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July 25th Observatory Public Night – Appreciation of Planet Earth By: NASA Astronaut Loren Shriver

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is the subject of this month’s Estes Valley Astronomical Society (EVAS) meeting. EVAS in conjunction with The Estes Park Memorial Observatory is offering a free public open house/star night on Saturday, July 25, 2015. The goal of EVAS is to … Continue reading →

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views of pluto through the years

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This animation combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades. The first frame is a digital zoom-in on Pluto as it appeared upon its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 (image courtesy Lowell Observatory Archives). The other images show various views of Pluto as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope beginning in the 1990s and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. The final sequence zooms in to a close-up frame of Pluto released on July 15, 2015.

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New Telescope for the Observatory

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Thanks to a very generous patron of the observatory, we  have replaced our venerable 20 year old 12” Meade LX 200 telescope with a brand new 16” Ritchey–Chrétien (RC) telescope!  A very good description of the telescope and all of … Continue reading →

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Rosetta Mission: Science Magazine “Breakthrough of the Year”

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“This year’s breakthrough captured the public’s imagination with a series of hard-won pictures, beamed to Earth from a place beyond Mars. First: an image of a spindly, three-legged thing, framed against the blackness of space, falling toward a comet nearly … Continue reading →

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