Archives for June 2005
Posted by Davin Flateau on 23 Jun 2005 at 11:52 pm.
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UFO reports are about to spike, as earthlings are treated to a spectacular sight in the sky this weekend. The planets Venus, Mercury and Saturn are coming together in the sky just after sunset to form a brilliant light.
Simply go outside and look to the west just after sunset. Hanging near the […]
Posted by Davin Flateau on 24 Jun 2005 at 12:00 am.
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June 24-25 - Observing at Lake Afton Public Observatory (Wichita) 9-11pm, Program: “Hubble’s Universe”
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Posted by Davin Flateau on 25 Jun 2005 at 12:00 am.
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June 25 - Conjunction observing with the North Central Kansas Astronomical Society (Manhattan, Kansas) 8:45pm. Watch as Venus, Mercury and Saturn in close proximity - Venus and Mercury are in conjunction on the 26th.
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Posted by Davin Flateau on 25 Jun 2005 at 12:00 am.
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Astronomical Society of Kansas City - Election of Officers and Annual Swap Meet - 6/25 7pm
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Posted by Davin Flateau on 25 Jun 2005 at 12:00 am.
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June 25 - Observing at Powell Observatory, Louisburg Kansas, 8:30pm. Program: “Are We There Yet?”
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Posted by Davin Flateau on 25 Jun 2005 at 12:00 am.
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June 24-25 - Observing at Lake Afton Public Observatory (Wichita) 9-11pm, Program: “Hubble’s Universe”
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Posted by Davin Flateau on 27 Jun 2005 at 1:34 pm.
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Don’t forget - the conjunction of Venus, Mercury and Saturn is at its best tonight, just after sunset in the west. If you have any photographs you’d like to share with other readers, email them to me. Check out our conjunction guide for more information! May the skies be clear…
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Posted by Davin Flateau on 28 Jun 2005 at 11:30 am.
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Did you get a good look at the conjunction? Down where I live, a thin band of clouds at sunset obscured the event over the weekend, but Monday was spectacular.
There’s more going on in the sky. Courtesy of our friends at Universe Today, it’s the sky events for this week. Put […]
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Posted by Davin Flateau on 28 Jun 2005 at 1:23 pm.
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Just about everything in astronomy is big - billions of light years here, millions of galaxies there. So it’s no surprise that the instruments we use to study the Universe are equally as mammoth. The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Lab’s enormous mirror-making furnace is getting ready to make the first […]
Posted by Davin Flateau on 29 Jun 2005 at 9:28 am.
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Even before the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, scientists thought that cloud-covered Titan might harbor lakes or seas of organic liquid. The Huygens lander that parachuted to the surface in January didn’t reveal anything like that directly, but there was plenty of evidence that something liquid had once poured over the surface of this […]
