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News Throughout the Net
Updated Weekly
Close Encounter with Mars - The Red Planet makes its nearest approach to Earth in 1999 this week and next - Space Science News, April 23, 1999.
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A Closer Look at Io - Hubble Clicks Images of Io Sweeping Across Jupiter - Space Science News, April 20, 1999.
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A Family of Giants - First System of Multiple Planets Found around a Sun like Star - ABC News, April 15, 1999.
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Impact - 40-Year Asteroid Warning - ABC News, April 14, 1999.
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Hubble Spots Most Distant Galaxy - ABC News, April 14, 1999.
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Astronomers detect new types of black holes - CNN News, April 13, 1999.
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Star Dance - ABC News, April 7, 1999.
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Hubble views aging stars in cluster - CNN News, April 2, 1999.
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Huge springtime storms hit the planet Uranus - ABC News, March 30, 1999.
April Skies
Current Phase
of the Moon
April 01 - Full Moon
April 06 - Last Quarter
April 16 - New Moon
April 20 - First Quarter
April 30 - Full Moon
Meteor Showers
Lyrids
Duration - April 16-25
Maximum -- April 22 8:00am PST
Astronomy Magazine - The Sky Show in April.
Sky & Telescope - April 1999.
Product Review
Obsession Telescopes.
When you visit the Obsession Telescope web site be sure to view the "Can your scope do this?M-13 Comparison". This is an excellent page that shows you what you can see through different size telescopes.
Obsession Telescopes are truly the best. They are an amateur astronomers dream. Prices start at $3,195 to $12,995. That is the only reason I do not own one. But, it is still a dream. You can visit this web site and dream too.
Bradford Robotic Telescope
The Bradford Robotic Telescope is a 46 cm telescope located in the moors in West Yorkshire, England. Amateur Astronomers can register, for free, to use and view pictures taken by the telescope. Once the user is registered you can ask the telescope to look at anything in the northern night sky. Making the requests are simple. You can request a picture of a planet, a NGC or Messier Object, or give the RA and DEC Coordinates.
Before it gets dark each night a scheduler looks through all the incoming jobs and decides which ones to try that night. The scheduler takes account of how long you have been waiting, if the object is visible that night, and your priority level.
These jobs are automatically sent to the telescope and are placed in the "scheduled" queue. The telescope has its own scheduler that performs the observations throughout the night. At the end of the night all completed jobs are collected and made available (the "finished" queue) and users are sent Email informing them their job is complete.
There is no human interaction between a user pressing the "Submit" button to ask for a job and receiving the results back.
My complements to Bradford Robotic Telescope Observatory site. They have combined Astronomy, the Internet, and technology in a way that allows Amateur Astronomers to make use of quality equipment.
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