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A Sidewalk Astronomer
A Sidewalk Astronomer is a 2005 documentary film about former Vedanta monk and amateur astronomer John Dobson.
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Agora (film)
Agora (Ágora) is a 2009 Spanish English-language historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.
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Airy disk
In optics, the Airy disk (or Airy disc) and Airy pattern are descriptions of the best focused spot of light that a perfect lens with a circular aperture can make, limited by the diffraction of light.
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Akaa Solar System Scale Model
Akaa Solar System Scale Model is located at the center of the city of Akaa, Finland.
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Alamo Lake State Park
Alamo Lake State Park is a state park of Arizona, USA, centered on Alamo Lake, a flood control and recreational reservoir.
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Albedo feature
An albedo feature is a large area on the surface of a planet (or other solar system body) which shows a contrast in brightness or darkness (albedo) with adjacent areas.
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Albert F. A. L. Jones
Albert Francis Arthur Lofley Jones (9 August 1920 – 11 September 2013) was a New Zealand amateur astronomer, and a prolific variable star and comet observer, a member of the Variable Star Section and the Comet Section of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand.
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Albert Graham Ingalls
Albert Graham Ingalls (January 16, 1888–August 13, 1958) was an American scientific editor and amateur astronomer.
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Aldershot Observatory
Aldershot observatory is a circular red-brick building with a domed roof standing on Queens Avenue in Aldershot Military Town near Aldershot, England, home to the British Army since circa 1854.
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Aldo Di Clemente
Aldo Di Clemente (born 1948) is an Italian amateur astronomer (active 1996–1997).
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Alexander Gromov
Alexander Nikolayevich Gromov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Грóмов) is a Russian science fiction writer, who began writing in 1986 and was first published in the early 1990s.
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Alpine Astrovillage Lü-Stailas
Alpine Astrovillage (AAV) is a center for astrophotography and stargazing in the eastern Swiss Alps, high above the valley floor of the Val Müstair in the canton Graubünden.
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Alvan Clark & Sons
Alvan Clark & Sons was an American maker of optics that became famous for crafting lenses for some of the largest refracting telescopes of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Amateur
An amateur (French amateur "lover of", from Old French and ultimately from Latin amatorem nom. amator, "lover") is generally considered a person who pursues a particular activity or field of study independently from their source of income.
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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 telescope making
Amateur telescope making is the activity of building telescopes as a hobby, as opposed to being a paid professional.
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Amateur Telescope Making
Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) is a series of three books edited by Albert G. Ingalls between 1926 and 1953 while he was an associate editor at Scientific American.
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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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Andrew Ainslie Common
Andrew Ainslie Common FRS (1841–1903) was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astrophotography.
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Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth, and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist.
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Anthony Wesley
Anthony Wesley (born 1965) is an Australian computer programmer and amateur astronomer, known for his discoveries of the 2009 and 2010 Jupiter impact events.
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Anton Vamplew
Anton Vamplew, (born 6 February 1966, in Rainham, Kent) is an English amateur astronomer, author, lecturer and media presenter of the subject.
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Appulse
Appulse is an astronomical term that refers to the shortest apparent distance between one celestial object and another, as seen from a third body during a given period.
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Arto Oksanen
Arto Oksanen is a Finnish amateur astronomer and observer at the Nyrölä Observatory, located about 20 kilometers from the city of Jyväskylä in Finland.
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Asociación Argentina "Amigos de la Astronomía"
The Asociación Argentina Amigos de la Astronomía (A.A.A.A., asaramas) is an amateur astronomy civil association based on Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the aim of spreading astronomy.
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Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO or A.L.P.O.) is an international scientific and educational organization established in March, 1947 in the United States by Walter H. Haas, and later incorporated in 1990.
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Astrograph
An astrograph (astrographic camera) is a telescope designed for the sole purpose of astrophotography.
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Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.
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Astronomical filter
An astronomical filter is a telescope accessory consisting of an optical filter used by amateur astronomers to simply enhance the details of celestial objects (much as with amateur photography).
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Astronomical League
The Astronomical League is an umbrella organization of amateur astronomy societies.
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Astronomical Society of Australia
The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) is the professional body representing astronomers in Australia.
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Astronomical Society of New South Wales
The Astronomical Society of New South Wales (ASNSW) is an amateur astronomy club in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Astronomical Society of Victoria
The Astronomical Society of Victoria (ASV) is an amateur astronomy club in the state of Victoria, Australia.
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Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković
Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković (Astronomsko društvo Ruđer Bošković) is an astronomical society in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Astronomy
Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.
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Astronomy (magazine)
Astronomy is a monthly American magazine about astronomy.
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Astronomy Day
Astronomy Day is an annual event in the United States - and later in other countries, like in Hungary - intended to provide a means of interaction between the general public and various astronomy enthusiasts, groups and professionals.
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Astronomy in Serbia
Astronomy in Serbia is developed in accordance with the country's economic capabilities, or even slightly above them.
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Astronomy North
Astronomy North is a Canadian astronomical society for auroras.
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Astronomy Now
Astronomy Now is a monthly British magazine on astronomy and space.
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Astrophotography
Astrophotography is a specialized type of photography for recording photos of astronomical objects, celestial events, and areas of the night sky.
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Axel Firsoff
Valdemar Axel Firsoff FRAS was known principally as an amateur astronomer.
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Babak Amin Tafreshi
Babak Amin Tafreshi (born in 1978 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian photographer, science journalist, and amateur astronomer.
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Ben Mayer
Ben Mayer (born 1925 in Germany – 28 Dec 1999) was an amateur astronomer perhaps best known for the invention of the projection blink comparator (PROBLICOM), a low-cost version of the blink comparator.
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Benoit Schillings
Benoit Schillings is a Belgian software engineer, who is a distinguished engineer at Google.
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Beta Pictoris
Beta Pictoris (β Pic, β Pictoris) is the second brightest star in the constellation Pictor.
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Beta Ursae Minoris
Beta Ursae Minoris (β Ursae Minoris, abbreviated Beta UMi, β UMi), also named Kochab, is the brightest star in the bowl of the Little Dipper asterism (which is part of the constellation of Ursa Minor), and only slightly fainter than Polaris, the northern pole star and brightest star in Ursa Minor.
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Binoculars
Binoculars or field glasses are two telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes (binocular vision) when viewing distant objects.
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Binoviewer
A binoviewer is an optical device designed to enable binocular viewing through a single objective.
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Black Eye Galaxy
The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Evil Eye Galaxy; designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) is a galaxy which was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier in 1780.
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Blink comparator
A blink comparator was a viewing apparatus used by astronomers to find differences between two photographs of the night sky.
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Bloomfield Lodge
Bloomfield Lodge, formerly known as Peppers Bloomfield Lodge, is a boutique rainforest lodge set between the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Bob P. King
Robert P. King (known professionally as Astrobob), born, is an American photographer, writer, and an amateur astronomer.
