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Chicago Astronomers - Working to save the Hubble telescope...

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27 67 Hubble Captures Comet ISON
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Public Observation Session on the 2nd Friday of each month at the 606 Trail...

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A place to plan, execute and evaluate group Star Party Observation Sessions...

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294 2,304 Chicago Astronomer in Evanston - Saturday 07 Sept 2024
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Details on the joint public Star Parties of the Chicago Astronomer and the Chicago Park District

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2013: The Year of the Comet - Chicago Astronomer Comet Catchers

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3 23 Comet ISON Interactive Simulator
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218 961 Saturn Opposes Sun 2024 SEP 07-08
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Combining Camping & Darker sky Astronomy

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Prepare for this Month's events now...

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18 22 December 2007 Astronomical Data
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Monitor and Observe Planetary, Stellar and Lunar Mechanics in motion and play amongst each other...

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130 721 Moon Occults Spica - 2024 NOV 27 - North America
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All Lunar, All The Time...

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216 997 Widest Full Moon is Not Necessarily the Brightest
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Outreach by the American Association of Variable Star Observers on the 27.1 year eclipse event

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In the Cold Vacuum of Space, you'll laugh at anything...

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43 116 Animaniacs, the Solar System, and the Universe
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47 229 ISO Scientific/Astronomical Date Format
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146 318 Adler Staff Preview new Sky show - 30 April 2014...
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323 2,096 Astroscan and the Chicago Astronomer - 17 November 2024
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3 3 Quick List of Our Equipment - Rev 29 June 2004
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47 379 Making a Solar filter for the 152mm Refractor 0 15 Mar 24+
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381 1,148 Part of North American Nebula from Deefield Illinois
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Inner Space examined during Cloud filled skies via macro photography and microscopes

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284 773 ESA may soon send its next mission to Mercury
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Cassini-Huygens Exploring the Ringed Planet...

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58 267 Exceptional Space Station Pass tonight - 02 October 2023
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Attempting to understand the Mechanics of the Universe...

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72 194 The Fate of the Crew..(Warning-Sensitive Material)
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Earth Based Phenomenon...

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43 150 Aerosols: Airborne particles in Earth's atmosphere
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There's more to life than scopes and star charts...or is there?

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My activitites and adventures with the Chicago Yelp crew.

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Science Fiction Chronicles

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Your Views on The Best and Worse of Sci-Fi Cinema...

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49 208 The City Dark - let's go see this!
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Strange and Unusual Astronomy

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Knowledge of Historical Astronomers Explored...

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30 126 Copernicus remains(?) found in Polish Cathedral
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Exploring the Unknown, the Unexplained and Fringe with an open mind...

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