August 2024
- Focal Plane (26)
- One Good Target (31)
- Rick's Picks (32)
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August 2024 Focal Plane Wormholes, Spacewarps, and Tunnels to Otherwheres
At one time, some of Einstein’s theories of space-time and general relativity have exotic subjects within the solutions of the equations, such as wormholes.…
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Astronomy Fundamentals: Finding Good Targets in Twilight
Many times, we are at the telescope waiting for the sky to get darker. The Sun had set about a half hour to go,…
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A Dark Nebula in Aquila (Barnard’s E)
August 2024 · With side trips to a couple binocular doubles, a pretty yellow and blue pair, and an easy-to-find carbon star
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August ’24 – Rick’s Picks
All month: the planets continue their slow and hesitant return to the evening sky this month. As August opens, Mercury is a mag +0.9…