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Four panel photo-mosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount. Prime focus. Clear Sky, very bad seeing. Processed in MS ICE and Paint Shop Pro.

ATel 9954: FLOYDS Classification of KAIT-17A/AT 2017be as an LBV Outburst

ATel 9952: ASASSN-17ai and ASASSN-17aj: Discovery of Two Probable Supernovae

**ATel 9951:** ASASSN-17af: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in MCG -01-32-001

ATel 9951: ASASSN-17af: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in MCG -01-32-001

Hello all newbie question.Is Vesta classed as a near earth object?

At Esrange, the Aerospace Operation Facility of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), preparations are carried out for a Texus sounding rocket launch planned for 30 November. This will be the first launch from Esrange using the new Brazilian sounding rocket VSB-30, replacing the [url=ht...

Title: SXP7.92: A Recently Rediscovered Be/X-ray Binary in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Viewed Edge On Author: E. S. Bartlett, M. J. Coe, G. L. Israel, J. S. Clark, P. Esposito, V. D'Elia, A. Udalski We present a detailed optical and X-ray study of the 2013 outburst of the Small Magellanic Cloud Be/X-...

33 panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount. 2 x Barlow lens. Clear Sky, very bad seeing.

This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization They had been digging for days, shaded from the Greek sun by a square of green tarpaulin slung between olive trees. The archaeologists used picks to break the cream-colored clay, baked as hard as r...

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Pakistan 'launches first cruise missile from submarine' Pakistan has successfully tested its first submarine-launched cruise missile, the country's military says. The Babur-3 missile, which has a range of 450km, could carry a nuclear warhead, a spokesman confirmed to the AFP news agency. Re...

New Research Vessel Launched The new research vessel Skagerak has now been put in water for the first time, and everything seems to have worked as planned. A few days ago, Skagerak was transferred from its construction site to another shipyard, Remontowa, aboard a barge carrier to be placed in a floa...

Image of the eastern limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

Title: Star formation driven galactic winds in UGC 10043 Author: C. López-Cobá, S. F. Sánchez, A. V. Moiseev, D. V. Oparin, T. Bitsakis, I. Cruz-González, C. Morisset, L. Galbany, J. Bland-Hawthorn, M. M. Roth, R.-J. Dettmar, D. J. Bomans, R. M. González Delgado, M. Cano-Díaz, R. A. Marino, C. Kehr...

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up -- and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all. The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a coll...