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> * * * SKY & TELESCOPE's WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN - July 8, 2005 * * *
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> Welcome to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin. Images, the full stories abridged
> here, and other enhancements are on our Web site, SkyandTelescope.com, at
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> AMATEUR DETECTS PLANET 260 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY
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> One day before an international team announced that a planet periodically
> crosses the face of an 8th-magnitude star in Hercules, California amateur
> astronomer Ron Bissinger recorded a partial transit of the planet at his
> home observatory. He also detected partial transits during the next two
> opportunities, allowing him to produce a composite light curve of a
> complete event. The new find is now the third transiting exoplanet to be
> detected by amateurs....
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> > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1543_1.asp
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> THE COMET AFTER DEEP IMPACT
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> In the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission-control room, cheers and shouts
> erupted as Deep Impact's brilliant crash site suddenly burst forth on the
> gray, lumpy nucleus of Comet Tempel 1. But for most telescopic observers,
> 83 million miles removed from the action, it was a different story. The
> sudden flare-up that appeared so brilliant on the 5-mile-diameter comet
> nucleus was mostly hidden in the unresolved glow of the comet's
> thousands-of-miles-wide coma. And that was if you could see the faint
> comet at all.
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> To observers with large telescopes and good skies, however, a change in
> the comet became apparent within minutes....
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> > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/article_1540_1.asp
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> HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK'S SKY
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> * Bright Venus and faint Mercury remain paired low in the west in bright
> twilight.
> * The Moon shines left of Jupiter on Wednesday the 13th and left of Spica
> on Thursday the 14th.
> * First-quarter Moon on the 14th.
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> > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance
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