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Star Parties in 2025

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 by Richard Harris

Imagine this: You’re standing in the middle of a dark field, far from the glare of city lights - our natural Hobbit-like habitat. As amateur astronomers, we tend to be solitary creatures, happiest when left alone under the night sky with nothing but the hum of tracking motors and the whisper o...

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Galaxy visualization project

Thursday, September 12, 2024 by Richard Harris

It was 1923 and Edwin Hubble (eh hum born not far from me), using the 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, was able to resolve individual stars in the Andromeda Nebula (M31), including Cepheid variables. By measuring the period of these Cepheids, Hubble calculated their distan...

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