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Smart Telescope For Beginners
With surprising ease, a smart telescope delivers remarkable images for a newcomer to the night sky. With a Seestar S50 telescope the user needs only to level the telescope and then wait a couple minutes for the scope to initialize. It then starts gathering 10-second images consecutively and stacking them to make a brighter resulting image. Wow. Of course, you can opt to gather many more raw images (longer exposure times) and do your own processing (a new learning curve),
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Use the Moon to Find America's Semiquincentennial Star
While stars and stripes will be prominent during America's 250th Anniversary celebration, one star in the night sky has special significance. Shining brightly at 250 light years away, Spica is America's Semiquincentennial Star . Light that left Spica in 1776--traveling at 186,000 miles per second --is just now reaching our eyes. For a visceral Semiquincentennial experience in 2026, find Spica, then contemplate your and America's place in the firmament. To find Spica, follo
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