MVNSC: Mississippi Valley Night Sky Conservation: Stars and Star Clusters Within the Milky Way: Program developed by: Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Ottawa Astronomy Friends Instructor: Pat Browne Assistants: Andrew Lindstrom, Bob Hillie

February –  Orion’s Stellar Distances by Pat Browne Orion’s Sword contains the Trapezium – an asterism containing 4 Stars embedded in Nebulousity Constellation of Orion - Line below the Belt Stars contains Orion Nebula Closeup view in a telescope of the Orion N

by Pat Browne January – Good Month for Night Sky Conservation Observing the Night Sky in the middle of January is not an easy thing to do –  due to the extreme cold and amount of snow in the Mississippi Valley Conservation Area. It can also be cloudy, with snow squalls com

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Telescopes – Winter Solstice Seasonings by Pat Browne Winter solstice marks our Northern Hemisphere’s  shortest day and longest night of the year, when the sun’s daily maximum elevation in the sky is the lowest .You can see this effect during these days,  on a clear

New  monthly  webcasts capture interesting images for all November 1st 2013 marked the implementation of the streaming webcast of the Observer’s Group Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC), Ottawa Centre, which is held the first Friday of every month. I had

Night Sky News Fall 2013 The constellation Delphinus the Dolphin  which is visible in the late Summer and early Fall is the area in the sky where a star went into a nova type explosion. The event was first detected by an amateur astronomer.  We were able to pick up the spectra showing

 Venus (the planet)  at Sunset You may be wondering what very bright object appears on the western horizon near sunset. It’s not a star, satellite or airplane . It’s the planet Venus. Venus does not always appear at  sunset. It does not have a fixed location in the sky, th