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Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid
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Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid

October 7, 2013

Kamuela, HI -- Combining observations from the world’s largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87)... Read more »

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Exploring New Worlds

April 5, 2010

UC Berkeley planet hunter Geoff Marcy watches the sun set from the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea. Credit: WMKO. Geoff Marcy, an astronomer at UC Berkeley, began searching for worlds beyond our Solar... Read more »

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The sky is ready for MOSFIRE and ESI. Our observers from CIT-Y and ANU are also ready. Sun set 06:53:00pm rise 05:47:00am
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Solved: mysteries of a nearby planetary system bit.ly/1jG0bs8
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Keck 1 MOSFIRE is scheduled with UH observers. Keck 2 ESI is scheduled for UCSD observers. Sun set 06:53:00pm rise 05:48:00am
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Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | Research | A Dance of Black Holes bit.ly/1mAH4VO
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@CrewChief75 There's two problems: No eye piece (and often no camera hooked up); and the data belongs to the astronomer for 18 months.
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