Here’s a video of an X-class flare from sunspot AR1429, which unleashed more than 50 solar flares during the first two weeks of March: Read more about Camilla’s adventures,or our previous article,How a Rubber Chicken is Spreading the Word About NASA’s Space Missions and Science. ...
Over a decade ago, before we were married, Dave North got the idea to make a 3-D model of the full moon that he could use for the SJAA astronomy class. I got drafted to help. We started by cutting a 3-foot disk of wood, on which we drew a carefully measured grid corresponding ...
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Side note. Alan was asked by the county schools to teach an astronomy class. He ended up teaching an autistic boy from the Scott Valley… It was an hour and a half long class.(Alan left after this)Long discussion of the Astronomical League and the different clubs there are to do. The ...
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barransclass.com Orion The constellation of Orion is a grouping of stars which lies over the equatorial region of Earth, and as such will be visible all over the planet, though only during a part of the year. Basically this will be the period around November to March (the winter months ...
Even in the 20th century, while they were being eclipsed by the burgeoning professional class, amateurs continued to make valuable contributions to astronomical research. Arthur Stanley Williams, a lawyer, charted the differential rotation of Jupiter’s clouds and created the system of Jovian nomenclatu...
Turner putting in my hand when I graduated from Junior I Sunday School and went into the Junior II class with the fifth graders. “Who are you? Screwtape?” I chuckled. It quickly became apparent that the joke was on me. He was walking toward me, closer and closer, holding that book...
Pinwheel Galaxy M101 imaged with an 8 inch SCT at 1140 mm focal length, an ASI 533MC astronomy camera with UV-IR filter, DIY reducer, and tracked with a restored Vixen Great Polaris mount. M101 has a very low surface brightness. Use the stars near Alcor and Mizar of the Big Dipper to...
Results: The star has been classified as having the spectral type O3If* given its resemblance to standard examples of the class. In addition, we found that Sapaki is highly obscured, reaching a line-of-sight extinction value of $A_{V} = 7.87$. We estimated the heliocentric distance to ...