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This map unfolds the entire night sky from sunset (at right) until sunrise (at left). Arrows and colored dots show motions and l ...
1° 5 TAURUS PERSEUS q k c s r Pleiades Feb 1 Path of Comet PANSTARRS N E March 1 9 13 17 21 25 Comet PANSTARRS (C/2016 R2) 30" F ...
0.5° Path of Ceres Feb 1 5 9 13 17 21 25 March 1 CANCER f m m m m o N E A dwarf planet comes to the fore The Moon takes a bi ...
44 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2018 Michael Carroll and Rosaly Lopes visit Antarctica to learn what the frigid continent can tell scien ...
O WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 45 Of all the tools a planetary scientist uses to study other worlds, comparing features found on different ...
46 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2018 McMurdo, or Mac Town, as the inhabitants affectionately call it, has the feel of a small town. Peop ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 47 of the air we breathe today comes from the atmospheric building blocks of early eruptions. The other terres ...
48 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2018 Saturn’s volcanic poster child One moon that certainly does spew water is Saturn’s Enceladus. Its w ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 49 it does have a stove used to prepare meals. Another wooden struc- ture serves as a garage for repairing sci ...
You know the Orion Nebula. Now discover many more telescopic sights within winter’s showpiece constellation. by Phil Harrington ...
These evenings are among the best all year for deep-sky exploring. The night sky is ablaze with dazzling suns suspended in an oc ...
52 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2018 offers a different perspective. Black skies, low powers, and averted vision work best to see faint, ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 53 Switch to a low-power, wide- field eyepiece to enjoy our next object. NGC 1981 is a coarse, scattered open ...
54 ASTRONOMY • FEBRUARY 2018 faintest wisp through my 8-inch at 54x. Bordering M78 to the south- west are two more clouds, NGC 2 ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 55 lie within the constellation. Xi (ξ) Orionis, in the Hunter’s raised right arm, is a good starting point in ...
Around the sky with a Observer Dan Lewelyn looks through a 6-inch Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 telescope at Deerlick Astronomy Village ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 57 DO YOU OWN A SMALL TELESCOPE? By “small,” I mean a refractor with an aperture of 3 inches or less or a ref ...
And so are many asteroids and comets. Dozens of asteroids reach 11th magnitude or brighter during opposition, putting them withi ...
WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 59 Gazing at this ordinary-looking star and knowing what’s going on is enough to give an observer goose bumps! ...
NGC 2343 NGC 2335 NGC 2353 NGC 2346 NGC 2324 b _ c MONOCEROS Procyon M50 NGC 2506 Spend some time observing the Unicorn’s wonder ...
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