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Submitted by bkloppenborg on July 12, 2011 - 11:15am

About a month ago I wrote a post discussing what I'm doing with some astrometric data from the Sproul Observatory. This week I'm happy to report I have the paper almost entirely written and am working out the last few kinks in the analysis. It's been...

Submitted by Dr.Bob on July 10, 2011 - 2:14pm

Photometric observer Richard Miles reported a V band magnitude of 3.02 for epsilon Aurigae this past week, which essentially matches the pre-eclipse average and signals the end of optical eclipse (4th contact).  The long march through eclipse is over.  However, we still need your observations for at least the balance of this year in...

Submitted by Aaron Price on June 29, 2011 - 2:06pm

Dr. Elizabeth Griffin, an esteemed astronomer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, recently contributed a forum post about her analysis of hundreds of spectra from the 1956 and 1983 eclipses.

The following bio for Dr. Griffin is from...

Submitted by Aaron Price on June 27, 2011 - 3:56am

This week we updated the Spanish translation of our 10-Star Visual Observing Tutorial for southern hemisphere observers. We'd like to also remind new members of the 10-Star Tutorial - a great training tool for those with no background in variable star observation.

We also have a 5-Star tutorial for time series data analysis that uses our...

Submitted by bkloppenborg on June 21, 2011 - 12:39am

On behalf of my coauthors I am pleased to announce that Tom Pearson, Brian Kloppenborg, and Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein will have an article in tomorrow's release of The Classroom...

Submitted by bkloppenborg on June 9, 2011 - 4:02pm

It's not that often that I put up two blog posts in the same day, but I couldn't wait for this one.  In the past I've had trouble answering the question of "what has astronomy done for me" or "how can pure research benefit the economy."  

Well, today I have a clear example of how something from astronomy is...

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