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Deep sky news
2010
2010 June 01
Wayne Mitchell's atlas updated
Wayne Mitchell has produced a second edition of his "Star Gazer's Deep Space Atlas".
2009
2009 April 28
Bertrand Laville's deep sky drawing website
Browse Bertrand's delightful archive of deep sky sketches, many of southern-hemisphere objects.
2009 March 22
The past history of this nearby galactic duo is investigated by astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
2009 February 12
ESO releases a new image of the amazing eta Carinae.
2008
2008 October 28
The ghost of Mirach.
2008 September 21
Update on the status of DOCdb, the deep sky web application for archiving and planning your observations.
2007
2007 January 08
Non-stellar objects in old star catalogues (update)
Update on the 2004 article. I'd like to thank Philipp Teutsch for examining the potential objects I came across; his comments and analysis greatly informed my efforts to see if, just perhaps, those dedicated (and to risk a pun, focussed) astrometrists of a century and a half ago had netted a deep sky object or two.
2006
2006 November 08
Fornax-A & Berto Monard: two for two
Supernova news.
2006 October 25
Recent discovery of a new nebula.
2004
2004 January 01
Non-stellar objects in old star catalogues
Searching for deep sky objects mentioned in old astrometric catalogues.
Southern skies
- Find out about the Moon, stars, planets and constellations visible in the southern skies this month.
ASSA Symposium
- Eighth Biennial ASSA Symposium will be held in Pretoria on 2010 October 07/08.
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Stars to Midnight
- Visit Sutherland, the astronomical mecca of Africa, and enjoy a guided star show and deep sky tour, and see the "Stars To Midnight".
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