Solar Observations: June 2020
Monty has been observing regularly but over the past few months his reports have not been happy ones because the Sun has not been very...
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Monty Leventhal OAM
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Solar Observations: January 2020
Sunspot activity for the month of January remained extremely low however, on the 3rd January a single Axx spot was observed of the new...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 3, 20191 min read
Did you know? Comets...dirty snowballs
The long and short of it….. the orbital period of comets can range from long period comets like Comet McNaught, 92,700 years, to Comet...
Elizabeth Cocking
Apr 30, 20192 min read
In this month: May
2nd May 1780 Sir William Herschel discovers the first binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris, also named Alula Australis, in the constellation of...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jan 31, 20192 min read
In this month - February
13 February 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating the Copernican theory, which...
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