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Astronomer Giovanni Sostero, 1964-2012

December 10, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Giovanni Sostero, 1964-2012. Image courtesy of the Remanzacco Observatory With sadness, we learned of the death of amateur astronomer Giovanni Sostero last Friday. Universe Today readers will remember Giovanni as a member of the team of astronomers from the Remanzacco Observatory [...]

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Notes from an Amateur Telescope Maker’s Journal, Part 1

October 22, 2012

A home-made equatorial wedge used with an off-the-shelf telescope, just one of the ways you can improve your telescope experiences. Credit: Dale Jacobs Editor’s note: Interested in DIY telescopes? Amateur astronomer Dale Jacobs will be sharing his experiences in using everyday items to build or enhance telescopes. I am an amateur astronomer and have been [...]

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Thierry Legault: Astrophotography is an ‘Adrenaline Rush’

March 1, 2012

During one of the final space shuttle missions, photographer Thierry Legault traveled nearly 4,000 km across various locations in Europe to try and capture the shuttle docked to the International Space Station as the two spacecraft transited across the surface of the Sun. “Essentially, I was trying to catch the clear sky so I could [...]

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New Comet Discovered by Amateur Astronomer

February 13, 2012

“Friday, February 10th 2012 just felt like the perfect night for a comet to be discovered by an amateur astronomer,” writes Fred Bruenjes on his astronomy blog. And, this past Friday night, that’s exactly what Fred did. Here’s how he did it: Remove this ad

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First Amateur Image of Another Solar System

November 25, 2011

Amateur astronomer Rolf Wahl Olsen from New Zealand shared an image with Universe Today, and it is perhaps the first image of another solar system taken by an amateur. The image above is Olsen’s image of the protoplanetary disc around Beta Pictoris. “For the last couple of years I have been wondering if it was [...]

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