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    BBC Sky at Night
    EDITORIAL Editor Chris Bramley Content Editor Iain Todd Features Editor Ezzy Pearson Art Editor Steve Marsh Production Editor Jess Wilder Reviews Editor Charlotte Daniels CONTRIBUTORS Stuart Atkinson, Ethan Chappel, Lewis Dartnell, Glenn Dawes, Russe
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    Deep-sky Tour
    We start with globular cluster NGC 5466. Listed at mag. +9.2, the core of this 9-arcminute-across globular isn't as bright as it could be and its overall appearance is of an object with a low surface brightness. It's relatively easy to spot with smal
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    The Night Sky — April
    1 April at 01:00 BST 15 April at 00:00 BST 30 April at 23:00 BST On other dates, stars will be in slightly different positions because of Earth's orbital motion. Stars that cross the sky will set in the west four minutes earlier each night. 1. Hold t
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    The Surfaces Of Planets
    Age: Up to 4 billion years Space rocks collected on Earth reveal how old our planet is, but the scars they leave behind upon impact also show the age of the planet's surface. Space rocks are constantly crashing into each other throughout the Solar Sy
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    Jupiter
    PICK OF THE MONTH Best time to see: 1 April, from 19:20 UT Altitude: 23° Location: Aries Direction: West Features: Complex markings, Galilean moons Recommended equipment: 100mm scope or larger None of the planets are particularly well-placed this mon
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    April Highlights
    The first half of April provides good, Moon-free opportunities to attempt this month's Deep-Sky Tour on page 56. This month we're looking at objects close to the border of Boötes and Coma Berenices. Possibly naked-eye comet 12P/Pons– Brooks will be v
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    Black Hole Is Brightest Object Ever Seen
    A hugely bright object known as a quasar has now been confirmed as not just the brightest known example of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. A quasar forms when the accretion disc of gas and dust around a supermassive black h
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    Astrophotography Gallery
    FREE BONUS CONTENT Find our extended Gallery at www.skyatnightmagazine.com/ bonus-content Graham Prescott, St Albans, Hertfordshire, December 2023–January 2024 Graham says: “I wanted to capture the entire nebula, but it was much larger than my field
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    Step By Step
    To observe and image the sunset eclipse on 8 April, you'll need to be towards the west of the UK – the further west the better (see page 46 for details). As the event occurs at sunset, a low western horizon is recommended too, preferably one over the
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    April Clair-obscur Effects
    BEST TIME TO SEE: As stated There are numerous lunar clair-obscur (shadow and light) effects visible this month. On the morning of 16 April, as the Moon approaches setting, the Lunar X and Lunar V effects should be visible. Later that evening, the St
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    Welcome
    On 8 April, a total eclipse will sweep a spectacular shadow across Central and North America. The path of totality makes landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico in Sinaloa before moving into the US in Texas, crossing into eastern Canada, and leaving
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    Masuyama 1.25-inch 53° eyepieces
    VITAL STATS • Price £185 each (for sizes 5mm –20mm), £195 each (for 25mm and 30mm) • Focal lengths 5mm, 7.5mm, 10mm, 12.5mm, 15mm, 20mm, 25mm, 30mm • Lens design Ortho Plössl • Apparent field of view 53° • Eye relief 4mm, 5mm, 7mm, 8mm, 9mm, 13mm, 16
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    News In Brief
    ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission has passed a thorough review to ensure the project is viable, allowing it to move forward into full development. The mission will hunt gravitational waves using three spacecraft flying in format
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    A Partial Solar Eclipse At Sunset
    CAUTION Never observe or image the Sun with the naked eye or any unfiltered optical instrument As you'll see elsewhere this issue, there's a total solar eclipse visible across North America this month. The USA's second in five years will mean they ar
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    What's On
    Royal College Building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 18 April, 7:30pm The Astronomical Society of Glasgow presents a talk by Dr Benjamin Bose, a cosmologist from the University of Edinburgh whose research interests include dark matter and modi
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    New Astronomy And Space Titles Reviewed BOOKS
