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Re: Mercury and Venus.
David Baines
Hi All, I hope everyone is keeping well. I followed Peter's advice and went out this evening to see if I could spot Mercury.I managed to find it using binoculars at first then as the sky darkened I was able to see it with the naked eye. My wife had just gone to bed but I persuaded her to come out into the back garden to have a look and she had no problems spotting Mercury once I had given rough directions. All the best, David
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Mercury and Venus.
Peter sent this...
Hope you are keeping well and enjoying some decent dark skies
albeit short at this time of year.
Comet SWAN should be appearing low in the NE dawn sky
so I may be tempted to arise early.
A
reminder to members.
If you have never seen Mercury the next few evenings
present an excellent opportunity to spot this elusive
innermost planet as it has a close conjunction with Venus in
the W to NW evening twilight.
This evening (19th) Mercury will be about 5 degrees below
Venus.
The separation will be about 1 1/2 degrees on 21st and 22nd
so both planets will appear it the same field of view using
binoculars or low power on a telescope.
Using higher magnification on a telescope note the
different phases of the two planets. Ask yourself why.
Reasonable weather forecast except for the 22nd.
Happy viewing and imaging!
Peter.
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Venus
Thought I'd better get a quick image in before Venus sets behind my trees and the weather looks poor for the next few days. Very hazy skies I'm afraid.
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Space News for April...(2 versions +...)
Michael Held
Hello everyone, I have put my Space News for April up on the website. There are 2 versions - PowerPoint and 'PDF'. The pdf file is a smaller download - but cannot include any video or animations. So choose which you prefer. Alternatively, if you're really bored and would like to look up all the original webpages and details, I can email you a file with all the links that I collected over the month... Let me know if so. Best wishes - keep looking up (in both senses), Michael
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Club night CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Tue, 05/05/2020
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Re: CAA talk on The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
I'm working on it.
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I have subscribed to the CAA , at £4 annually. I hope to be able to get into their archives, etc. No news yet, but I'll keep you posted. Adrian -----------------------------------------------------
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Re: CAA talk on The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
chiaki.crews@...
Hi, Any idea how we can get the password to attend this talk on Zoom? I can't see an email address to contact the association...
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Upcoming Event: Club night CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Tue, 05/05/2020 7:30pm-8:30pm
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CAA talk on The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Cambridge Astronomy Association are putting on a lecture using ZOOM this coming Monday 4th May, 7:15pm.
The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram The HR diagram has been in use for over a hundred years and is an important graphical tool that astronomers use to classify stars according to their luminosity, spectral type, color, temperature and evolutionary stage. But it's much much more than a series of dots on a graph and has helped unlock many secrets of the life of stars. http://www.caa-cya.org/event_details.php?name=2020_05_CYABZ.txt&evdate=Monday%204th%20May%202020&evtime=19:15&evtype=CYA%2011%2B%20by%20Zoom&evspeaker=CAA&evtitle=The%20HR%20Diagram&evimg=graphics%2Fhrdiagram.jpg&evbio=speakers%2Fcaa.txt -- Adrian _______________________________________________ Secretary, Open University Astronomy Club ouastro.co.uk
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Peter's photos of Venus and the crescent Moon
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Moon
The crescent Moon is great for imaging at the moment. I have just uploaded the latest Historical Section Newsletter. It's a great read.
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Share 'Our Pride' this St George's Day
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Lyrids
Friends from Pembrokeshire saw several Lyrids last night, they were very impressed. Peak on Wednesday morning but probably worth a look tonight. 10 per hour but a very reliable meteor stream going back to
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