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Star Radio is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting on 100.7 MHz in Cambridge, 107.1 MHz in Ely, 107.3 MHz in Saffron Walden, and 107.9 MHz in Haverhill. [ 1 ] History
Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook – Ed. Ian Ridpath (stars to magnitude 6.5) Stars & Planets Guide – Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion (stars to magnitude 6.0) [11] Cambridge Double Star Atlas – James Mullaney and Wil Tirion (stars to magnitude 7.5) Cambridge Atlas of Herschel Objects – James Mullaney and Wil Tirion (stars to ...
Originally a graphic designer, Tirion became a full-time celestial cartographer after the success of his first star atlas, Sky Atlas 2000.0, published in 1981. [1] His second major work, Uranometria 2000.0 , contained over 280,000 stars and 10,000 deep-sky objects across two volumes and was published by Willmann-Bell in 1987.
On the night of July 16–17, 1850, Whipple and Bond made the first daguerreotype of a star (Vega). Harvard College Observatory is historically important to astronomy, as many women including Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Williamina Fleming, and Florence Cushman performed pivotal stellar classification ...
Mugar was born March 5, 1901, in Kharpert (Harpoot) [1] in the Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), of Armenian parents. His father, Sarkis, and mother, Vosgitel, and his two sisters, Alice and Mary, whose family name was shortened from Mugardichian, were Armenians who came to the United States from the Ottoman Empire in 1906 to join his father's brothers who ...
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Didier Patrick Queloz FRS (French pronunciation: [didje kəlo, kelo]; born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss astronomer.He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, [1] where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor at the University of Geneva. [2]
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