Astronomy thread/Kìng a teri tanhìyä tìftia

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Hubble Captures Giant Star on the Edge of Destruction
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-captures-giant-star-on-the-edge-of-destruction

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Next observation of sunspot today, some of that originally tiny sunspot became even more bigger so now there is 5 bigger sunspots in interesting formation which very well reminds shape of Cassiopeia constellation.

I observed these sunspots today again, their formation (and sunspots itself) is still interesting but it's pity that they will be away soon.

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Today I tried to capture these sunspots:

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Spoiler

[Vawmataw]

So I saw Mercury tonight, but no sign of Venus unfortunately. That's all I can do from inside unfortunately.

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Yeah, Venus is already observable but still very badly. However in next weeks it will be already better.

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A bit of daytime astronomy today The sunspots are already unfortunatelly away but luckily I still can observe granulation of solar "surface", through my telescope it's quite nice view. I also observed Venus and Mercury, both successfully.

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HUBBLE WATCHES HOW A GIANT PLANET GROWS
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2021/news-2021-021

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Eltur tìtxen si...

'Oddball supernova' appears strangely cool before exploding
https://www.technology.org/2021/05/06/oddball-supernova-appears-strangely-cool-before-exploding/

[Vawmataw]

I've seen Venus this week, but it's been more possible for me to observe Mercury (like tonight).

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I often observe Venus on daily sky Tonight I plan to observe Mercury too, finally... in previous two days we had always some clouds above horizon in time of evening twilight.

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Tonight I plan to observe Mercury too, finally... in previous two days we had always some clouds above horizon in time of evening twilight.

And Mercury successfully observed Sky above horizon was finally clear enough.

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Sky consitions were great here last two nights and I could do some my strargazing. I observed mostly deepsky in rising summer constellations. Conditions were really great - milky way shone brightly, NGC7000 North America Nebula was brightly visible even by naked eye and NGC6992 Veil Nebula was brightly visible even through small binocular 10x50. I observed mainly clusters and nebulae in Sagittarius and Scorpius (all Messiers + some NGCs), the most epic were M8 Lagoon Nebula, M17 Eagle Nebula and globular cluster M4 which has interesting structure (I could use huge magnification). Except these I observed also some deepsky (mostly nebulae) in Cygnus constellation, the most nice was NGC6960+6992 Veil Nebula through O-III filter (amazing filamental structire of this nebula was nice visible). And except deepsky I also briefly observed rising Saturn and Jupiter.

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There are again some sunspots on the Sun right now, I captured them again.

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Observed Jupiter previous night (morning) and today found this:

By Jove! Jupiter Shows Its Stripes and Colors
https://www.gemini.edu/pr/jove-jupiter-shows-its-stripes-and-colors

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So since the curfew has been moved to 9:30PM I could observe the Moon, Venus and Mercury from outside.

I was only successful with Venus for the pictures:

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That is quite nice image Good that you can observe at least something.

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