Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy
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The Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy is a non-profit astronomical observatory founded in 1972 and dedicated to research and education in astronomy.
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If you're visiting @YosemiteNPS this weekend, you can join us for a star party on Friday and Saturday nights at Glacier Point!
Stars Over Yosemite Annual Star Party Friday, 25 July & Saturday, 26 July 8:30 - 11:30 pm Glacier Point Yosemite National Park, Glacier Point, CA 95389. If you're in the Park, just turn up! A Yosemite National Park entrance pass is required.
Are you visiting Yosemite National Park this weekend? If so, please join us Friday and/or Saturday night as we host a free star party!
Stars Over Yosemite Annual Star Party Friday, 25 July & Saturday, 26 July 8:30 - 11:30 pm Glacier Point Yosemite National Park, Glacier Point, CA 95389. If you're in the Park, just turn up! A Yosemite National Park entrance pass is required.
This is one of the only photographs in existence of this nebula, Hewett 1. It is 6 times the size of the full moon in the sky
Finally a description of what makes baseball good that we can all understand.
“There are two stars in this sport, apart from all others: Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge” Austin Butler gets us ready as we look to see two of the game’s best go at it again
The atmosphere gets in our way all the time. People would probably be unhappy if we removed it though. So, mostly we just get above as much of it as possible.
If you could completely remove one thing from the Earth, what would it be?
Sargas is a yellow giant, most such stars are slow rotators, but Sargas is different. Its rapid rotation implies it is a merged binary star. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.…
Theta Scorpii: SARGAS, from the ancient Babylonian title. Just 1.7 degrees south, the observer will find the bright compressed globular star cluster NGC 6388, easily located, but resolved only with fairly large apertures.
In The Summer Sky Eric Haase tells us what to look for in the night sky this quarter, and meditates on the thin line between comets and asteroids. Read it here: mira.org/sky/sky.htm
Our Summer Newsletter is out. Featuring: Washing the 36-inch Mirror - MIRA Amateur Astronomy Club Corner - Short Exposures - The Final Chapter of Gaia - Measuring the Universe in the Kitchen - A Brighter View of the Universe - MIRA's Mission Partners: our Friends.
When you lie on your back and look up at the sky East and West are reversed from the usual perspective. For this reason, most sky charts are presented this way.
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