Across Africa, people turned to the sky, watching the reddish shadow slide up the moon&aposs surface.
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Mayflower keeps an eye on the sky, watching for predators so he can keep his chicken friends safe.
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All the while, a whole, entire fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers sat higher up in the sky watching everything unfold.
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Patchy rains have led to some anxious sky-watching, even as floods in eastern and northeastern India have displaced and killed people.
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The cameras that Dr. Jenniskens operates are like video surveillance cameras, but they are directed toward the night sky, watching for meteors.
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TESS will spend two years scrutinizing the entire sky, watching nearby stars for minute dips in brightness caused by a nearby alien world.
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Aoraki International Dark Sky Reserve, New Zealand The uninterrupted space in this corner of the world provides some of the best sky watching around.
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Australia is another one of those places in the world, like Norway, where sky watching could turn into a rare showing of the auroras.
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Its mission, slated to last three and a half years, was to stare unblinkingly at one small patch of sky, watching each star for the minute changes that could indicate a planet briefly blocking its light.
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The Vatican had in-house observatories until the 1930s when light pollution in the Italian capital began interfering with sky watching, so they transferred the institute to the papal palace and gardens at Castel Gandolfo, where popes have summered for centuries.
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Next year, the Observatory and the Vatican Museums hope to allow paying visitors to experience nighttime sky watching through this telescope, situated in a dome where Pope Paul VI watched the moon landing and gave a short address to the astronauts.
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A comprehensive, up to date catalog of resources, including where to find equipment and sky-watching clubs.
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At the end of the film, an alien ship is visible in the sky, watching the scene.
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Its Ionospheric and Earthquake Research Centre (IERC) where a 24-inch optical telescope is being installed there. School and college students regularly carry out sky watching using its 10-inch telescope.
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Information on sky watching in all seasons, plus sky photos and star charts. There is also information on light pollution, the Ecliptic and the Zodiac plus reality checks of the urban myths of stargazing.
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Johann Tobias Bürg. Johann Tobias Bürg (December 24, 1766 – November 15, 1835), sometimes known as Johannes Burg,Plotner, Tammy. The Night Sky Companion: A Yearly Guide to Sky-Watching 2009, p. 319\. Springer Science+Business Media (New York), 2009.
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Because reflected sunlight is necessary to see satellites, the best viewing times are for a few hours immediately after nightfall and a few hours before dawn. Given the number of satellites now in orbit, a fifteen-minute session of sky watching will generally yield at least one satellite passing overhead.
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The planetarium offers a sky watching service called Sky Calendar. It has a sheet for each month and illustrates the positions of the moon, the planets and zodiacal constellations. It has over 10000 paid subscribers and has appeared in issues of Science and Children. It has received awards and good reviews from astronomical publications such as Sky & Telescope, Mercury, and Scientific American.
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John A. Day (May 24, 1913, Salina, Kansas – June 21, 2008, McMinnville, Oregon) was an American meteorologist, educator, and sky-watching evangelist. He charted new Pan American Airways air routes throughout the Asia Pacific region in the era before weather satellites and computer-generated instant data. A photographer of nature and atmospheric phenomenon, he published numerous books, articles, atlases and cloud charts that explained the importance of weather. Popularly known as “The Cloudman” during his decades as both a college professor and lay advocate for cloud appreciation.
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It was the first organization in India to organize the amateur astronomers' Meet in India. Since its establishment in August 1986, many seminars, workshops, Basic Astronomy Courses for students and elders, Sky Watching Programmes were conducted by the organization. It has also enhanced the astronomical literature in India by publishing the "Directory of Persons Associated with Astronomy in India". The important milestones in the brief tenure of Akashmitra Mandal are marked by some major contributions to the society in the field of astronomy in general and information dissemination in particular.
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The department has three lecture halls, five laboratories, an independent library, and one computer lab with internet facility. Some staff members of the Department have taken active interest in applied research. The department conducts sky watching programs, special lectures, seminars, personality development courses and workshops for students and the general public through the Physics Study Circle (Einstein Study Circle). The Einstein Study Circle, Department of Physics, Karnatak Science College, Dharwad, is involved in activities like arranging lectures and workshops, conducting competitions – quiz, debate, seminars and personality development and people skills program.
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From 1991-2000 DeWire wrote two columns, "Lifelines" and "Whale Oil and Wicks" for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Mariners Weather Log. Since that time DeWire has authored more than twenty books about lighthouses, including a series of illustrated, quick-reference e-books about lighthouses, the "Itty-Bitty-Kitty Guides". She has also written romance novels, plus four books and a number of articles about amateur astronomy and sky watching and an e-book about poultry. She has continued to contribute articles about lighthouses to magazines and newspapers,"As lighthouse turns 100, museum pays homage to Point Robinson".
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Special events in the museum often overflow into the theater, and as such, Johnson Theater is often used for corporate and large-group events. The Albert Einstein Planetarium is located in the National Air and Space Museum, and presents movies to visitors in high definition on its Sky Vision Dual Projection Digital Dome System. The screen is on the ceiling, and the movie plays on all parts of the dome (360 degrees) throughout the show. Certain days of the week, there is a free admission show known as "The Stars Tonight" in which the traditional planetarium equipment is utilized to give visitors a sky watching experience in the museum.
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Satellite watching started by being done with the naked eye or with the aid of binoculars since predictions of when they would be visible was difficult; most low Earth orbit satellites also move too quickly to be tracked easily by the telescopes available to astronomers. It is this movement, as the satellite tracks across the night sky, that makes them possible to see. As with any sky-watching pastime, the darker the sky the better, so hobbyists will meet with better success further away from light-polluted urban areas. Today most observers use digital still cameras or video cameras; imagery is put into Astrometry software to generate the angles needed to generate "observations" that are used to calculate orbits of the satellites imaged.
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