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Boeing X-37
The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable uncrewed spacecraft.
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Bortle scale
The Bortle scale is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky's brightness of a particular location.
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Boyden Observatory
Boyden Observatory is an astronomical research observatory and science education centre located in Maselspoort, north-east of the city of Bloemfontein in Free State, South Africa.
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British Astronomical Association
The British Astronomical Association (BAA) was formed in 1890 as a national body to support the UK's amateur astronomers.
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Bruneau Dunes State Park
Bruneau Dunes State Park is a state park of Idaho, USA, featuring several large sand dunes and two small lakes.The park is located south of Mountain Home, Idaho, outside Bruneau.
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C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is an Oort cloud comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)
Comet Lovejoy, formally designated C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), is a long-period comet and Kreutz Sungrazer.
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Caldwell catalogue
The Caldwell Catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers.
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Calendar (stationery)
A calendar is used to display dates and related information, usually in a table format.
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Cat's Eye Nebula
The Cat's Eye Nebula or NGC 6543, is a relatively bright planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786.
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Catadioptric system
A catadioptric optical system is one where refraction and reflection are combined in an optical system, usually via lenses (dioptrics) and curved mirrors (catoptrics).
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Cederberg
The Cederberg mountains (Sederberg) and nature reserve are located near Clanwilliam, approximately 300 km north of Cape Town, South Africa at about.
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Cedric Allingham
Cedric Allingham (born June 27, 1922) is a fictional British writer reputed in the 1954 book Flying Saucer from Mars to have encountered the pilot of a Martian spacecraft.
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Celestial cartography
Celestial cartography, uranography, astrography or star cartography is the fringe of astronomy and branch of cartography concerned with mapping stars, galaxies, and other astronomical objects on the celestial sphere.
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Celestron
Celestron is a company based in Torrance, California, USA that manufactures telescopes and distributes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, and accessories manufactured by its parent company, the Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan.
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Charles Messier
Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
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Charles Munnerlyn
Charles Munnerlyn (* 1940 in Shreveport, LA) is an American optical engineer.
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Cherry Springs Airport
Cherry Springs Airport was a small general aviation airport which operated between 1935 and 2007 in Potter County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
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Cherry Springs State Park
Cherry Springs State Park is an Pennsylvania state park in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Chom Dong
Chom Dong is a private estate and botanical garden near Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand.
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Churt
Churt is a village and civil parish in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England.
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Citizen science
Citizen science (CS; also known as community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, volunteer monitoring, or networked science) is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur (or nonprofessional) scientists.
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Clear Sky Chart
Clear Sky Charts (called clocks until 2008-02-29) are web graphics which deliver weather forecasts designed specifically for astronomers.
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Clinton B. Ford
Clinton B. Ford (March 1, 1913 – September 23, 1992), aged 79, was an American investor, musician and amateur astronomer specializing in the observation of variable stars.
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College of Idaho
The College of Idaho (C of I) is a private, residential liberal arts college in the western United States, located in Caldwell, Idaho. Founded in 1891, it is the state's oldest private liberal arts college, with an enrollment of 1,140 students. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The C of I has produced seven Rhodes Scholars, three governors and four NFL players. Its PEAK Curriculum allows students to study in the four knowledge areas of humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and a professional field, enabling them to earn a major and three minors in four years. For sixteen years, from November 1991 until October 2007, the C of I was known as Albertson College of Idaho.
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Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.
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Comet ISON
Comet ISON, formally known as C/2012 S1, was a sungrazing comet discovered on 21 September 2012 by Vitaly Nevsky (Виталий Невский, Vitebsk, Belarus) and Artyom Novichonok (Артём Новичонок, Kondopoga, Russia).
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Commission for Dark Skies
The Commission for Dark Skies (CfDS) (formerly the Campaign for Dark Skies; the name was changed on March 29, 2015) is the United Kingdom's largest anti-light-pollution campaign group forming part of the international dark-sky movement.
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Confederation of Indian Amateur Astronomers
The Confederation of Indian Amateur Astronomers (CIAA) is a national level organisation of amateur astronomers in India that convenes a national meeting of members every year, and coordinates the activities of amateur astronomers throughout the country.
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Crayford focuser
The Crayford focuser is a simplified focusing mechanism for amateur astronomical telescopes.
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Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services.
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Cuno Hoffmeister
Cuno Hoffmeister (2 February 1892 – 2 January 1968) was a German astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory.
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Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California—Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada.
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Deep-sky object
Deep-sky object (abbreviated as DSO) is a term designating any astronomical object that is not an individual star or Solar System object (such as Sun, Moon, planet, comet, etc.). The classification is used for the most part by amateur astronomers to denote visually observed faint naked eye and telescopic objects such as star clusters, nebulae and galaxies.
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Deep-Sky Planner
Deep-Sky Planner is observation planning and logging software for amateur astronomers.
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Delphinus
Delphinus (Eng. U.S.) Eng.
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Diffraction spike
Diffraction spikes are lines radiating from bright light sources in photographs and in vision.
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Discoveries of exoplanets
An exoplanet (extrasolar planet) is a planet located outside the Solar System.
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Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Максу́тов) (– 12 August 1964) was a Russian / Soviet optical engineer and amateur astronomer.
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Dobson (surname)
Dobson is an English and Scottish surname.
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Dobsonian telescope
A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson starting in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers.
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Doi Suthep–Pui National Park
Doi Suthep–Pui National Park is a national park in Chiang Mai Province in Thailand.
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Donald C. Parker
Donald C. Parker, also known as Don Parker (January 28, 1939 – February 22, 2015), was an American retired physician and amateur astronomer, specializing in the research of the Solar System and planetary photography.
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Dual speed focuser
The Dual speed focuser is a focusing mechanism used in precision optics such as advanced amateur astronomical telescopes and laboratory microscopes.
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Dumbbell Nebula
The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, M 27, or NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light-years.
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DuPuis Management Area
DuPuis Management Area is a 21,875 acre protected area in northwestern Palm Beach County, Florida and southwestern Martin County, Florida.
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E. M. Antoniadi
Eugène Michel Antoniadi (1 March 1870 – 10 February 1944) was a Greek astronomer.
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Edward A. Halbach
Edward A. Halbach (April 5, 1909 – March 20, 2011) was an American amateur astronomer and prolific variable star observer.
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Edwin Holmes (astronomer)
Edwin Alfred Holmes (1839–1919) was an English amateur astronomer who is best remembered as the discoverer of Comet 17P/Holmes.
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Equatorial mount
An equatorial mount is a mount for instruments that compensates for Earth's rotation by having one rotational axis parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation.
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Erich Meyer
Erich Meyer (born August 6, 1951) is an Austrian engineer, amateur astronomer and discoverer of asteroids.
