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The Messier Album by John H. Mallas and Evered Kreimer and The Next Step:Finding and Viewing Messier's Objects by Ken Graun a book comparison by Duane Dunkerson
A Celestron GOTO Mount - The Missing User's Notes with Astrotime Not Quite Redux by Duane Dunkerson


Shades of Gray by Duane Dunkerson Power outage for matter and energy.
Stonehenge: Lunar and Solar Anonymity in Three Stages by Duane Dunkerson
Mythic ruins in pious decay.. .

Smart Hay by Duane Dunkerson Persnit answered some questions from the aliens. Then we all did. .

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Here and There
Comet Holmes Has Been A Stunning Sight (Sky and Telescope)
The comet brightened by a factor of one million. Suddenly it went from mag 17 to mag 2.5. Naked eye observations or binoculars gave fascinating views. It had erupted before in November 1892.
Very Energetic Cosmic Rays are from Active Galactic Nuclei (EurekaAlert)
Supermassive black holes put out these cosmic "rays". The rays (particles) are being studied at Pampa Amarilla, Argentina. The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory is located on this pampa.
U of WA Undergrads Find 1,300 Asteroids (UofWA)
At first the undergraduates were looking for supernovas. Then Amy Rose, Amber Almy, Amanjot Singh, Kenza Sigrid Arraki, and Kathyrn Smith discovered that asteroids kept getting in the way.

Jovian Van Allen Belts (British Antarctic Survey)
It could be that the magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter are much alike - more so than previously thought.
Help Needed to Identify the Objects in the Galaxy Zoo (BBC)
One million images of galaxies need to be classified. The Galaxy Zoo Project asks the public to visit its website and ID the Galaxies. You can do better than a computer at the pattern recognition required.



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