Come for a ramble with me through one of the modern but obscure constellations in the southern hemisphere Antlia the Air Pump
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Come for a ramble with me through one of the prominent autumn constellations, in this episode I will be looking at Andromeda the Princess.
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We are sorry to hear that the enlightened Rajah of Travancore has ordered this well - known and useful Observatory to be dismantled. No cause is assigned. The late observer, Mr. Allan Brown, has received a retiring pension.
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Join me, Martin Lunn MBE every Monday evening from 7.00 pm-9.00 pm on the award-winning Astronomy Show on Drystone Radio, probably the only regular astronomy show on any radio station in the country.
I will take my weekly look at the night sky and look at all
the latest news in astronomy. There will be the astronomical anniversaries this
week plus the latest news from the astronomical societies in the north of
England.
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In the classic handbook of Descriptive Astronomy by G F Chanbers there are drawings from October 1865 showing a Great Sun Spot. The drawings were made by Brodie from his observatory at Uckfield in Sussex using an 8.5 inch Cooke.
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Nature January 4th 1877
Meteors of December 11th
M. Perrotin at the observatory of Toulouse,
observed a considerable number of meteors on the night of December 11th,
106 were counted. The majority of which radiated from a point near Pollux and
Castor in Gemini. The trajectories were very short, so that it was difficult to
refer them to a chart. The sky was overcast the following night.
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This constellation has been known since ancient times and is often represented as a fish drinking the flow of water from the urn of the neighbouring Aquarius the water bearer. The fish has been identified with the Babylonian fish god Oannes and is said to be the parent of the zodiacal fish Pisces.
Arabic astronomers called the constellation Al Hut al
Janubiyy or the Large Southern Fish.
There is only one bright star in Piscis Austrinus. Alpha or Fomalhaut which means the fish’s mouth. To some early Arabic astronomers, it was Al Difdi al Awwal or the First Frog. The Chinese knew the sat as Pi Lo Sze Mun the meaning is unknown.
is the most southerly
of the 1st magnitude stars from that can be seen from Britain, it is seen
autumn can be found by using the two right hand stars of the square of Pegasus.
Fomalhaut is of
magnitude 1.2 and is an A class star with a temperature of 8,000’C and lies at
a distance of 25 light years.
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