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Sportsmen Since 1968

Bob Drieslein

Star Watch: Tips for photographing the night sky

The dazzling variety of new and improved camera equipment available to amateur astronomers is making astrophotography one of America’s fastest-growing hobbies. With just a digital camera or a small telescope with a smart phone attachment, you can snap pictures today that were once only in the realm of professional photographers.

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Star Watch: Spica, a binary star

Scientists tell us that the 16th brightest star in our night sky is a “Binary”consisting of two separate stars close together and orbiting rapidly around each other. “Close together” is actually about 12 million miles, but that’s like next door when you’re talking about distances between stars in space.

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Star Watch: Finding Sagittarius, an archer or teapot?

If you have a good imagination and are willing to stay up late some nights during July or August until the skies get good and dark, you may find a “teapot” above the southeastern horizon. This familiar-shaped object is part of a group of stars that make up the constellation Sagittarius.
Sagittarius means “archer” in Latin. This is what the ancient astronomers saw when they viewed this group of 20 or so stars.

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Star Watch: Arcturus and Bootes

It’s almost summer, and you’ll have to stay up later now for skies to darken enough to see these celestial features, but trust me, it’ll be worth it!
If you follow the arc from the handle of the Big Dipper, you come to a bright star, Arcturus, by far the most prominent feature in the constellation Bootes, the “herdsman” according to Greek mythology.

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Star Watch: Famous astronomers (and an eclipse recap)

Aristotle (384-322 BC) and other early Greek astronomers thought that the Earth was stationary and at the center of the universe with the Sun and other planets rotating around it. Historians tell us that this so-called “geocentric” or earth-centered view of the universe was accepted as fact for over 1,500 years!

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Star Watch: Interesting facts about Mars, the Red Planet

We can only wonder if Mars’ menacing, red color may have prompted the ancient Greeks to name it after their God of War. Actually, scientists tell us that the planet’s red color is due to the presence of iron oxide, silicon, and sulfur in its dusty surface layers.

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Star Watch: Turkey hunting and the morning sky

As turkey hunting takes center stage among Outdoor News readers in coming weeks, there are several interesting things to see in the early morning sky.
When the birds aren’t gobbling, or haven’t started yet, here are some celestial features you might want to view during the last two weeks of April 2024.

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