Dark Sky Astronomy

CTV.caWatch Venus transit with astronomy clubDaily Inter LakeOn June 5, as Venus passes between Earth and the sun for the last time this century, members of the Big Sky Astronomy Club will make their telescopes available for the public. At 2:30 pm Tuesday at Flathead Valley Community College, club president Mark ...On Astronomy: Venus transit coming up TuesdayBroomfield EnterpriseOklahoma City Astronomy Club will host viewing for rare transit...  

The very bright red-orange colored planet is easy to spot and is to the east of the bright blue-white star Regulus, in the constellation Leo the Lion. Also all month, the planet Saturn will be high in the southern evening sky. The golden glow of ...  

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You need to stay up late to get dark skies this month and they are short lived, but don't let that stop you from going out and having a look around at the wonders of the heavens. So the planet Venus is going to transit the face of the Sun. So what? Well to astronomers the world over this is a big event. It happens once every 105.5 or 121.5 years and then has a gap of 8 years. Why it happens like this is a little complex, but suffice it to say...  

What are the biggest unsolved mysteries of the cosmos? That’s what the journal Science [pay site] set out to identify in its current issue. “To round up some of the most enduring mysteries in the field of astronomy … Science enlisted help ...  

Just days after Australia and South Africa were picked to host the world’s largest-ever radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a workshop in Brussels yesterday looked at funding opportunities for African and European radio astronomy partnerships.  

The prize for astrophysics is shared by David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles; Jane Luu of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory; and Michael Brown of the California ... shared by Cornelia Bargmann of the Rockefeller University in New York ...  

GAINESVILLE, Fla. —The rare occurrence of the planet Venus passing directly between the Earth and the sun will take place Tuesday evening. It will be visible from Gainesville between 6:03 and 8:26 p.m. The University of Florida department of ...  

This is a talk I gave jointly with my colleague Ewa Deelman (ISI, USC) at Caltech on May 9. I have had a number of requests to post the slides, so I will do so here: Cloud IPAC May 9 gbb ewa final copy. We attempted to give a ...  

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Did you know, that the astronomy research topics around the astronomy research topics, not the individual using the astronomy research paper, a special type of binocular glass call long eye relief is needed. Therefore it is ...  

Solar eclipse was real-life astronomy lesson for millionsLos Angeles TimesAcross the country, the solar eclipse Sunday seemed to kindle an infectious enthusiasm for astronomy. In New Mexcio's Chaco Canyon, Jay Anderson, a Canadian eclipse expert who runs the website Eclipser, marveled at the spectacle.and more »  

Last month, UNCA announced a plan to partner with the Astronomy ... and an unheated observation room. A key design element for the latter will be borrowed from Arghiere’s personal observatory at his Haw Creek home: a metal roof that retracts all the ...  

Barely had Brian Schmidt accepted the Nobel prize in physics than tension ... and allocated them to institutions. James Allison, an astrophysicist and former University of Oxford postdoctoral researcher, spotted the University of Sydney ad for a researcher ...  

That evening, professional stargazer Tony LaConte of Stargazing for Everyone LLC will host a presentation at the center's Family Star Night with the history of the telescope as the main topic and telescope viewing if weather permits. Visitors ...