Astronomy - USA (2020-08)
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WHEN TO VIEW THE PLANETS August 22, 3 A.M. EDT 30" Ganymede’s shadow S W Io Ganymede Io’s shadow 30 ` b f m i _ + a g j^1 h j^2 ...
Path of Iris M23 0.5° SAGITTARIUS N E August 1 5 10 15 (^302520) WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 43 LOCATING ASTEROIDS I Steady as she stays I ...
44 ASTRONOMY • AUGUST 2020 PERSEIDS Don’t miss the This annual meteor shower will put on a great show in 2020. BY MICHAEL E. BAK ...
Looking northeast 2 A.M., August 12 Polaris Radiant Algol Pleiades Capella Aldebaran ARIES PERSEUS TAURUS AURIGA 10° WWW.ASTRONO ...
46 ASTRONOMY • AUGUST 2020 You must be less than 120 miles (200 kilometers) from a meteor to see it. Meteors become visible at a ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 47 showers, of which 112 have been established by repeated observations. With only 88 constellations in the sk ...
48 ASTRONOMY • AUGUST 2020 another observer who was con- tinuously playing Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” from the Titanic ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 49 dark adaptation (and judg- ment and many other things). Some late nights during the summer in the north can ...
l a _ o ` p + m f g d e k j q / r s Altair Barnard’s E AQUILA DELPHINUS CAPRICORNUS SAGITTARIUS –10° 0° 10° 21h 20h MAP SYMBOLS ...
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How to breathe new life into old astrophoto targets. TEXT AND IMAGES BY STEVE CANNISTRA WIDE Life SIDE on the ...
AT SOME POINT in an amateur astrophotographer’s journey, you reach a plateau. You may find that you’ve imaged most common target ...
54 ASTRONOMY • AUGUST 2020 that I have owned for many years. This avoids the smaller field of view typical of most DSLR camera c ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 55 are specific to building a wide-field com- posite. Above you’ll see a typical image from the Pentax 200mm/U ...
56 ASTRONOMY • AUGUST 2020 Catch the two greatest telescopic planets at opposition this month and you’ll see beautiful planetary ...
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South Polar Region North Polar Region South South Temperate Zone South South Temperate Belt South Temperate Zone South Temperate ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 59 on Saturn over the past 140 years, alternating between the equator and midlatitudes. Up until 1990, all the ...
60 ASTRONOMY • AUGUST 2020 This clever device will capture celestial portraits even through light-polluted skies. BY RAYMOND SHU ...
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