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Kuiper Belt asteroid discovered by HOU students at
Northfield Mount Hermon and Oil City High Schools.

The images at left contain the Kuiper Belt asteroid discovered by HOU students at Northfield Mount Hermon and Oil City High Schools. The red arrows point to the asteroid in each image. The images were taken about an hour and a half apart. The fact that the asteroid had moved so little in that time was a hint that this object was farther away than asteroids in the main belt.

See also: the HOU Asteroid Search page, and Northfield Mount Hermon Astronomy page [follow the link entitled "Our Kuiper Belt Discovery"].

Supernova 2005CS
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 M 51 Supernova (three color composite) Taken during NOAO's TLRBSE program, Kitt Peak. SN is tiny yellow dot just above the galactic core in the first spiral arm. Submitted by HOU TRA Glenn Reagan, Astronomy-Physics Teacher, Cordova High School Folsom Lake College - El Dorado Center, Sacramento City College

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Photo shows Judith Goldhaber with HOU founder, Carl Pennypacker, and Stephen Hawking after a reception in his honor that featured the Oakland Symphony chorus performing some songs from "Falling Through a Hole in the Air (by Judith Goldhaber with HOU founder, Carl Pennypacker). Stephen is writing "That was really good!!!" on his eyebrow-activated writing/speaking computer.

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Comet McNaught

21 Jan 2007: Kaoru Kimura, HOU TRA from Tokyo reports now we can see comet McNaught in the southern hemisphere after sunset.
The i-Can project team has a web cam (constellation camera called i-CAN) in Chile. Everyone can access our website and watch setting comet McNaught. I did image capture and made web page at http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~kaoru07

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M16 - First light image using the 32" F/4 scope of Astronomical Research Institute (ARI). The exposure time is 4" to keep from blooming the bright stars in the field with the STL 1001E. We expect to put in a 1.5x photographic Barlow field flattener tomorrow to operate at F/6. F/8 is p[ossible using a 2x photographic Barlow. Limiting magnitude should be 21.5 (in 5min). Currently 20.6 (in 30 sec). By Bob Holmes. See ARI website

From Kitanomaru Internet Telescope (KIT) on the rooftop of Science Museum of Tokyo (Kitanomaru Park, Chiyoda, Tokyo): MARS rendezvous with the MOON, 9 September, 2003 11:30(UT)

Animation of the moon appearing 6 minutes north of the MARS.

Two images of Mars taken on August 5th, 2003, 30 minutes apart: 1:11 am to 1:46 am CST. 

Yerkes 24 inch telescope, Apogee AP7p CCD. 

More Mars Animations

Vivian L. Hoette
University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory
373 West Geneva St., Williams Bay, WI 53191

Kuiper Belt asteroid discovered by HOU students at Northfield Mount Hermon and Oil City High Schools.

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Image of M1, Crab Nebula, by a special needs student working with HOU TRA Mike Ford using a 20" telescope at Elk Creek Observatory near Holton, Kansas.