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Erwin Obermair
Erwin Obermair (29 August 1946 in Hargelsberg – 15 January 2017 in Linz) was an Austrian amateur astronomer and co-discoverer of asteroids.
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Fair Extension
Fair Extension is a novella by Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars (2010).
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Farnham Astronomical Society
The Farnham Astronomical Society was founded in 1971 by a group of keen local amateur astronomers with the aim of promoting and furthering interest in the night sky and all things astronomy amongst the people of North Hampshire and West Surrey.
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Forest Park (St. Louis)
Forest Park is a public park in western St. Louis, Missouri.
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Frank Bateson
Frank Maine Bateson (31 October 1909 – 16 April 2007) was a New Zealand astronomer who specialized in the study of variable stars.
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Galactic quadrant
A galactic quadrant, or quadrant of the Galaxy, is one of four circular sectors in the division of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Galaxy morphological classification
Galaxy morphological classification is a system used by astronomers to divide galaxies into groups based on their visual appearance.
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Galaxy Zoo
Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies.
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Gale (crater)
Gale is a crater, and probable dry lake, on Mars near the northwestern part of the Aeolis quadrangle at.
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Gao Xing
Gao Xing (born 1974) is a Chinese amateur astronomer from Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
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Gary W. Kronk
Gary W. Kronk (born 1956) is an American amateur astronomer and writer.
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Gérard de Vaucouleurs
Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs (25 April 1918 – 7 October 1995) was a French astronomer.
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Gifford Observatory
The Gifford Observatory is an astronomical observation facility located in Mount Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Gila National Forest
The Gila National Forest is a protected national forest in New Mexico in the southwestern part of the United States established in 1905.
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Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.
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Globe at Night
Globe at Night is an international scientific research program that crowdsources measurements of light pollution in the night sky.
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Goethe Link Observatory
The Goethe Link Observatory, observatory code 760, is an astronomical observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States.
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GoTo (telescopes)
In amateur astronomy, "GoTo" refers to a type of telescope mount and related software that can automatically point a telescope at astronomical objects that the user selects.
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Great Diamond
The Great Diamond is an asterism.
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Gregg Thompson (astronomer)
Gregg D. Thompson of Brisbane, Australia is an amateur astronomer and the executive director of the Dreamtech Designs and Productions company.
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Grote Reber
Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 – December 20, 2002) was a pioneer of radio astronomy, which combined his interests in amateur radio and amateur astronomy.
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Gustav Hahn
Gustav Hahn (27 July 1866 – 1 December 1962) was a German Canadian painter, muralist and interior decorator who pioneered the Art Nouveau style in Canada.
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Haleakalā National Park
Haleakalā National Park is an American national park located on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii.
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Haleets
Haleets (also called Figurehead Rock) is a sandstone glacial erratic boulder with inscribed petroglyphs on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
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HD 149026 b
HD 149026 b, also named Smertrios, is an extrasolar planet approximately 250 light-years from the Sun in the constellation of Hercules.
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HD 160529
HD 160529 (V905 Sco) is a Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) star located in the constellation of Scorpius.
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HD 168607
HD 168607 (V4029 Sgr) is a blue hypergiant and luminous blue variable (LBV) star located in the constellation of Sagittarius, easy to see with amateur telescopes.
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HD 168625
HD 168625 (V4030 Sgr) is a blue hypergiant and candidate luminous blue variable located in the constellation of Sagittarius easy to see with amateur telescopes.
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Hector J. Robinson Observatory
The Hector J. Robinson Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Lincoln Park, Michigan.
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Helen Lines
Helen Lines (died 2001) was an American amateur astronomer.
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Henry Draper
Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 – November 20, 1882) was an American doctor and amateur astronomer.
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Herbert Raab
Herbert Raab (born January 24, 1969 in Linz, Austria) is an Austrian software engineer, amateur astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects.
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Hermann Mucke (astronomer)
Hermann B. W. Mucke (born March 1, 1935 in Vienna) is an Austrian astronomer and one of the most significant promoters of amateur astronomy in German-speaking Europe.
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Hiroshi Abe (astronomer)
is a Japanese amateur astronomer affiliated with the Yatsuka Observatory.
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Homebuilt machines
Homebuilt machines are machines built outside of specialised workshops or factories.
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Hoshizora Kiseki
is a 27-minute Japanese anime directed by Akio Watanabe and Toshikazu Matsubara, and produced by CoMix Wave Films as an original net animation.
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Hubble search for transition comets
Hubble search for transition comets (Transition Comets—UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids) was a study involving amateur astronomers and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Hubble sequence
The Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for galaxies invented by Edwin Hubble in 1926.
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Impact event
An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects.
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Integrated Humanities Program
The Integrated Humanities Program (IHP), also known as the Pearson integrated Humanities Program, was a program at the University of Kansas in the 1970s.
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Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) is an autonomous institution set up by the University Grants Commission to promote nucleation and growth of active groups in astronomy and astrophysics in Indian universities.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.
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Irish Astronomical Society
The Irish Astronomical Society, the oldest astronomy club in Ireland, was founded in D'Olier Street, Dublin on 5 October 1937.
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Isaac Roberts
Isaac Roberts FRS (27 January 1829 – 17 July 1904) was a Welsh engineer and businessman best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae.
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Iso-Heikkilä Observatory
Iso-Heikkilä Observatory (Iso-Heikkilän tähtitorni) is an amateur astronomical observatory used by a local amateur astronomical association, Turun Ursa ry in the Iso-Heikkilä district of Turku, Finland.
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Italian Amateur Astronomers Union
The Italian Amateur Astronomers Union (Unione Astrofili Italiani; UAI) is an Italian organization active in astronomy research and outreach that was founded in 1967.
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Jack B. Newton
John "Jack" Borden Newton (born 13 August 1942, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian astronomer, best known for his publications and images in amateur astrophotography both in film and CCD.
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James Hartness
James Hartness (September 3, 1861 – February 2, 1934) was an American inventor; a mechanical engineer; an entrepreneur who mentored other inventors to develop their machine tool products and create a thriving industrial center in southeastern Vermont; an amateur astronomer who fostered the construction of telescopes by amateurs in his town; an early aviator who built one of Vermont's first airports; and the 58th Governor of Vermont from 1921 to 1923.
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James McMahon (astronomer)
James McMahon is an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his visual observations of asteroid occultations.
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James Randi
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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Janet Akyüz Mattei
Janet Akyüz Mattei (January 2, 1943 – March 22, 2004) was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.
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Jay U. Gunter
June U. Gunter (January 15, 1911 – November 14, 1994), better known as Jay U. Gunter or J. U. Gunter, was an American pathologist and amateur astronomer.
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Jürgen Moser
Jürgen Kurt Moser (July 4, 1928 – December 17, 1999) was an award-winning, German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.
