Public Sky Observing 2024 plan
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Frontenac Summer
On Saturday, July 29, a long-planned astronomical observation took place in Frontenac State Park. Fortunately, the weather was nice and clear. People can especially enjoy walking the various trails in…
Supernova in M101
Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki on May 18 2023 discovered supernova in the Galaxy M101 Pinwheel. Supernova was designated with name SN 2023ixf and it is about 21 million light years…
March Northern lights
On the evening of March 23, NOAA predicted increased auroral activity in the auroral ring over Greenland and Canada. This activity was expected to affect Minnesota at a lower intensity….
Astronomy League Carbon stars list
Table based on AstroLeague.org observing program Carbon Stars file CarbonStarList3.pdf. # Name RA DEC Mag. Per Con Type Cat HIP Desig HD Desig 1 WZ Cas 00 01 15 +60…
Astronomy League Double stars list
Table based on AstroLeague.org observing program Double Stars file DS-MasterObjectList2021.pdf # Name RA DEC Mag Sep Pos. Angle Last WDS measure 1 Eta Cassiopeiae 00h 49m.1 +57° 49′ 3.5, 7.4 13.4″ 326°…
40 Eridani B
Robert Fealey published on October 21st on forum post including beautiful picture above: https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/observing-tonight/page/167/#post-13989 The December Sky and Telescope mag motivated me to get out early this morning and see…
Sirius B
On the 7th annual Star_BQ Sunday morning October 26, 2014 Dean Johnson had an idea to look at Sirius B. At first I didn’t understand what Dean was talking about,…
Carbon star V Aql
V Aquilae (V Aql) is a carbon star and semiregular variable star in the constellation Aquila. It has an apparent magnitude which varies between 6.6 and 8.4 and is located…
Sky moments
On December 6th 2021 evening there was a beautiful conjunction of the 3.1 days old Moon and Venus in Sagittarius above South West horizon. There is a star h2 Sgr…