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Binocular Tour
10 x 50 In the days before Herman Snellen introduced his eponymous eye-test chart, mag. +2.2 Mizar (Zeta (ζ) Ursae Majoris) and mag. +4.0 Alcor (80 Ursae Majoris) were used as an eyesight test: if you couldn’t see two stars, you knew you needed spect
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The Southern Hemisphere
1 May at 00:00 AEDT (30 Apr, 14:00 UT) 15 May at 23:00 AEST (13:00 UT) 31 May at 22:00 AEST (12:00 UT) The chart accurately matches the sky on the dates and times shown for Sydney, Australia. The sky is different at other times as the stars crossing
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Looking back: The Sky at Night 15 May 1974
On the 15 May 1974 episode, Patrick Moore spoke with US astronomer Carl Sagan about the many investigative strands when looking for alien life. “One is laboratory work on the question of the origin of life, making the molecules which [would]… lead ev

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