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Jeff T. Alu
Jeffrey (Jeff) Thomas Alu (born January 1, 1966) is an American musician, photographer, graphic artist, and amateur astronomer who has participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey.
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Johann Abraham Ihle
Johann Abraham Ihle (June 14, 1627 – c.1699) was a German amateur astronomer who discovered the first known globular cluster, M22, on August 26, 1665 while observing Saturn in Sagittarius.
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John Daggett Hooker
John Daggett Hooker (1838–1911), was an American ironmaster, amateur scientist and astronomer, and philanthropist who made the initial donations for the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, one of the most famous telescopes in observational astronomy of the 20th century.
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John Dobson (amateur astronomer)
John Lowry Dobson (September 14, 1915 – January 15, 2014) was an amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope.
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John E. Bortle
John E. Bortle is an American amateur astronomer.
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John Ellard Gore
John Ellard Gore (1845–1910) was an Irish amateur astronomer and prolific author, and a founding member of the British Astronomical Association.
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John M. Pierce
John M. Pierce (1886 – March 4, 1958) was an American teacher and amateur astronomer.
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John Mills (entrepreneur)
John Mills (1806 – 1889), entrepreneur and amateur astronomer, was a manufacturer of Linen and twine in the city of Dundee.
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John Wall (inventor)
John Wall (26 June 1932 – 27 January 2018) was an English design engineer, amateur astronomer, amateur telescope maker and member of the British Astronomical Association.
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Jon Culshaw
Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English impressionist and comedian, best known for his work on the radio comedy Dead Ringers since 2000.
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Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California.
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Julien Peridier
Julien Péridier (1882 – April 19, 1967) was a French electrical engineer and amateur astronomer.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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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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Kaoru Ikeya
is a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered a number of comets.
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Karl Ludwig Hencke
Karl Ludwig Hencke (8 April 1793 – 21 September 1866) was a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
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Kaua‘i Educational Association for Science and Astronomy
The Kaua‘i Educational Association for Science and Astronomy (KEASA) is a non-profit educational astronomical organization located in Manoa on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i.
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Kazuro Watanabe
is a Japanese amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets.
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Keehner Park
Keehner Park is a public park located in West Chester, Ohio.
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Kemble's Cascade
Kemble's Cascade (Kemble 1), located in the constellation Camelopardalis, is an asterism — a pattern created by unrelated stars.
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Khagol Mandal
Khagol Mandal is an organization of amateur astronomers in Mumbai, India.
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Khagol Vishwa
Khagol Vishwa (KV) is an organization for amateur astronomers working in Maharashtra, India.
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Kika Silva Pla Planetarium
The Kika Silva Pla Planetarium is a 34-foot in diameter, domed theater that seats 60 people.
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Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari
is a J-pop song by the Japanese band Supercell, written by Ryo.
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Kin Endate
is a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered hundreds of asteroids, most of them in collaboration with Kazuro Watanabe, placing him among the most prolific discoverers of minor planets.
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Kitami Observatory
Kitami Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan.
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Korado Korlević
Korado Korlević (born on 19 September 1958 in Poreč) is a Croatian teacher and prolific amateur astronomer, who ranks among the world's top 20 discoverers of minor planets.
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Kreutz sungrazer
The Kreutz sungrazers (pronounced kroits) are a family of sungrazing comets, characterized by orbits taking them extremely close to the Sun at perihelion.
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Kyle E. Smalley
Kyle E. Smalley is an American amateur astronomer.
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Laser pointer
A laser pointer or laser pen is a small handheld device with a power source (usually a battery) and a laser diode emitting a very narrow coherent low-powered laser beam of visible light, intended to be used to highlight something of interest by illuminating it with a small bright spot of colored light.
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Leonid Elenin
Leonid Vladimirovich Elenin (Леони́д Влади́мирович Еле́нин; born 10 August 1981) is a Russian amateur astronomer working with the ISON-NM observatory (H15) via the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), which is the first Russian remote observatory in the West.
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Leslie Peltier
Leslie Copus Peltier (January 2, 1900 – May 10, 1980) was an American amateur astronomer and discoverer of several comets and novae, once described as "the world's greatest non-professional astronomer" by Harlow Shapley.
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Leviathan of Parsonstown
Leviathan of Parsonstown, or Rosse six-foot telescope, is a historic reflecting telescope of 72 in (1.8 m) aperture, which was the largest telescope in the world from 1845 until the construction of the Hooker Telescope in 1917.
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LightBuckets
LightBuckets is a commercial astronomical observatory formerly located in Rodeo, New Mexico and now located in France, which rents time on its telescopes to customers around the world via a website on the Internet, including amateur and professional astronomers.
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Limiting magnitude
In astronomy, limiting magnitude is the faintest apparent magnitude of a celestial body that is detectable or detected by a given instrument.
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List of agnostics
Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as theologically agnostic.
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List of Arizona state parks
An Arizona state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Arizona preserved by the state for its natural, cultural, or recreational resources.
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List of astronomical observatories
This is a list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and location.
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List of astronomy acronyms
This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in astronomy.
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List of Berenstain Bears books
This list of Berenstain Bears books includes many in the picture book series (such as "Beginner Books" and "First Time Books") and the illustrated children's novels, such as those in the "Big Chapter Books" series.
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List of Canadian plays (P–Z)
Canadian plays have been written since the 19th century, both in English and in French.
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List of CBeebies shows
This is a list of CBeebies shows which are either still airing or expired.
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List of Date A Live characters
The Date A Live light novel and anime series features a diverse cast of characters created by Kōshi Tachibana and designed by Tsunako.
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List of hobbies
This is a partial list of hobbies.
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List of Mad episodes
This is a list of the episodes of Mad, an animated sketch comedy television series inspired by Mad Magazine that aired on Cartoon Network.
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List of Mayo Chiki! chapters
is a Japanese manga series written by Hajime Asano and illustrated by NEET.
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List of planetariums
This entry is a list of permanent planetariums, including software and manufacturers.
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List of Redhill people
Famous people linked with Redhill, Surrey include.
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List of telescope types
The following are lists of devices categorized as types of telescopes or devices associated with telescopes.
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List of Yotsuba&! chapters
Yotsuba&! is a manga written and drawn by Kiyohiko Azuma, and published in Japan by ASCII Media Works in the monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh.
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LOMO
LOMO (Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association) is a manufacturer of medical and motion-picture lenses and equipment based in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Lotz Cisterns
Lotz Cisterns (בורות לוץ,; the spelling Loz is used, too) is an archaeological site in Negev Mountains, Israel, where 17 ancient water cisterns are located.
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LRGB
LRGB, short for Luminance, Red, Green and Blue, is a photographic technique used in amateur astronomy for producing good quality color photographs by combining a high-quality black-and-white image with a lower-quality color image.
