This video features a model of the Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO), located in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park. In 1968, astronomers combined signals from the ARO with those from the Dominion Astrophysical Radio Observatory in Penticton, British Columbia forming a new instrument called a Long Baseline Interferometer.

To learn more about Astronomy and Telescopes, visit the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/

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Some sections of the video are actually more than 120X, since I also used the zoom on the camera. Knowing that, there may have been segments of the video where the moon was around 200-250X (~2X zoom on camera).

Sorry for the shakiness, but the mechanism for moving the telescope has a small amount of vibration and it’s difficult to use a digital camera in this way. Hope you enjoy!

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The main reason for this is that there are a lot of stars in the sky. Try going to a dark place where there are no city lights and look up. You’ll see a lot more stars there than you would in the city. Now, imagine, how would you know which star to look? Or how could you even know the name of the star you are looking at? Hence, you have to know your stars before you start looking at them. And you can only do that by studying these guides.

Knowledge of the astronomy star guide is also important if you plan to embark on a career as an astronomer. Some new celestial bodies are actually discovered by amateurs and merely verified by professionals. In the movie Deep Impact, it was an amateur who discovered the huge comet. They only found out that it was new when they consulted the guides. The astronomy star guide is used as a main basis to judge whether or not the astronomer has discovered a new body, because a new discovery simply wouldn’t yet be plotted on any of the maps in the astronomy star guide.

So What Is an Astronomy Star Guide?

An Astronomy star guide is a publication that serves as reference for amateur astronomers. It contains all the necessary technical information about the stars that will help you in your astronomy, whether you’re doing it for a job or just a hobby.

For example, groups of stars are identified into a specific pattern that astronomers call constellations. There are a total of 88 known constellations that you can find in the evening sky. All these are covered in the astronomy star guide. The guides tell you wonderful and intriguing information about the constellations, not just technical information like location and name of stars. You also get to know the story behind these constellations and the myths associated with them since almost all stars and constellations are named after certain mythical beings like Perseus, Draco, and a lot more.

Of course, information about stars wouldn’t be complete if you don’t see what they look like. These guides come with the needed maps that plot the location of a specific star among the myriad.
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The astronomy star guide gives you the confidence and knowledge that you can use to your advantage. Imagine how your friends would react if you were all watching the stars and you could pinpoint exactly which star is which. This knowledge can only be attained by studying the astronomy star guide.

That’s not the only knowledge you’d get from the astronomy star guide. You’d also get to learn when and where the star you’re looking for would rise into the evening sky. It’s surprisingly simple, and the calculations you need to learn can be found in the astronomy star guide.

The guides also teach you what stars can be found in any given season, since the earth’s rotation and revolution around the sun cause changes to the position of any star in the sky. That’s because maps that show the position of the stars all year around are published in the astronomy star guide.

In a nutshell, an astronomy star guide makes the complicated science of astronomy easier for amateurs and non-professionals to grasp.

Astrologers Also Use the Astronomy Star Guide?

Astronomers are not the only people to hold an interest in the stars. Astrologers do too. Although they may have different aims, astrologers can be considered astronomers. Astrologers just happen to concentrate on the somewhat mythical implications of the stars’ positions, while astronomers prefer to study the empirical or scientific data of the stars.
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How do star guides help astrologers? Here’s how: There are 12 signs of the zodiac. These signs are significant to both astrologers and astronomers, in fact. This is because the 12 zodiac signs are actually constellations in the sky. Because of that, astrologers also use the astronomy star guide to follow the different positions of different celestial bodies in order to make their interpretations.

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