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16 relations: Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Amateur astronomy, American Association of Variable Star Observers, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Australia, Binary star, Eclipse, Kamil Hornoch, Mira variable, Naked eye, New South Wales, Nova, R Coronae Borealis, Steve Mandel, Sutherland Astronomical Society, V382 Velorum.
Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The Amateur Achievement Award is one of nine annual astronomical awards managed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
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Amateur astronomy
Amateur astronomy is a hobby whose participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes.
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American Association of Variable Star Observers
Since its founding in 1911, the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) has coordinated, collected, evaluated, analyzed, published, and archived variable star observations made largely by amateur astronomers and makes the records available to professional astronomers, researchers, and educators.
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is an American scientific and educational organization, founded in San Francisco on February 7, 1889.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Binary star
A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common barycenter.
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Eclipse
An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object is temporarily obscured, either by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer.
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Kamil Hornoch
Kamil Hornoch (born 5 December 1972) is a Czech amateur astronomer who discovered dozens of novae in nearby galaxies.
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Mira variable
Mira variables ("Mira", Latin, adj. - feminine form of adjective "wonderful"), named for the prototype star Mira, are a class of pulsating variable stars characterized by very red colours, pulsation periods longer than 100 days, and amplitudes greater than one magnitude in infrared and 2.5 magnitude at visual wavelengths.
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Naked eye
Naked eye, also called bare eye or unaided eye, is the practice of engaging in visual perception unaided by a magnifying or light-collecting optical instrument, such as a telescope or microscope.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nova
A nova (plural novae or novas) or classical nova (CN, plural CNe) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star, that slowly fades over several weeks or many months.
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R Coronae Borealis
R Coronae Borealis is a peculiar low-mass yellow supergiant star in the constellation of Corona Borealis.
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Steve Mandel
Steve Mandel is an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer.
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Sutherland Astronomical Society
Sutherland Astronomical Society Incorporated (SASI) (previously known as the James Cook Astronomers Club) is an amateur astronomical society based in the Sutherland Shire, in the southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
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V382 Velorum
V382 Velorum was a bright nova, which occurred in 1999 in the southern constellation Vela.
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