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Luciano Tesi
Luciano Tesi (born 10 December 1931) is an Italian veterinarian, amateur astronomer, discoverer of a large number of minor planets, and director of the San Marcello Pistoiese Observatory.
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Luigi Sannino
Luigi Sannino (b. 1981) is an Italian amateur astronomer.
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Lunar observation
The Moon is the largest natural satellite of and the closest major astronomical object to Earth.
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Lynx (constellation)
Lynx is a constellation named after the animal, usually observed in the northern sky.
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Macarthur Astronomical Society
Macarthur Astronomical Society is an organisation of amateur astronomers, based in the Macarthur Region of outer South Western Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, including the local government areas of the City of Campbelltown, Camden Council, Wollondilly Shire, the City of Liverpool and surrounding districts.
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Macarthur Astronomy Forum
Macarthur Astronomy Forum is a monthly public forum organised by Macarthur Astronomical Society, providing leading national and international professional astronomers with a platform to address the Forum on topics of astronomical interest; also providing members of the Society and the general public with opportunities to learn and ask questions.
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Mahned Bridge
The Mahned Bridge was constructed in 1903 and spans the Leaf River in Perry County, Mississippi.
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Makemake
Makemake (minor-planet designation 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and perhaps the largest Kuiper belt object in the classical population, with a diameter approximately two thirds that of Pluto.
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Maksutov telescope
The Maksutov (also called a "Mak") is a catadioptric telescope design that combines a spherical mirror with a weakly negative meniscus lens in a design that takes advantage of all the surfaces being nearly "spherically symmetrical".
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Martin Dies Jr. State Park
Martin Dies Jr.
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Martz Observatory
Martz Observatory is a public, not-for-profit organization devoted to the amateur astronomer.
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Masakatsu Aoki
is a Japanese amateur astronomer who operates from his private Aoki Astronomical Observatory at Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
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Matsuo Sugano
is a Japanese astronomer.
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Maurice du Martheray
Maurice du Martheray (1892 – April 12, 1955) was a Swiss physician, amateur astronomer and poet.
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Maynard Pittendreigh
The Rev.
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McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is a science museum located in Concord, New Hampshire, United States, next door to the NHTI campus.
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Meade ETX telescope
The ETX ("Everybody's Telescope") is a line of smaller aperture telescopes (60mm to 125mm) made by Meade Instruments.
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Messier 81
Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away, in the constellation Ursa Major.
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Messier marathon
A Messier marathon is an attempt, usually organized by amateur astronomers, to find as many Messier objects as possible during one night.
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Messier object
The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects, of which 103 were included in lists published by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771 and 1781.
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Michael Jäger (astronomer)
Michael Jäger (born 1958 in Vienna) is an Austrian editor, amateur astronomer and discoverer of comets.
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Michel Ory
Michel Ory (born 18 April 1966) is a Swiss amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets, who was one of five winners of the 2009 Edgar Wilson Award for his discovery of 304P/Ory (P/2008 Q2 Ory), a periodic comet of the Jupiter family on 27 August 2008, using a 24-inch f/3.9 reflector at the Jura Observatory in Switzerland.
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Michiel Daniel Overbeek
Michiel Daniel Overbeek (15 September 1920 in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa – 19 July 2001 in Johannesburg), also known as Danie Overbeek, was a South African amateur astronomer and one of the most prolific variable star observers.
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Military Engineering-Technical University
The Saint Petersburg Military Engineering-Technical University (Nikolaevsky) (Санкт-Петербургский Военный инженерно-технический университет, VITU), previously known as the Saint Petersburg Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy, was established in 1810 under Alexander I.
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Mills Observatory
The Mills Observatory in Dundee, Scotland, is the first purpose-built public astronomical observatory in the UK.
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Milwaukee Astronomical Society
The Milwaukee Astronomical Society (MAS) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization serving amateur astronomers in the greater Milwaukee area since 1932, making it one of the oldest continuously running astronomy clubs in the nation.
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Minthis Hills
Minthis Hills is a resort close to Tsada village in the south west district of Paphos, Cyprus.
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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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MIT Computation Center
The MIT Computation Center was organized in 1956 as a 10-year joint venture between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IBM to provide computing resources for New England universities.
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Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society
On May 31, 1989, seven amateur astronomers held an organizational meeting in the Solar Classroom at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, to plan the formation of an astronomy club.
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Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society
The Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society (MPAS) is an amateur astronomical society based in the south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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National Astronomy Meeting
The National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) is an annual scientific conference of astronomers, usually held in the British Isles.
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Navaneeth Unnikrishnan
Navaneeth Unnikrishnan is an Indian Amateur Astronomer and Astrophotographer from Kerala.
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Neuchâtel Observatory
The Neuchâtel Observatory (Observatoire Cantonal de Neuchâtel) is an astronomical observatory funded by the Public Economy Department of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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Newlands Corner
Newlands Corner is a picnic site and beauty spot on a ridge of the Albury Downs, part of the North Downs.
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NGC 1559
NGC 1559 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Reticulum.
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NGC 4550
NGC 4550 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation of Virgo that can be seen with amateur telescopes.
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NGC 457
NGC 457 (also known as the Owl Cluster, the ET Cluster, or Caldwell 13) is an open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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NGC 4651
NGC 4651 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices that can be seen with amateur telescopes, at a distance not well determined that ranges from 35 million light years to 72 million light years.
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NGC 4654
NGC 4654 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation of Virgo at a distance of 55 million light years (16.8 megaparsecs) from the Milky Way that can be spotted with amateur telescopes.
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Night sky
The term night sky, usually associated with astronomy from Earth, refers to the nighttime appearance of celestial objects like stars, planets, and the Moon, which are visible in a clear sky between sunset and sunrise, when the Sun is below the horizon.
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NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe is a best-selling popular science book by Terence Dickinson.
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Nik Szymanek
Nicholas Szymanek, better known as Nik Szymanek, is a British amateur astronomer and prolific astrophotographer, based in Essex, England.
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No.1 Senior High School of Ürümqi
The No.1 Senior High School of Ürümqi, literally Ürümqi No.1 High School, colloquially abbreviated as "乌鲁木齐一中" or "乌市一中", sometimes called No.1 Middle School of Urumqi, is a prestigious public high school in Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, under the jurisdiction of the Urumqi Municipal Education Bureau.
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Norman Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, KCB FRS (17 May 1836 – 16 August 1920), known simply as Norman Lockyer, was an English scientist and astronomer.
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North American Meteor Network
The North American Meteor Network (NAMN) was established in June 1995 as an electronic social network of people using the Web to share an interest in meteors.
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Northern Virginia Astronomy Club
The Northern Virginia Astronomy Club was founded in 1980 by student amateur astronomers of Thomas Jefferson High School (Annandale, Virginia) and George Mason University in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C. with a focus to make astronomy available to the public.
