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• todays sun

  Here’s a very quick image of today’s sun. I took it using the 80 mm f/6.25 Apogee refractor and a Cannon EOS rebel XS. cheers, Gary
• More Arp Galaxies

  And still taking images of Arp’s Peculiar Galaxies for the Astronomical League program, I’ll post a few recent ones. These are taken at Farpoint Observatory with the 27″ “Tombaugh” reflector. Arp 120 (above) is a seriously disturbed galaxy pair, with an amazingly distorted trails of stars. Those small dark patches in the star trails are [...]
• SN in M95

  Here’s an image of a recent supernova in the constellation Leo. M95′s ‘new’ star was spotted March 16th by Paolo Fagotti of Italy. I’ve marked its position in the image I took Mar 22. I estimated the magnitude at 13.2 R.
• video: Minor Planet discoveries

  Recommended: a time-lapse video of minor planets (asteroids) as they are discovered over the past 30 years or so. This new one is updated to mid-2011. Watch it in the highest resolution your PC will allow. Now, here’s the link!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUSP23cmAE Turn off the music if you don’t care for it. This video compresses 30 [...]

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