Find the M97 (Owl Nebula)
Published on 15 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 15th May 2010 @ 22:00 / 10pm
Owl Nebula (Messier 97)
This glowing gas bubble is estimated to be 6,000 years old in the most famous constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear).
M97 is the faintest, however it does have some details within the nebula and this makes it interesting – the owner of small [...]
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Do not miss – M104 (Sombereo Galaxy)
Published on 10 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 10th May 2010 @ 22:00 / 10pm
DON’T MISS – Use a telescope to find the Sombereo Galaxy (M104) in the constellation of southern Virgo (The Virgin). This galaxy has a dark band of dust in the plane of its disc, which seems to split the galaxy in half.
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Messier 64 – Black Eye Galaxy
Published on 9 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 9th May 2010
Messier 64 – Black Eye Galaxy
This bright, beautiful spiral galaxy is Messier 64, sometimes known as the Black Eye Galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair).
The dark clouds along the near-side of M64′s central region that give the galaxy its black-eye appearance are enormous obscuring dust clouds associated with star formation.
Very bright and [...]
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Ghost of Jupiter (NGC 3242)
Published on 7 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 7th May 2010 @ 22:00 / 10pm
Ghost of Jupiter (NGC 3242)
Many years ago the planetary got the nickname “Ghost of Jupiter” because it is somewhat shape and about the same angular size as the giant planet that William Herschel discovered this planetary nebula on February 7, 1785, his home was at Bath in the [...]
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Deep Sky Object :- M68 (Globular Cluster)
Published on 6 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 6th May 2010 @ 22:00 / 10pm
M68 – Globular Cluster (NGC 4590)
Low concentration of stars but it’s large also well resolved in telescope but a firm hold round in binoculars in the constellation of Hydra (The Water-Snake) -the largest of all the 88 constellations.
Visible from this month till the middle of June, Highest in [...]
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Deep Sky Objects – M67 & M48
Published on 3 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 3rd May 2010
Messier 67 Messier 48
To find Messier 67 and 48, both Open Clusters can be spotted by binocular, in the SkyMap for following the blue line in the southwest at 10pm tonight or following other nights if the sky is clear.
Messier 67
One of the oldest known open cluster [...]
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Venus and Seven Sisters
Published on 24 Apr 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 24th April 2010 @ 21:00 / 9pm
Venus in brightest and Seven Sisters (Messier 45)
Catch Venus in an evening twilight conjunction with the `Seven Sisters` (Pleiades – star cluster). As the `Seven Sisters` slips lower in the sky it shares the evening with the brightest planet – Venus in the west. (A Great photo opportunity!)
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Moon near Mars
Published on 21 Apr 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 21st April 2010 @ 22:00 / 10pm
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See the First Quarter Moon near Mars and the Beehive Cluster that will be great opportunity for astrophotography to capture the Moon near the Red Planet – Mars and the Open Cluster -Beehive Cluster (Messier 44).