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Northumberland Astronomical Society
The Northumberland Astronomical Society was founded in 2000 by local amateur astronomers in Northumberland, UK.
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Nyrölä Observatory
Nyrölä Observatory (Nyrölän observatorio) is an amateur astronomical observatory in Finland.
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Obermaier
Obermaier is a family name in German speaking regions.
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Obermeyer
Obermeyer is a family name in German speaking regions.
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Ochoco National Forest
The Ochoco National Forest is located in Central Oregon in the United States, north and east of the city of Prineville, location of the national forest headquarters.
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Onizuka Center for International Astronomy
The Onizuka Center for International Astronomy, also known as Hale Pōhaku, is a complex of support facilities for the telescopes and other instruments that comprise the Mauna Kea Observatory atop Mauna Kea, on Hawaiokinai island.
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Open access
Open access (OA) refers to research outputs which are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers, and possibly with the addition of a Creative Commons license to promote reuse.
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Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion.
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Oscar Monnig
Oscar E. Monnig (September 4, 1902 – May 4, 1999) was an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his contributions to meteoritics.
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Otto Kippes
Otto Kippes (1905–1994) was a German Catholic priest and amateur astronomer.
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Outline of astronomy
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to astronomy: Astronomy – studies the universe beyond Earth, including its formation and development, and the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects (such as galaxies, planets, etc.) and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth (such as the cosmic background radiation).
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Outline of relationships
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to interpersonal relationships.
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Outline of space science
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to space science: Space science encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that involve space exploration and study natural phenomena and physical bodies occurring in outer space, such as space medicine and astrobiology.
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P. Devadas
Professor P. Devadas was an amateur astronomer from India.
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Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 19239 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
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Paul Baize
Paul Achille‐Ariel Baize (11 March 1901 – 6 October 1995) was a French pediatrician and amateur astronomer specialising in double star observations.
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Paul Boltwood
Paul Boltwood (1943-2017) was a Canadian amateur astronomer.
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Paul G. Comba
Paul G. Comba (1926 - April 5, 2017) was an Italian-American computer scientist, an amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.
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Pavel Kunaver
Pavel Kunaver (19 December 1889 – 19 April 1988) was a Slovene pedagogue, writer of popular science books, geography, history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy in Slovenia.
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Pavel Petrovich Parenago
Pavel Petrovich Parenago (20 March 1906 – 5 January 1960) was a Soviet scientist, astronomer, and professor.
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Peach Mountain Observatory
The Peach Mountain Observatory (PMO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Michigan (UM).
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Peter Francis Williams
Peter Francis Williams is an amateur astronomer from New South Wales, Australia.
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Peter Jalowiczor
Peter Jalowiczor (born 1965) is an amateur astronomer living in South Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom.
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PH1b
PH1b (standing for "Planet Hunters 1"), or by its NASA designation Kepler-64b, is an extrasolar planet found in a circumbinary orbit in the quadruple star system Kepler-64.
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Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth
Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth (19 March 1867 — 4 January 1941) was a German selenographer.
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Pierre Antonini
Pierre Antonini is a retired French mathematics professor and amateur astronomer who has discovered several minor planets and two supernovae at his private Observatoire de Bédoin (Bedoin Observatory; observatory code: 132) located at Bédoin, southeastern France.
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Planetario di Milano
The Milan Planetarium (in Italian, Planetario di Milano) is the largest and most important planetarium in Italy.
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PLate OPtimizer
PLate OPtimizer, or PLOP is a CAD program used by amateur telescope makers to design primary mirror support cells for reflecting telescopes.
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Polar alignment
Polar alignment is the act of aligning the rotational axis of a telescope's equatorial mount or a sundial's gnomon with a celestial pole to parallel Earth's axis.
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Popular Astronomy (US magazine)
Popular Astronomy is an American magazine published by John August Media, LLC and hosted at TechnicaCuriosa.com for amateur astronomers.
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Potentially hazardous object
A potentially hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make exceptionally close approaches to the Earth and large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact.
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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator
Practical Astronomy with your Calculator is a book written by Peter Duffett-Smith, a University Lecturer and a Fellow of Downing College.
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Pragyan
Pragyan is the annual techno-managerial festival of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
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Questar Corporation
Questar Corporation is a company based in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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R Coronae Borealis variable
An R Coronae Borealis variable (abbreviated RCB, R CrB) is an eruptive variable star that varies in luminosity in two modes, one low amplitude pulsation (a few tenths of a magnitude), and one irregular, unpredictably-sudden fading by 1 to 9 magnitudes.
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R. Jay GaBany
Robert Jay GaBany (born September 17, 1954 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American amateur astronomer and astrophotographer who is also known for his work with an international team of astrophysicists led by (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy).
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Radha Gobinda Chandra
Radhagobinda Chandra (রাধা গোবিন্দ চন্দ্র;July 16, 1878 - April 3, 1975) was a Bangladeshi-Indian astronomer.
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Radiative cooling
Radiative cooling is the process by which a body loses heat by thermal radiation.
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Redhill, Surrey
Redhill is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead within the county of Surrey, England.
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Reginald Lawson Waterfield
Reginald Lawson Waterfield (12 April 1900 – 10 June 1986 in Woolston) was a British hematologist known for his work in amateur astronomy.
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Richard Christopher Carrington
Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875) was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun.
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Richard D. Lines
Richard D. Lines (April 21, 1916 – June 29, 1992) was an American amateur astronomer.
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Richard Huziak
Richard Huziak (born March 18, 1957 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian amateur astronomer for whom the International Astronomical Union named main-belt asteroid 4143 Huziak.
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Richard Kowalski
Richard A. Kowalski (born 1963) is an American astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, among them, many near-Earth objects.
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Right Now (Leon Jackson album)
Right Now is the debut studio album by Scottish singer Leon Jackson, released on 20 October 2008, via Syco Music and Sony BMG.
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RimWorld
RimWorld is a top-down construction and management simulation computer game currently being developed by Ludeon Studios.
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Ring Nebula
The Ring Nebula (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 or NGC 6720) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra.
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Robert Burnham Jr.
Robert Burnham Jr. (June 16, 1931 – March 20, 1993) was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook.
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Robert Gendler
Robert Gendler (born September 30, 1957) is an American amateur astronomer and astrophotographer.
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Robert Smith (running back)
Robert Scott Smith (born March 4, 1972) is a college football analyst for Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network.
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Robotic telescope
A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human.
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Rocca di Papa
Rocca di Papa (Roman Castles Romanesco: 'A Rocca) is a small town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 9 January 1969) is a Spanish-American astrophotographer.
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Romance (love)
Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.
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RTMC Astronomy Expo
The RTMC Astronomy Expo is one of the major gatherings of amateur astronomers in the United States.
