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  • Ultimate eclipse photo: The film has been developed

    In the last of his posts about photographing the eclipse, Dan Falk compares his analogue and digital images. But which does he think is best?

  • See Jupiter and the Moon: 6 Degrees of Separation

    For many weeks, the planet that has dominated our evening sky has been brilliant Venus, visible low in the west-southwest sky for about 90 minutes after sunset. But after Venus sets, it is Jupiter that takes over for the rest of the night, outshining everything in the night sky but the moon. 

  • Astrophotography Spotlight – Centaurus A

    "I'm on rhe outside… I'm lookin' in." And just who are we looking in at this time? None other than the familiar face of Centaurus A.. The stunning, turbulent dust lane is cloaked in the ethereal mist of living galaxy stuff – the result of a gravitationally hungry elliptical galaxy drawing a smaller companion spiral [...]

  • 'Dog Days' of Summer Have Celestial Origin

    The "dog days" of summer officially came to an end this week, but few people know what the expression really means. The phrase actually has a celestial origin.

  • Living in a Technicolor Universe

    An urban legend has developed over the years that the colors in modern astronomical photos are made up in a paint-by-numbers game by publicity-hungry astronomers.

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