Science
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY PROCESSING
Reduce star trailing in your astro images, An easy processing tip to remedy stretched and unsharp stars
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Bring out the colours of stars
From reds to yellows to blues, here's how to reveal the subtle tones of stars in your images
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Build a zero-magnification finder
Make an illuminated aiming device you can use on any telescope
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The Columbia Space Shuttle disaster
Twenty years on, Amy Arthur looks back at fateful flight STS-107
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The man who put the Sun at the CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE
This month marks 550 years since the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus. Emily Winterburn explores his life and legacy
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
OBSERVING VARIABLE STARS
Pete Lawrence is your guide to viewing variable stars so you can record their changes in brightness
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Expansion and gravity
Though the Universe is expanding, gravity helps keep it together
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Does the Universe expand faster than light?
Govert Schilling continues to explain cosmology's confusing concepts In part 2 of our series
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
DEEP-SKY TOUR
We'll start in Orion's Sword where M42, the Orion Nebula, takes pride of place. Magnificent through any instrument, smaller scopes give a lovely overview of this fourth-magnitude nebula, easily revealing the bright kidney-shaped 'core' within which the tightly packed stars of the Trapezium Cluster are embedded.
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
THE SKY GUIDE CHALLENGE
Can you beat Sirius's glare to identify its faint companion the Pup Star?
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
BINOCULAR TOUR With Steve Tonkin
This month we're off to a dog show, finding the best in class in Canis Major
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
STAR OF THE MONTH
Muscida, the nose of the Great Bear, Ursa Major
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
COMETS AND ASTEROIDS
Fingers crossed for comet C/2022 E3 ZTF reaching naked-eye visibility this month
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Fra Mauro
Fra Mauro is a quintessential example of a walled plain. Measuring 96km in diameter and 800m in depth, its ancient form can be located east of 300km Mare Cognitum, the sea that has become known’.
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Jupiter
Jupiter is rapidly losing ground to the evening twilight, appearing 29° above the southwest horizon under deep twilight conditions at the start of the month, but reaching only 12° above the western horizon by the time we reach the end of the month.
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Favourable southwest lunar libration
BEST TIME TO SEE: 9-16 February
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Venusian encounters
BEST TIME TO SEE: From 15 February, after sunset
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF
BEST TIME TO SEE: 8-23 February
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Chelyabinsk 10 years on
In 2013 Ezzy Pearson visited the site of a massive meteor explosion. A decade later she looks back at what we learned from the event
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
First date with a DSLR
Taking nightscapes and Star trails with a DSLR camera Is a great way to get started In astrophotography. Stuart Atkinson gives his best tips for beginners
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
FIELD OF VIEW
When the cosmos changes history, Jonathan Powell tracks celestial events that have altered world affairs
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
CBeebies Stargazing
There is no episode of The Sky at Night in February, but there is a wealth of astronomy and stargazing content on the BBC iPlayer that's suitable for children and young astronomers.
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Looking back: The Sky at Night
18 February 1976,
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT
In The Sky at Night's last episode of 2022, Douglas Vakoch looked into how humanity could reach out and contact other worlds
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Expansion leads to increased tension
JWST observations seem to confirm cosmology's biggest conundrum
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
JWST reveals active exoplanet atmospheres
The telescope has found evidence of atmospheric reactions above an exoplanet
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Japan heads to the Moon
Hakuto-R, a commercial lunar lander from Japanese company iSpace, launched on 11 December and entered lunar orbit three days later.
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Early galaxies lack cold hydrogen glow
A missing radio signal narrows down theories about infant galaxies
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Splashdown for Artemis
The Orion capsule successfully splashed down into the Pacific Ocean on 11 December at 9:40 am PST Pacific Standard Time), completing Artemis the first test flight in a programme to return humans to the Moon's surface.
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February 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Are extended cycles shaping sunspots?
Twin 17-year solar cycles could be controlling the Sun's activity
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