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Russell W. Porter
Russell Williams Porter (December 13, 1871 – February 22, 1949) was an American artist, engineer, amateur astronomer and explorer.
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Ryves Comet
Ryves Comet, also known as C/1931 P1, 1931 E or 1931c, was discovered by P.M. Ryves, an English amateur astronomer, on August 14, 1931.
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San José Observatory
The St.
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, music composer and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.
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Scientific American
Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.
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Scott Saunders Space Adventure
The Scott Saunders Space Adventure series are a series of young adult science-fiction novels written by amateur astronomer Patrick Moore.
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Secretan (company)
Secretan was a company based in Paris, France that manufactured telescopes.
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Setting circles
Setting circles are used on telescopes equipped with an equatorial mount to find astronomical objects in the sky by their equatorial coordinates often used in star charts or ephemerides.
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Sh2-279
Sh2-279 (alternatively designated S279 or Sharpless 279) is an HII region and bright nebulae that includes a reflection nebula located in the constellation Orion.
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Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society
The Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and one of the oldest continuously meeting astronomy clubs in the nation.
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Sidewalk astronomy
Sidewalk astronomy or street corner astronomy refers to the activity of setting up a telescope in an urban place on a for-profit or non-profit basis as entertainment and/or for public education.
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Simon Plössl
Simon Plössl (September 19, 1794, Vienna – January 29, 1868, Vienna) was an Austrian optical instrument maker.
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Okábleča Otȟúŋwahe; "Stone Shatter City") is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 145th-most populous city in the United States.
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Sky
The sky (or celestial dome) is everything that lies above the surface of the Earth, including the atmosphere and outer space.
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Sky & Telescope
Sky & Telescope (S&T) is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy, including the following.
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Sky quality meter
A sky quality meter (SQM) is an instrument used to measure the luminance of the night sky.
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Sky-Watcher
Sky-Watcher is a commercial distribution company established in 1999 by the Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan (Synta Taiwan) that markets telescopes and astronomical equipment, like mounts and eyepieces, aimed at the amateur astronomical market.
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SkyTools
SkyTools is an observation-planning program for amateur astronomers, running under Windows.
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SkyWeek
SkyWeek was a weekly astronomy television program created by Sky & Telescope magazine.
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Slooh
Slooh is a robotic telescope service that can be viewed live through a web browser with Flash plug-in.
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Small telescope
A small telescope is generally considered by professional astronomers to be any reflector-type telescope with a primary mirror of less than diameter.
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SN 1994I
SN 1994I is a Type Ic supernova discovered on April 2, 1994 in the Whirlpool Galaxy by amateur astronomers Tim Puckett and Jerry Armstrong of the Atlanta Astronomy Club.
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SN 2014J
SN 2014J was a type-Ia supernova in Messier 82 (the 'Cigar Galaxy', M82) discovered in mid-January 2014.
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Society for Amateur Scientists
The Society for Amateur Scientists (SAS) was a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to "helping ordinary people do extraordinary science".
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Society for Popular Astronomy
The Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) is a national astronomical society based in the United Kingdom for beginners to amateur astronomy.
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Solar telescope
A solar telescope is a special purpose telescope used to observe the Sun.
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Southern Cross Astronomical Society
The Southern Cross Astronomical Society, founded in 1922, is one of the oldest amateur astronomy societies in the Western Hemisphere.
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Space Place at Carter Observatory
Space Place at Carter Observatory stands at the top of the Botanic Gardens in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Star hopping
Star hopping is a technique that amateur astronomers often use to locate astronomical objects in the night sky.
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Star party
A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers for the purpose of observing the sky.
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Stargaze
Stargaze can refer to.
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Stargazing (disambiguation)
Stargazing refers to amateur astronomy.
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Starry Eyed (Ellie Goulding song)
"Starry Eyed" is a song by English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding, released as the second single from her debut studio album, Lights (2010).
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Starry Night (planetarium software)
Starry Night is a commercial planetarium software package, available for macOS and Microsoft Windows.
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Stefano Sposetti
Stefano Sposetti (born December 22, 1958) is a Swiss amateur astronomer, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.
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Stellafane
Stellafane (Latin for shrine to the stars) is the name of the clubhouse built by the Springfield Telescope Makers club of Springfield, Vermont in the early 1920s, and has since come to refer to the club's land and buildings on the summit of Breezy Hill.
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Stephen J. Edberg
Stephen J. Edberg (born 1952) is a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Steve Mandel
Steve Mandel is an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer.
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Sufi Observing Competition
Sufi Observing Competition is an international competition and like Messier marathon, but more difficult with various subjects.
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Super Duper Super Sleuths
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super-Duper Super Sleuths is one of three Winnie the Pooh films based on the hit Playhouse Disney series My Friends Tigger & Pooh.
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Supernova
A supernova (plural: supernovae or supernovas, abbreviations: SN and SNe) is a transient astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a star's life, either a massive star or a white dwarf, whose destruction is marked by one final, titanic explosion.
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Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown
Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown is the fourth and final season of the Philippine version of the reality television series Survivor.
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Sutherland, Northern Cape
Sutherland is a town with about 2,841 inhabitants in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
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Suzhou Synta Optical Technology
Suzhou Synta Optical Technology Co., Ltd. is Chinese company located in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, the primary manufacturing subsidiary of Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan.
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Tähdet ja avaruus
Tähdet ja avaruus is a Finnish science magazine which publishes recent developments, news and interviews in astronomy, space technology, cosmology and amateur astronomy.
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Te Raekaihau Point
Te Raekaihau Point is a rugged coastal landform in Wellington, New Zealand, adjacent to Princess Bay, between Houghton Bay to the west and Lyall Bay to the east on the south coast.
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Telescope
A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).
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Telescope mount
A telescope mount is a mechanical structure which supports a telescope.
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Terence Dickinson
Terence Dickinson CM (born 10 Nov 1943, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian amateur astronomer and accomplished astrophotographer who lives near Yarker, Ontario, Canada.
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Tetsuya Fujii
Tetsuya Fujii (藤井哲也, Fujii Tetsuya; born 1960) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets.
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The European Radio Astronomy Club
The European Radio Astronomy club (ERAC) is Europe's only group coordinating the work of radio astronomers to jointly use radio waves to study the universe at radio wavelengths.
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The Little Prince (2015 film)
The Little Prince is a 2015 English-language French 3D animated fantasy adventure family drama film directed by Mark Osborne and based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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The Minor Planet Bulletin
The Minor Planet Bulletin is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal.
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The Sky (magazine)
The Sky was a magazine for amateur astronomers published between 1935 and 1941.
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The Sky Is a Neighborhood
"The Sky Is a Neighborhood" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters.
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The Telescope
The Telescope was a magazine for amateur astronomers published between 1931 and 1941.
