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  2. Amateur astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Amateur astronomy is a hobby where participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes. Even though scientific research may not be their primary goal, some amateur astronomers make contributions in doing citizen science, such as by monitoring variable stars, [1] double stars, [2 ...

  3. Astrophotography - Wikipedia

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    Astrophotography is a popular hobby among photographers and amateur astronomers. Techniques ranges from basic film and digital cameras on tripods up to methods and equipment geared toward advanced imaging. Amateur astronomers and amateur telescope makers also use homemade equipment and modified devices.

  4. Nik Szymanek - Wikipedia

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    Nik Szymanek. Nicholas Szymanek, better known as Nik Szymanek, is a British amateur astronomer and prolific astrophotographer, based in Essex, England. [1] Originally a train driver in the London Underground, he began his interest in astronomical CCD imaging shortly before 1991. His interest in this kind of observational astronomy rose in 1991 ...

  5. Jack B. Newton - Wikipedia

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    Newton was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada from 1975 to 1976. [6] He was elected as a Life Member in 1978. His photos appear on the cover of the 2007 Observer’s Handbook and in the RASC calendar. The Victoria Center created a "Newton/Ball" (Jack Newton/George Ball) award which it gives annually as a service award.

  6. John Dobson (amateur astronomer) - Wikipedia

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    John Dobson (amateur astronomer) John Dobson in 2002. John Lowry Dobson (14 September 1915 – 15 January 2014) was an American amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. [3] He was also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy (and his unorthodox views of ...

  7. Donald C. Parker - Wikipedia

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    Donald C. Parker, also known as Don Parker (January 28, 1939 – February 22, 2015), [ 1] was an American physician and amateur astronomer, specializing in the research of the Solar System and planetary photography. Many of his over 20,000 images of Mars were used by professional astronomers at NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and some ...

  8. Cat's Eye Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Cat's Eye Nebula (also known as NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786. It was the first planetary nebula whose spectrum was investigated by the English amateur astronomer William Huggins, demonstrating that planetary nebulae were gaseous and ...

  9. Richard Christopher Carrington - Wikipedia

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    Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875) [2] was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun.

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