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At its heart is the seventh magnitude ‘‘Bond’s Star’’—an unusually bright OB star creating a matter-bound Stromgren sphere! 21a. The Orion Nebula complex: M42 and M43 (credit— Palomar Observatory, courtesy of Caltech). 21b. Bengt Str¨ omgren (historical image). January, 2009 31 Thursday, January 22 Start the astronomical day by observing the 1592 birth on this date of Pierre Gassendi, French scientist, mathematician, philosopher. and the first to use a Galilean telescope to observe a Mercury transit by the projection method.

They were hidden behind other craters, ridges, and old, worndown mounds. .. It looked like we were in a large group of sand dunes. ’’ Have a look for yourself at this awesome area of lunar landscape. It will be years before the Fra Mauro area again appears close to the terminator on the very same date Apollo 14 made history there! 5a. Apollo 14 landing site (credit—Wes Higgins). 5b. Apollo 14 on the Moon (credit—NASA). February, 2009 47 Friday, February 6 This date marks the 1991 fiery return of the Soviet space station Salyut 7.

The year 1730 saw the birth of Jean Bochart— publisher of LaPlace’s planet/ecliptic theory. Although eventually beheaded for his politics, Bochart put together Europe’s largest collection of astronomical instruments and was renowned for his calculations of cometary orbits, made jointly with long-time friend and co-observer Charles Messier. Tonight, venture into Lepus for a faint, round, fuzzy object that might easily be mistaken for a comet in a small telescope or binoculars—Messier Object 79 (RA 05 24 10 Dec +24 31 27).

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