From NASA’s Science News comes this reminder about the upcoming transit by Mercury:
The transit begins at 2:12 pm EST (11:12 am PST) and lasts for almost five hours. Good views can be had from the Americas, Hawaii, Australia and all along the Pacific Rim
A map of where and when the transit is visible can be [...]
2006 Transit of Mercury
October 22nd, 2006 · No Comments
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A Better Asteroid Movie
October 12th, 2006 · No Comments
Here’s a better quicktime movie of my asteroid from the other night.
As with the other images I’ve shown, the images here were taken using an SBIG STL-6303e CCD attached to a Meade 16″ LX-200. The exposures are 90 seconds long with 8.5 minutes between exposures.
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M71 Image - Post Processing
October 9th, 2006 · No Comments
Last month I posted a preliminary image of M71 taken by me using the UND Space Studies Internet Telescope. This was just a first run using the observatory, and was not meant for anything special. But I thought that I’d process the image a little bit and see what it looked like.
To review, the image [...]
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