Martian moons at the Red Planet’s closest approach
Mars is closest to Earth for this apparition on October 6, so now is the time to seek out its tiny moons.
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Venus’s close encounter with Regulus, October 2/3
Don’t miss dazzling planet Venus at dawn in the eastern sky as it skims by Leo’s brightest star.
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Gordon Ernest Taylor (1925–2020)
The Association lost a senior figure with the death of Gordon Taylor on 2020 Mar 15 at the age of
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A brief primer on filters
Everywhere in observational astronomy, there are filters. I cannot tell you all about them in a short article, as there
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