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The Dark Sky Observatory (DSO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Appalachian State University (ASU). It is located 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) east of Deep Gap, North Carolina (USA), off of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and 32 kilometers (20 miles) east of the ASU campus in Boone, North Carolina It was established in 1981, and is used for research, instruction, and public viewing ...
As reports of drone sightings continue in New Jersey and across the East Coast, people are reporting seeing strange objects in the central North Carolina sky as well.
Winter constellations as seen from the tropics Flip book (158 images): Transit of Mars, Sun, Mercury, and Venus in 2017. The Winter Hexagon is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern Hemisphere's celestial sphere.
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The Winter Triangle is an astronomical asterism formed from three of the brightest stars in the winter sky. It is an imaginary isosceles triangle [a] drawn on the celestial sphere, with its defining vertices at Sirius, Betelgeuse, and Procyon, the primary stars in the three constellations of Canis Major, Orion, and Canis Minor, respectively. [1]
At 65 degrees long and 40 degrees wide, the Winter Football covers almost half of the southern sky. 'Winter Football' constellation to be visible Super Bowl night. Here's where to look
A once in a generation star explosion is expected to occur over South Carolina skies soon. ... Northern Hemisphere’s summer sky. T Coronae Borealis will be found in the constellation Corona ...
The constellation's three-letter abbreviation, as adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1922, is "Ori". [2] Orion is most visible in the evening sky from January to April, [3] winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and summer in the Southern Hemisphere.