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Balancing eggs on the spring equinox

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Drew Hamilton

It is a popular myth that the spring equinox is the one day of the year that raw eggs can be perfectly balanced on end. When I was in elementary school, entire classes at my school would go outside with a bunch of eggs and try to balance them in a row. More often than… Continue reading →

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Sky and Telescope

Posted on January 27, 2014 by karapetros

Sky and Telescope This website is very cool!  It shows an easy to understand layout of what planets, stars, etc. you will be viewing in the night sky and where they will be moving throughout the night and week.  It also gives you categories of different celestial objects you can try to search for in … Continue reading Sky and Telescope → Continue reading →

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A great App!

Posted on January 27, 2014 by reidrcreviston

After I started taking Astronomy 201 I started to get curious about what stars I was seeing at night and if they were actually planets or not.  Since I live on campus I don’t have a telescope to look closely at the sky so I wasn’t sure how I could observe and learn more.  Then […] Continue reading →

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Lunar Eclipses Explained

Posted on January 27, 2014 by joshkip

After reading chapter 2 of our textbook, one of things that surprised me was the distinction between solar and lunar eclipses, and how – on an everyday basis – we seem to use the term “eclipse” only when it refers … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Before Telescopes and Stuff

Posted on January 27, 2014 by ilman

Today, we know a lot about the stuff out there: stars, galaxies, supernovae, black holes, and such. We probably know more about outer space than our own ocean depths. We owe most of the knowledge to the technologies developed through centuries after centuries of hard work and perseverance. Various observatories on mountains, the Hubble Space […] Continue reading →

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Technology that Helps

Posted on January 27, 2014 by blankster22

While simply looking up at the night sky is an enjoyable experience on its own, sometimes it can tremendously add to the experience to know what you’re looking up at. I’ve come across a few programs that I think are awesome for doing just this. The first is Stellarium. This program is incredible. It allows […] Continue reading →

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Observing the Sky: Star Parties

Posted on January 27, 2014 by eschellhase

“The tires crunched on the gravelly road. ‘How do I know where it is?’ said Mrs. Kelly. ‘It’s so dark.’ ‘Look for the red lights,’ said Mi-Su. . . . Up ahead–spots of red. ‘Lights out,’ said Mi-Su. The headlights went out. Only the red spots were visible now. Some moving, some still. ‘Back at […] Continue reading →

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Stellarium

Posted on January 27, 2014 by mariah0407

Learning about and using Stellarium has been great fun! I have always enjoyed looking at the stars.  As a child, I used to go to the planetarium numerous times a year.  Additionally, one year for my birthday, my brother got me a star through the International Star Registry.  Now that I have learned how to […] Continue reading →

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The Night Sky:Sentinel Paranal:VLT Timelapse

Posted on January 27, 2014 by zkorman

If only we could choose to speed up time, lay on our backs and watch the universe revolve around us…. okay, we’re rotating within a nearly static (relative to us) universe, but the effect remains the same. We can only really appreciate our night sky when we point our cameras and telescopes up to the … Continue reading The Night Sky:Sentinel Paranal:VLT Timelapse → Continue reading →

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Hybrid Solar Eclipse

Posted on January 27, 2014 by hughavanheesewijk

Eclipses can be very beautiful things. We can all go online and look up images of solar eclipses taken from Earth. You can either see a total solar eclipse, where the sun in completely covered by the moon, or an annular where the sun is only partially covered by the moon because the moon is […] Continue reading →

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