    Chris Lintott Torva £22 •HB If you like Chris Lintott as co-host of the BBC's The Sky at Night, you're guaranteed to also like him as a writer. In this, his second book, he eloquently guides us through a wide range of fascinating astronomical topics,
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    Charlotte Daniels Rounds Up The Latest Astronomical Accessories GEAR
    Price £46 • Supplier Bresser UK www.bresseruk.com Accurate polar alignment is vital for sharp stars. This lightweight compass contains a handy spirit level and altitude scale to help you find the Pole Star with ease. Suitable for Vixen Polarie, AP, S
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    Comet Pons-Brooks Drops In On Jupiter And The Total Eclipse
    There are many popular misconceptions in astronomy. For example, that Polaris, the Pole Star, is the brightest star in the sky (it's actually only the 48th-brightest), that the Plough is a constellation (it's an asterism – a small, eye-catching patte
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    Odysseus Makes Historic Landing On The Moon
    In the first US venture to the lunar surface since the Apollo 17 landing in 1972, the Odysseus lunar lander touched down on the Moon at 23:23 UTC on 22 February. The lander appears to have tipped over during the landing, but is operating well regardl
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    The Science Of Celestial Visitors
    Comets are essentially icy leftovers from the birth of the Solar System, around five billion years ago. They orbit the Sun like the planets do, held captive by its gravity. However, unlike planetary orbits, which are roughly circular, comet orbits ar
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    Tricky Conjunctions
    BEST TIME TO SEE: As stated The planets are not good for observing at present, all being located too close to the Sun to be seen well. This is an unusual situation, as they more commonly appear spread out across the sky. The flip side to poor spring
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    The Wide Blue Yonder
    HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 26 JANUARY 2024 The two blue beauties seen in this picture are NGC 5410 and UGC 8932, a pair of interacting galaxies that can be found some 180 million lightyears from Earth in the constellation of Canes Venatici. NGC 5410, th
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    Taking Out The Bins
    I'm a broadcaster, so I like to make sense of the world through words. I'm terrible with maths. Maths has the equivalent effect on my brain of trying to drive around Tokyo in an articulated lorry whilst high on peyote. Despite this arithmetic antipat
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    ‘Impossible’ Galaxy Found In Early Universe
    A galaxy that shouldn't exist is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how these enormous stellar structures grow in the early Universe. Despite its relative youth, recent observations of galaxy JWST 7329 have shown it has far more stars than it
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    Looking back: The Sky at Night 7 April 2008
    On the 7 April 2008 episode of The Sky at Night, Patrick Moore took a look at the European Space Agency's Ulysses mission, which had spent almost two decades studying the Sun. Unlike solar observation missions that had come before it, Ulysses didn't
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    Clear Moisture From Your Sensor
    Modern astrophotography cameras are technical marvels that produce exquisitely detailed and colourful images. However, they remain at the mercy of Mother Nature. Cameras designed for deep-sky imaging need to capture long exposures, and to help combat
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    The Solar System
    Age: 4.57 billion years From looking at infant planets in other systems, we know that worlds form at the same time as their stars. Both the Sun and all of the planets of our Solar System originated in clouds of gas and dust known as stellar nurseries
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    The Universe
    Age: 13.8 billion years The Universe began with the Big Bang, sending all the matter and energy of the Universe rushing outwards. It's been expanding ever since. If we could measure how fast this expansion is happening, in theory it should be possibl
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    Into The Bear's Den
    Spring hos come to the Northern Hemisphere. The great globe of the heavens has rolled on and the brilliant star clusters and nebulae of winter are sinking in the west. It's now that deep-sky observers turn their attention to the subtler marvels on th
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    News In Brief
    A batch of 85 possible exoplanets have been found that are all within their stars’ habitable zone, where liquid water could potentially persist. A new analysis technique on data taken by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) helped astr

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