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        <a  href="/news/transit-venus-star-party-june-5-2012">Transit  of  Venus  Star  Party  on  June  5,  2012</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">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  view  the  rare  Transit  of  Venus  event  on  Tuesday,  June  5,  2012.  



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        <a  href="/news/pictures-moon">Pictures  of  the  Moon</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">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  produced.</div>
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        <a  href="/news/supernova-impostors">Supernova  Impostors</a>
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The UIS  Barber  Observatory has  taken  advantage  of  the  clear  weather  patterns  and  our  new  wide-field  U42  camera  to  follow  the  brightness  variations  of  suspected supernova  impostors in  distant  galaxies.</div>
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        <a  href="/news/eagle-nebula-m16">The  Eagle  Nebula  (M16)</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">The  Eagle  Nebula  (M16)



The  cloudy  weather  lately  has  been  bad  news  for Friday  Night  Star  Parties but  it  has  given  us  some  time  to  reduce  a  back-log  of  pretty  pictures  the UIS  Barber  Observatory took  over  the  summer.  Below  is  an  image  of  the Eagle  Nebula  (M16)  in  the  constellation  Serpens.</div>
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        <a  href="/news/wild-duck-cluster-m11">The  Wild  Duck  Cluster  (M11)</a>
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        <div  class="newsletter-txt">The  Wild  Duck  Cluster  (M11)



This  open  star  cluster  in  the  Milky  Way  is  well  known  to  amateur  astronomers  as  a  particularly  rich  and  colorful  cluster.  &nbsp;The  colors  reveal  the  temperatures  of  the  stars,  with  blue  stars  being  hotter  and  red  stars  being  cooler.  &nbsp;Below  is  an  image  produced  from  a  series  of  exposures  taken  by  the  20-inch  telescope  at  the  UIS  Barber  Observatory  on  June  11,  2013.  &nbsp;  This  cluster  contains  about  2900  stars  and  has  an  estimated  age  of  220  million  years  (very  young  when  we  consider  our  own  Sun  is  at  least  4  billion  years  old).</div>
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