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Double star news and articles

 

Articles

    • Measurements of nine Southern double stars
    • You know you are a double star observer when…
    • Double star challenge – Beta Muscae
    • Double stars in Carina
    • Four double stars in Crux

News items

        • A sharp eye on Southern binary stars – new speckle imaging techniques

Double Star of the Month

2015

        • HJ 3683 in Dorado – February double star of the month
        • Gamma Caeli – January double star of the month

2014

        • Beta Orionis – December double star of the month
        • Beta Tucanae – November double star of the month
        • Gamma Piscis Austini – October double star of the month
        • Beta Sagittarii – September double star of the month
        • Nu Scorpii – July double star of the month
        • Mu Crucis – May double star of the month
        • Delta Centauri – April double star of the month (2014 March 27)
        • Alpha Crucis – March double star of the month (2014 February 24)
        • Gamma Volantis – February double star of the month (2014 January 25)
        • sigma Orionis (STF772) – January double star of the month (2013 December 27)

2013

      • Dunlop 8 – December double star of the month (2013 November 20)

Big 5 of the African Sky

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Publications

Sky Guide 2022 MNASSA Nightfall CAM Notes Southern Skies Flickr

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Database of Amateur Astronomy Associations in Africa is now online!

We have created a map where you can zoom in, and click on any of the associations to know more about it, click here for the Interactive Map

You can download the entire database (v1, as of April 2020), as well as register your group

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