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The Eagle Nebula (M16) The cloudy weather lately has been bad news for聽Friday Night Star Parties聽but it has given us some time to reduce a back-log of鈥�

Supernova Impostors The聽UIS Barber Observatory聽has taken advantage of the clear weather patterns and our new wide-field U42 camera to follow the brightness鈥�

Pictures of the Moon On May 30 we took a series of pictures of the Moon with our wide-field CCD camera on our 20-inch telescope. Below is the image we鈥�

Transit of Venus Star Party on June 5, 2012 We will be hosting a special day-time star party at Southwind Park from 5pm to sunset in Springfield, IL to鈥�

First Light on New CCD Camera (March 2012) The image of the galaxy M81 above is the 鈥渇irst-light鈥� image taken by the new U42 CCD camera at the UIS鈥�

The following is an excerpt from a column by University of 缅北禁地 Springfield Associate Professor of Astronomy-Physics John Martin. This column appeared in鈥