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The Wind in the Willows (TV series)
The Wind in the Willows is a TV series that was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1987, based on characters from Kenneth Grahame's classic story The Wind in the Willows and following the 1983 film The Wind in the Willows.
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Thomas Bopp
Thomas Joel Bopp (October 15, 1949 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronomer best known as the co-discoverer of comet Hale–Bopp (with Alan Hale) in 1995.
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Tim Hunter (astronomer)
Timothy B. Hunter, better known as Tim Hunter, is an American radiologist and amateur astronomer.
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Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology
Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology.
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Tom Johnson (astronomer)
Thomas Jasper Johnson or Tom Johnson (January 11, 1923 – March 13, 2012) was an American electronics engineer and astronomer who founded Celestron, a company which manufacturers telescopes, which revolutionized the amateur astronomy industry and hobby.
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Tpoint
TPoint is computer software that implements a mathematical model of conditions leading to errors in telescope pointing and tracking.
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Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)
The Trump International Hotel and Tower, is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Tunç Tezel
Tunç Tezel (born in 1977 in Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish amateur astronomer and photographer.
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UGC 4904
UGC 4904 is a galaxy located in the constellation Lynx, located about 77 million light-years from Earth.
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Ursa (Finland)
Ursa Astronomical Association (Tähtitieteellinen yhdistys Ursa ry) is the largest astronomical association in Finland.
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Vaclav Ourednik
Vaclav Ourednik, PhD (* June 27, 1960 in Prague) is a Swiss natural scientist of Czech origin.
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Variable star
A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) fluctuates.
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Ventura Pier
The Ventura Pier, formerly known as the Ventura Wharf and the San Buenaventura Wharf, is a wooden pier located on the Pacific Ocean in Ventura, California.
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Vincenzo Silvano Casulli
Vincenzo Silvano Casulli (born 1944; usually known as Silvano Casulli) is an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.
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Walter Goodacre
Walter Goodacre (1856 – 1 May 1938) was a British businessman and amateur astronomer.
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Walter H. Haas
Walter H. Haas (July 3, 1917 – April 6, 2015) was an American amateur astronomer.
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Walter Scott Houston
Walter Scott Houston (May 30, 1912–December 23, 1993) was an American popularizer of amateur astronomy.
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Warren Dunes State Park
Warren Dunes State Park is a Michigan state park, located along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Berrien County.
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Wellington, Colorado
Wellington is a statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
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Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus.
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White House Astronomy Night
White House Astronomy Night (and alternatively Astronomy Night on the National Mall) is an event first organized by the White House in conjunction with the Office of Science and Technology Policy to motivate interest in astronomy and science education.
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White Tank Mountain Regional Park
The White Tank Mountain Regional Park is a large regional park located in west-central Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Wilfred Mott
Wilfred "Wilf" Mott is a recurring fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Bernard Cribbins.
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William Cranch Bond
William Cranch Bond (9 September 1789 – 29 January 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory.
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William Frederick Denning
William Frederick Denning (25 November 1848 – 9 June 1931) was a British amateur astronomer who achieved considerable success without formal scientific training.
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William Radcliffe Birt
William Radcliffe Birt FRAS (1804–1881) was an English amateur astronomer in the 19th century.
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William Tyler Olcott
William Tyler Olcott (1873–1936) was an American lawyer and amateur astronomer.
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WinStars
WinStars is an ASCOM standard-compliant shareware planetarium, ephemeris and solar system simulator developed by Richard Franck for the Android, iOS, Linux, OSX, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
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Wolf Bickel
Wolf Bickel (born 6 July 1942, Bensberg) is a German amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at his private Bergisch Gladbach Observatory, Germany.
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Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest National Park of Canada at.
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XEphem
XEphem is a Motif based ephemeris and planetarium program for Unix-like operating systems developed by Elwood C. Downey.
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Xiangshawan
Xiangshawan, also known as and by other names, is a AAAAA-rated tourist area in the Dalad Banner of Ordos Prefecture in Inner Mongolia, China.
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XO-1b
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Yoshiaki Banno
was a Japanese astronomer and co-discover of 4200 Shizukagozen, an asteroid of the main-belt.
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Yuji Hyakutake
was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet C/1996 B2, also known as Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996 while using 25×150 binoculars.
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11132 Horne
11132 Horne, provisional designation, is a Hygiean asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.
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1207 Ostenia
1207 Ostenia, provisional designation, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 23 kilometers in diameter.
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13006 Schwaar
13006 Schwaar, provisional designation, is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.
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13154 Petermrva
13154 Petermrva, provisional designation, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.2 kilometers in diameter.
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1681 Steinmetz
1681 Steinmetz, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter.
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1690 Mayrhofer
1690 Mayrhofer, provisional designation, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 32 kilometers in diameter.
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1722 Goffin
1722 Goffin, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10.3 kilometers in diameter.
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1906 Naef
1906 Naef, provisional designation, is a stony vestoid asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter.
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2009 Jupiter impact event
The 2009 Jupiter impact event, occasionally referred to as the Wesley impact, was a July 2009 impact on Jupiter that caused a black spot in the planet's atmosphere.
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2010 Jupiter impact event
The 2010 Jupiter impact event was a bolide impact event on Jupiter by an object estimated to be about 8–13 meters in diameter.
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2015 TB145
is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately in diameter.
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21795 Masi
21795 Masi, provisional designation, is a Nysian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.
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3031 Houston
3031 Houston, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter.
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365 Days of Astronomy
365 Days of Astronomy is an educational podcast, inspired by the International Year of Astronomy, published daily beginning in 2009.
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367943 Duende
367943 Duende, provisional designation, is a micro-asteroid and a near-Earth object of the Aten and Atira group, approximately in diameter.
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3915 Fukushima
3915 Fukushima, provisional designation, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 21 kilometers in diameter.
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3C 273
3C 273 is a quasar located in the constellation Virgo.
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4349 Tibúrcio
4349 Tibúrcio, provisional designation, is a dark asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 29 kilometers in diameter.
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5899 Jedicke
5899 Jedicke, provisional designation, is a binary Hungaria asteroid approximately 3 kilometers in diameter.
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77185 Cherryh
77185 Cherryh, provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter.
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7803 Adachi
7803 Adachi, provisional designation, is a stony Agnia asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.
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78431 Kemble
78431 Kemble, provisional designation, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter.
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79912 Terrell
79912 Terrell, provisional designation, is a dark Adeonian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter.
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95179 Berkó
95179 Berkó, provisional designation, is a Massalian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.
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96P/Machholz
Comet 96P/Machholz or 96P/Machholz 1 is a short-period sungrazing comet discovered on May 12, 1986, by amateur astronomer Donald Machholz on Loma Prieta peak, in central California using binoculars.
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9Spitch
9Spitch, officially designated ASW0009io9, is a gravitationally lensed system of two galaxies.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_astronomy
