We ruminated on the exosolar system Muscida, a naked-eye star with known exoplanets. Then we checked out the neat double star system in Ursa Major: Mizar, Alcor, Mizar A and B. Sky was bright at the start but we viewed Arcturus with our eyes and on the camera. We shared live views and photographs from the telescope. Showed a simulated view in Stellarium Mobile Plus. But for the early morning people, I encouraged them to check out the very nice grouping before dawn, over the next couple of days with the Moon passing Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. Features 6. But this time, without clouds! And it was a fantastic event!Īpologised for the lack of planets. CDC includes the ability to control computerized GoTo telescope. 1 With the change to version 3, Linux has been added as a target platform, licensing has changed from freeware to GPLv2 and the project moved to a new website. Larger instruments will resolve the cluster’s individual stars. Best observed in May, it has an apparent magnitude of 8.3 and can be seen through a small telescope in the constellation Coma Berenices.
#SKYCHART OF M53 FREE#
Note the negative, meaning west.Īt 9:30 PM, we ran another Tour of the Night Sky. Cartes du Ciel ('CDC' and 'Sk圜hart') is a free and open source planetarium program for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Discovered by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1775, M53 is 59,700 light-years away, one of the most distant globular clusters from Earth. Tried to find it but the old NRC magnetic declination calculator is gone! Used a different web site instead. Updated the imaging document with some information on the Fire Capture software.ĭinner: pork chops with a secret recipe rub. Started receiving Clear Sky Alarm Clock alerts for some of my other favourite observing sites around the province. I'll talk about how amateur astronomers can perform citizen science on double stars, contributing to our body of knowledge on star formation and stellar distances.īrianna sent me a YouTube link on an interesting piece on time. Received a confirmation that I'm on the docket for a presentation at the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada General Assembly. Had a go at trying to fix the finder scope illuminator on the 10-inch telescope but it uses some peculiar coin batteries which I don't have. It is very interesting that there are many spacecraft docked to ISS: the brand new Boeing Starliner SpaceX Dragon and a couple of Soyuz.ĭid a bunch of prep at the dome! For the show for the park visitors as well as my next wide-field imaging run. And who's on board right now: Korsakov, Artemyev, Matveev from Roscosmos Lindgren, Hines, and Watkins from NASA Cristoforetti from ESA and crash test dummy Rosie the Rocketeer from Boeing. I looked up the evening's best flyover of the International Space Station.
#SKYCHART OF M53 SOFTWARE#
Cartes du Ciel is a free open source planetarium software to use on Windows, macOS or Linux platform. Looks good according to Environment Canada. of 2 - Cartes du Ciel new version 4.2 - posted in Vendor and Group Announcements: A new version 4.2 of Cartes du Ciel / Skychart free software is now available. The Clear Sky Chart for Killarney had not updated.
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