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Astronomy Briefly

brought to you by Duane Dunkerson

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Your Handle On The Night Sky by Daniel E. Pope, 2011. Fun and awe. reviewed by Duane Dunkerson
Gravitational Waves: The Shadow Ghosts of Science Berkeley and Newton/G waves and spacetime/ J. Weber and LIGO/memory and concepts by Duane Dunkerson


Notes and Comments on *Quantum* by M. Kumar Dedicated to quantum cosmologists, wherever you may be by Duane Dunkerson

Circumpolar North A fantasy ruined by what rain won't let me see. by Duane Dunkerson .

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 .

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Here and There
Big Meteor Blast Above Russia (Sky and Telescope)
Shock wave smashes windows. Over one thousand people injured, mostly by flying glass. The meteor was 54 ft. across and weighed 10,000 tons.
Hubble Telescope Does Another Deep Field View (BBC)
This time it is an eXtremely deep view. It shows 5,500 galaxies in a very small area of Fornax. It took 2 million seconds of exposure to show galaxies only 450 million years after the Big Bang.
KELT Discovers Two Extrasolar Planets (Sky and Telescope)
OSU astronomers using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope found the planets with a digital camera lens. One of the planets gets around its star in 29 hours. The planet also gets 6000X the radiation the Earth does from the Sun.

Amateurs Observe Impact Flare on Jupiter (Scientific American)
Jupiter can now be monitored nearly continuously by amateurs.
Amateur Astronomer Does Albedo Map of Ganymede (space.com)
Emmanuel I. Kardasis, using a regular scope, camera, software and superior observing skills, obtained a significant contribution.



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