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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�

Nearby Galaxy M33 This is a composite image of the galaxy M33 in the constellation Triangulum.  It is a collection of 40 billion stars about 3 million鈥�

Perseid Meteor Star Party August 11/12 The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield Astronomy-Physics Program is co-hosting a viewing of the Perseid Meteor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