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~ The Spotless Sun on the 14th January 2021 ~

1/15/2021

This is the first cloud free day we’ve had here in Queensland since the New Year started, and the solar surface is completely spotless…here’s hoping some solar action starts up again soon,
as I’m waiting for some excitement to happen :-)

Image taken with a Canon 70D camera and a 18-400mm lens set at 400mm with a 2x teleconverter making a focal length of 1280mm. A glass solar filter was attached to the lens for safe imaging of Sun. Twelve images were stacked in RegiStax6 with exposure times of 1/500th second and ISO100.

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Moon Phases 2021 – Southern Hemisphere – 4K

1/5/2021

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Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2021, as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites, maria, and other albedo features in sunlight.

Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Data visualization by Ernie Wright (USRA) Producer & Editor - David Ladd (USRA)

Music Provided by Universal Production Music: "Fly To The Moon" - Thomas Edward Sheppard

This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4875

If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer

~ Discover & Explore your Amazing Moon in 2021 ~

This is the way we see the Moon in the Southern Hemisphere here in Australia
Yes, it’s upside down :-o
Now isn’t that a surprise to people who live in the Northern Hemisphere :-)

I’ve marked a lot of the main features on the surface for you to find and explore with your binoculars or telescope Enjoy and have fun!

~ Image taken with a Meade 10inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope Credit: Noeleen Lowndes

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ABC Science: Take a tour of the January night sky in 2021

1/2/2021

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ABC Science 1st January 2020
By: Genelle Weule

~ Stars, galaxies, dust clouds and Uranus: take a tour of the January night sky ~

Genelle Weule (Science writer for ABC) has written another excellent article on the wonderful objects you can see in the January sky, but don’t worry if you don’t catch them in January as they will still be on show for the next couple of months as they head down into the western sky.

I was very happy to have been asked to contribute my images again for this article; you will also see some beautiful images in the article from my fellow SAS astro friend Dylan O’Donnell.

Dylan’s YouTube Channel is at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgOf4wBnoGg8WHHHr_h4otQ

So hop off your comfortable lounge, grab a star chart, binoculars or telescope and have a lot of fun exploring the night sky in your own garden with family and friends :-)

Other helpful tools to help find your way around the night are a FREE app called ‘Star Chart’ at: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/star-chart/id345542655

Or download or print a FREE sky chart at Skymaps.com at:
http://www.skymaps.com
*If you’re in Australia make sure you download the star chart for the Southern Hemisphere*

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~ The Spotless Sun on the 14th January 2021 ~

Moon Phases 2021 – Southern Hemisphere – 4K

~ Discover & Explore your Amazing Moon in 2021 ~

ABC Science: Take a tour of the January night sky in 2021

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ABC Science: Take a tour of the January night sky in 2021

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