Focus on Saturn this month In July, we have our coldest nights, however with the cold comes the clear. The frosty weather provides us with the clearest skies of any time of the year, which allows us a chance to see objects in the night sky with clarity, both near and
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Chart (9pm on the 15th May) produced using the Stellarium software package Three planets feature this month May provides us with progressively longer nights and cooling weather, and the bright stars of summer start to disappear towards the west after sunset. The more sparse skies of autumn replace them in the east,
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February great month for viewing bright stars
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Origin of the Moon
Star Search with Dr David Weldrake November nights are warm and growing shorter, with the stars of winter setting in the west. The bright stars of summer are beginning to appear, reminding us that hot dry weather is just around the corner. Bright stars are few and far between in November, but include
The strange star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure
Extract from the Washington Post article. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/15/the-strange-star-that-has-serious-scientists-talking-about-an-alien-megastructure/ “It was kind of unbelievable that it was real data,” said Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. “We were scratching our heads. For any idea that came up there was always something that would argue against it.” She was talking to the New Scientist about KIC 8462852, a distant star with