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Cost-effective Catalina
The Catalina Sky Survey is a NASA-funded effort to identify near-earth objects, or NEOs, whose orbits cross the path of the Earth and are potentially hazardous. We have talked about NASA’s NEO p… more →
Data-Mining for Astronomy
Cost-effective Catalina
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wrote 3 months ago: The Catalina Sky Survey is a NASA-funded effort to identify near-earth objects, or NEOs, whose orbit … more →
Paper of the Day: Great Surveys of the Universe
wrote 3 months ago: Last April, Dr. Steven Myers of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory published a position paper … more →
Scary Asteroids! How huge sky surveys and little pushes will save the Earth.
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wrote 1 year ago: When I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, the opportunities available to the amateur f … more →
Long-Period Variables and the AAVSO
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wrote 1 year ago: As described in my last post, I recently became interested in variable stars. The American Associa … more →
LSST and Pan-STARRS
wrote 1 year ago: It was announced yesterday that the LSST’s giant 8.4 primary mirror blank (molded together wit … more →
Open clusters and the CDS
wrote 1 year ago: Dispersed throughout the Milky Way are thousands of galactic (or ‘open’) star clusters, so named bec … more →
Zooming in on a star atlas
wrote 1 year ago: The series of images below will give some impression as to the image content of recent deep sky sur … more →
Browsing surveys
wrote 1 year ago: For fun I have been poking around a number of astronomical surveys and thought it would be interesti … more →
