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Mercury Transit of the sun
as seen from Holton, Kansas on 8 November 2006 at about 1:30PM. Sunspot
upper left, Mercury lower left. Equipment: TeleVue 101, Baader solar filter,
Canon A70 camera. Next transit is 2016. |
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Venus Transit of the sun at sun
rise with clouds as seen from Holton, Kansas on 8 June 2004, lasting about
25 minutes here. The last sun picture taken several minutes after transit. Last event was 112 years ago.
TeleVue 101 telescope. Next transit is 6 June 2012. |
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Astronomy Picture
of the Day
Earth Picture of the Day
Moon Picture of the Day
Mars Picture of the Day
Locate Space Station and Satellites
Sun and Moon rising times and more
Space Weather, Sunspots |
See the comet
Ikeya-Zhang
movie of
it. |
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International
Dark-Sky Association Two out of three people in the United States of America no
longer see the Milky Way with their naked eye because of light pollution.
This light pollution can be decreased with the benefit of saving energy and
improving safety. See web site:
http://www.darksky.org/ida/index.html
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Moon passing over Saturn
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on picture to see a larger view. |
This picture was taken from a digital movie
made by holding a Camcorder to the eyepiece on a TeleVue 101 telescope. |
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Elk Creek Observatory,
Holton High School
Holton, Kansas
Original White fiberglass dome (left) and new aluminum dome
(right pictures). 20"
RC telescope |
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Holton Astronomy Day April 2005
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Mike Ford of Holton High School and Dr. Lynn
Cominsky from California, Professor at Sonoma State University NASA Scientist with Kansas
Wind Power's PST (Personal Solar Telescope) |
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click on pictures to see a larger view. |
Northern Lights
Aurora as seen in Kansas
5 Nov 2001
Looking East
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29 Oct 03 Aurora
Holton, KS |
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30 Oct 03 Aurora
Holton, KS |
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20 November 03 Aurora
Holton, KS looking East towards Kansas City. The yellow cloud is from Kansas
City lights. |
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Aurora
8 November 04
Holton, KS 10-11 PM |
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Night sky with clouds
8 November 04 |
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Aurora
9 November 04
Midnight to 2 AM |
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Aurora
14 December 06
6 -10 PM |
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Kansas Sky |
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Comet Hale-Bopp 1997 |
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Large heart shaped sunspot 18 August 2002.
This could also be seen without using a telescope by simply looking through
the solar filter for eye protection. |
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These sunspot pictures were taken through the 4" TV101
refractor telescope with a solar filter using a camcorder. |
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Sun as seen through a Hydrogen alpha filter.
This low quality picture is not near as good as what your eye would see.
Loop from large sunspot 7sept05. About 8 times the size of
earth. |
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Clouds
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Venus & Jupiter |
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Mars, Moon, Venus, Jupiter
10 November 04 |
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Saturn, Venus &
Mercury
June 2005 |
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Jupiter, Venus, Moon Conjunction
Aug, Sept 2005 Kevin Rosero has
collected 111 pictures from around the world of this 5 to 8 September 2005
conjunction. Click on
The Conjunction Project to see his amazing report. |
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