SUNSET: 
January 7 - 13, 2013
[skyweekvid id="qg18628k"]Auriga the Charioteer is nearly overhead in the evening sky. Its prominent pentagon includes dazzling Capella, meaning She Goat, the sixth brightest star in the night sky.
Product Videos & Demonstrations
Apogee Imaging Systems at AIC 2012
Tony Flanders S&T senior editor Dennis di Cicco and Apogee Imaging Systems’ Wayne Brown talk about the company’s new Aspen CCD cameras, as well as recent improvements made to other cameras and filter wheels. Return to the Advanced Imaging Conference 2012 page. Return to our Product Videos page.
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Advanced Imaging Conference 2012
Watch Dennis di Cicco's recent interview with Apogee Imaging Systems’ president Wayne Brown at the 2012 Advanced Imaging Conference.
Dec. 31, 2012 - Jan. 6, 2013
[skyweekvid id="a49o77lm"]A splendid vista of bright stars and one dazzling planet greets stargazers on the stroke of the New Year. And two remarkable stars that vary in brightness are high in the northwest.
December 24 - 30, 2012
[skyweekvid id="g3xui089"]The Moon pairs spectacularly with Jupiter on the evening of Christmas Day, December 25th. And Sirius, the night sky’s brightest star, is at its highest at midnight as the year winds to its end.
December 17 - 23, 2012
[skyweekvid id="dob227s9"]Winter starts on Friday, and coincidentally the ancient Mayan calendar flips over to a new “baktun.” Contrary to the doomsayers, nothing unusual will happen. But some astronomical phenomena are genuinely dangerous.
December 10 - 16, 2012
[skyweekvid id="a277kts7"]The Geminid meteor shower will be strongest from Thursday evening through Friday morning, though more meteors than usual will fall all week. Conditions are perfect this year, with no Moon to blind you to the faintest meteors.
December 3 - 9, 2012
[skyweekvid id="oupnstl7"]Three of the sky’s finest star formations are climbing the southeastern sky. The Pleaides lead the way, then Jupiter with the Hyades, and magnificent Orion rounds out the group.
November 26 - December 2, 2012
[skyweekvid id="l8ljf459"]Saturn glows very close to brilliant Venus before sunrise on Monday, November 26th. And the Moon is spectacularly close to bright Jupiter on Wednesday evening.
November 19 - 25, 2012
[skyweekvid id="b380ci5q"]Dazzling Jupiter blazes near the sky’s two most spectacular star clusters — the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, and the Hyades, the closest rich star cluster to Earth.
November 12 - 18, 2012
[skyweekvid id="eii1wl60"]A superthin Moon floats below Venus before sunrise on Monday, November 12th. And you might be able to spot the reborn crescent on Wednesday or Thursday evening.
November 5 - 11, 2012
[skyweekvid id="t2x7jadc"]The Andromeda Galaxy is on fine display these evenings. It’s the most distant object you’re likely to see without binoculars or a telescope, but it’s right next door in cosmic terms.
October 29 - November 4, 2012
[skyweekvid id="l2cqf8d0"]Jupiter’s four biggest moons are whole worlds in their own right. They include the most active volcanoes known and a suspected habitat for life.
October 22 - 28, 2012
[skyweekvid id="apwz57qx"]The Moon, our closest neighbor in space, is amazing to the unaided eye and binoculars. Its surface reveals a lot about Earth’s history, too.
October 15 - 21, 2012
[skyweekvid id="yrb7mcpy"]The constellations Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Perseus are linked in Greek mythology by a wonderful story.
October 8 - 14, 2012
[skyweekvid id="g68p187x"]Cassiopeia and Perseus are the prime constellations of the autumn Milky Way. And they’re home to some of the sky’s finest star clusters.
October 1 - 7, 2012
[skyweekvid id="s25ti87s"]The constellations of the Great Sea spill from the jug of Aquarius, the Water Carrier. And Neptune, the outermost planet, is in Aquarius now.
September 24 - 30, 2012
[skyweekvid id="p3lw9n4y"]The elegant but little-known constellation Draco the Dragon lies coiled around the Little Dipper, with its head high in the sky.
September 17 - 23, 2012
[skyweekvid id="c8905s76"]The planet Uranus is extraordinarily close to a similarly bright star. Uranus was discovered in 1781 by an amateur astronomer named William Herschel.
September 10 - 16, 2012
[skyweekvid id="j2ke6757"]Cygnus the Swan flies high overhead. The Great Rift that splits the Milky Way in two starts near the heart of Cygnus.
