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September- Cumbrian Astronomy

September To many astronomers in the Northern Hemisphere, the arrival of The Pleiades and the constellation of Orion mark the oncoming of winter. Perhaps two of the most famous sights in the sky, these will start to become more accessible now as the weeks draw on. Ask someone of a non-astronomical nature to name a constellation and chances are it would be either Ursa Major (Plough/Dipper) or Orion. It is not by pure chance that this is so. Both constel
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Sometimes you just have to look

I’ve always been interested in the sky. Looking upwards as a young kid sent my mind wandering with all sorts of unanswerable questions. What’s up there? What’s the bright shape that looks like a pan? (and not a plough as it would turn out). Now however, I am able to answer many of those questions that would have baffled my mind a few years ago. Last night though, accompanied by the perfect conditions showing the bright Milky Way and its millions of stars, my mind wanted to skip back to that ch
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Things for a beginner to keep in mind/ things i wish i'd known

Things to bear in mind -Stars will look like stars no matter what size telescope you have, even Hubble cannot make them out to be suns. -Most objects you will look at through a telescope will be faint fuzzy patches of light, only planets and the moon can be viewed in their colours without the use of expensive long-exposure photographic equipment. -If you live in the UK or somewhere with a similar climate then rain/ clouds will prevent you from doing your hobby a lot of the time, try not t
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August Targets- cumbrianastronomy.wordpre ss

As the nights become longer and true astronomical darkness more substantial, August brings back the skies for observing once again. More accessible this month is Jupiter. Previously rising in the early hours of the morning, the planet will be visible around 11pm on most south eastern horizons, allowing a more realistic chance for newcomers to observe. The show piece this month however, is without a doubt the Perseid meteor shower. Active until the 24th August, the Perseids (named after t
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