* Astronomy

GeoSatSignal5 is now available for download here: http://www.satsignal.net/. GeoSatSignal5 is a major upgrade of the GeoSatSignal software, with far too many updates to list here. Y...

Astromist, The pocket astronomy software: Astromist lets you easily locate and compute position of stars (up to 2.5 million), planets or sky objects (18200 included) of most well known catalogues It provides powerful sky chart to easily find objects, Hipparchos and Ty...

If you have been getting up very early you may have started to notice Mars is high in the southeast in the early hours before dawn. Yesterday Mars had passed into its “western quadrature." Quadrature, is when two celestial objects (the Sun and Mars) form a 90 degree angle as view...

Aurora Alert, 22:01 UT 10 Jul 2005: Looks like the start of a geomagnetic storm. -- Edited by Blobrana at 00:50, 2005-07-11

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There will be an occultation of comet 9P/Tempel 1 by the Moon on Friday July 15th, 2005. The comet is expected to be about magnitude 9.5 at the date of occultation. The crescent Moon will be at phase 0.59), so disappearance will occur behind the dark limb. The occultation can be seen over New Guinea...

Two storms are forming in the Atlantic Basin. The National Hurricane Centre said a depression near the Dominican Republic had developed into tropical storm Dennis, and could hit Florida, US, on Friday. Dennis is expected to strengthen in coming days and could be a hurricane by the ti...

TSAT SS Completes Major Design Review Boeing has announced the Transformational SATCOM Space Segment (TSAT SS) program has successfully completed its Interim Space Segment Design Review (ISSDR). "The completion of this review is a major step toward realizing the Air Force's...

LunarPhase Pro Moon Software Demo Version Available... The software is a Moon observer's toolkit providing the usual phase predictions, librations (animated as well as monthly max. and min and diagrams), first crescent visibility, interactive atlas, 9,200 feature datab...

For those interested in the optical design side of astronomy, the latest version of the free lens design programs, PreDesigner & WinLens 4.3, are now available at www.winlens.de/. There are two main enhancements to Winlens 4.3: - ...

China today launched another science experimental satellite into orbit, atop a Long March 2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gansu Province. [img]http:/...

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1811-30 NOVA SAGITTARII 2005 NO. 2 Nova identified on July 4.049 UT on two red photos (85mm lens + TP film + deep orange filter), as a red stellar image at magnitude 8.0. Discovered By: William Liller, Vina del Mar Chile Position(2000): R.A. = 18h 17m 50....

Saturn's moon's Mimas, Dione and Rhea, (left to right) on the far side of Saturn's nearly edge-on rings. Expand The ima...