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Astroblog: Evening sky on November 3 looking west as seen from Adelaide at 40 minutes after sunset. Similar views will be seen throughout Australia at equivalent local times. (click to embiggen).The November edition of Southern Skywatch is up.This month...

101 astronomical events for 2014 As 2013 draws to a close, we once again cast our thoughts to all things astronomical for the coming year. For the past five years, I’ve been constructing this list of all things astronomical for the coming year...

Bakersfield Night Sky – May 3, 2014 By Nick Strobel Although the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has stopped looking for planets due to hardware failure, discoveries continue as the Kepler team sifts through the four years of data of thousands...

The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first meteor shower of 2017, happens in the hours before dawn on Jan. 3. The streaks of the Quadrantids shower appear to come from the constellation of Bootes the Herdsman, in the northeast. The shower’s name comes...

Introduction Phu Quoc is a very mountainous and densely forested Island of 1320 sq km; it is 48 km in length from south to north and has a population of approx. 80,000 people. Situated in the Gulf of Thailand 45 km west of Ha Tien on the Vietnamese...