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To British television viewers, the name 'Patrick Moore' has been synonymous with Astronomy and Sp...

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In meno di due decenni l'astronomia amatoriale ha cambiato volto. Il motivo, naturalmente, è il p...

Le economiche webcam stanno rivoluzionando l'imaging astronomico amatoriale, fornendo un'alternat...

Supernova explosions, which mark the deaths of massive stars or of white dwarf stars in binary sy...

In the Victorian era - or for non-British readers, the mid-to-late nineteenth century - amateur a...

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When Mike Inglis, who consults for Springer, ? rst asked me to write a Caldwell book in their 'an...

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