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Aurora Alert!
If you're on the ^West Coast or any of the shaded color areas you have an excellent chance of seeing auroras tonight! Sept 14th/15th across the Upper USA and Canada! Good luck! This is a strong G3 event!
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Waxing Moon and Moon Feature Facts!
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99% Illumination. Tonight we will see the moon eclipsed by Earth! I cannot wait to see it through my telescope!
* Clear Skies
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#astronomy
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#gibbousmoon
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90.1% Gibbous Waxing Moon Illumination
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The waxing crescent moon tonight offers only 2-4% illumination. Such a tiny sliver to be viewed.
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#waxingmoon
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The Sun being viewed through a Dobsonian Telescope looks like a bright orange ball with small black flecks denoting sun spots. Hope you enjoy!
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I think I have them listed correctly?! Please note this picture is not properly flipped.
Jupiter and Five Largest Moons through Dobsonian 10 Skywatcher.
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Jupiter and her five moons through Dob 10, Skywatcher.
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Blue filter Supermoon
#bluemoon
#supermoon
#astrophotography
#astronomypictures
Picture taken Aug 30, 2023 by Robin Swaneck
Dobsonian 10 IN
Columbus OH with Galaxy Phone. -
Arp 220 is an ultra-luminous infrared #galaxy (ULIRG) that emits 300 times more light than the #MilkyWay. It also happens to glow brightest in infrared light, Webb's specialty.
Source: #NASA
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The Sombrero Galaxy is a peculiar #galaxy of unclear classification in the constellation borders of #Virgo and #Corvus, being about 9.55 megaparsecs from the Milky Way galaxy.
Stars: 100 billion
Coordinates: RA 12h 39m 59s | Dec -11° 37′ 23″
Apparent mass: ~0.0000008 billion M☉
Age: 13.25 billion years
Distance to Earth: 29.35 million light years
Radius: 25,000 light years
Magnitude: 8#astronomy #astronomyfact #astronomypictureoftheday #astronomypictures #astronomyisfun #milkyway
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Close up of #Pluto from the #NewHorizons space probe
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