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I want to be a observational astronomer, but have no idea where to start
Awarded Sep 10 at 15:18
Can the planet Neptune be seen from Earth with binoculars?
Awarded Sep 9 at 18:02
How high does the ocean tide rise every 90 minutes due to the gravitational pull of the space station?
Awarded Sep 9 at 7:15
What is the probability of life having developed or going to develop in our solar system another time?
Awarded Aug 29 at 14:32
What percentage of a lunar meteor strike is blown back into space?
Awarded Aug 24 at 10:31
How much air escapes into space every day, and how long before it makes Earth air pressure too low for humans to breathe?
Awarded Aug 14 at 11:01
Do comets ever run out of water?
Awarded Aug 12 at 14:20
Why is the completely dark disk of the Moon visible on a new moon if the lunar orbit is at an angle to the Earth’s?
Awarded Aug 12 at 12:38
Could there really be a preferential direction to the speed of light?
Awarded Aug 12 at 10:31
How will space telescopes catch T Coronae Borealis going nova?
Awarded Aug 6 at 21:25
How do you get on the list to be notified of realtime LSST alerts (like supernovae)?
Awarded Aug 1 at 15:54
Do amateurs still search for supernovae?
Awarded Jul 28 at 5:35
What observations show that galaxies are made of matter instead of anti-matter?
Awarded Jul 27 at 21:57
Pluto has smooth ice plains, almost like lunar maria. Where did the heat come from to melt all that ice?
Awarded Jul 25 at 17:02
Could 99942 Apophis break up due to Earth's gravity during 2029 flyby?
Awarded Jul 23 at 0:49
What is the ugriz magnitude system?
Awarded Jul 22 at 18:40
In which direction does the ecliptic plane make an angle of 60 degrees with galactic plane?
Awarded Jul 21 at 23:21
Always orient a sundial towards polar north?
Awarded Jul 19 at 4:05
Recurring flying object near the Big Dipper
Awarded Jul 19 at 2:08
What are the chances of finding an element in the outer solar system that otherwise can't be found on earth?
Awarded Jul 17 at 8:05
In the onion-like elemental layers of a large mature star the neon is closer to the surface than oxygen, even though it is more massive... Why?
Awarded Jul 16 at 13:37
Are any Population III stars red dwarfs?
Awarded Jul 11 at 14:11
Why is Uranus colder than Neptune?
Awarded Jul 2 at 0:32
Are there really half-a billion visible supernovae exploding all the time?
Awarded Jun 26 at 8:27
Can there be elliptical rings around a planet?
Awarded Jun 26 at 6:21
What is the gravitational lensing focal distance of a white dwarf star?
Awarded Jun 22 at 18:40
Why don't they put more spare gyroscopes in expensive space telescopes?
Awarded Jun 20 at 7:28
Why aren't reflector telescopes built with an offset secondary mirror?
Awarded Jun 19 at 22:19
Why does Mars have a jagged light curve?
Awarded Jun 11 at 20:43
How are neutrinos able to cause a supernova explosion?
Awarded Jun 8 at 16:05
Neutrino interaction with dense molecular structures
Awarded Jun 7 at 14:41
Vera C. Rubin's LSST's ginormous camera's shutter; why does it open/close 1000 times a night & is this typical for large-format survey telescopes?
Awarded Jun 4 at 19:28
How many individual extrasolar "shiny" objects has humanity identified?
Awarded Jun 3 at 13:22
Why do we want to normalize the solar abundance of elements to Si?
Awarded May 19 at 15:57
Can individual rings of Saturn be considered satellites?
Awarded May 10 at 21:42
How did the ancient cultures determine that the year was actually a fraction of an extra day beyond 365 days?
Awarded Apr 29 at 18:17
Why is the metallicity of dwarf galaxies low?
Awarded Apr 29 at 14:51
Based off of the study that found the universe has a positive curvature, how big would the whole universe be?
Awarded Apr 25 at 22:41
Worthwhile to put a telescope on the far side of the Sun?
Awarded Apr 23 at 11:18
Why is there a year 1 B.C., a year 0, and a year 1 A.D. in NASA’s Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses?
Awarded Apr 15 at 16:33
Why are the solar prominences visible during a total solar eclipse - orange? Is the sun orange?
Awarded Apr 14 at 11:10
How to discover Neptune from the Uranus orbit (by computer simulation)
Awarded Apr 11 at 9:08
How precise are future Solar eclipse timing, path and dates, what could change timing/path?
Awarded Apr 10 at 16:46
What caused pink flares during the eclipse
Awarded Apr 9 at 22:27
During a total solar eclipse is it possible to see solar flares with the naked eye?
Awarded Apr 4 at 20:57
Can stars form in the stellar halo?
Awarded Apr 3 at 14:52
What are the chances of a star colliding with another during a galactic collision?
Awarded Apr 1 at 14:02
Do Pulsar stars make actual sounds?
Awarded Mar 27 at 10:36
Why does nuclear fusion generate heat?
Awarded Mar 26 at 3:15
Earth is Tilted, but in reference to What Object / relative to what?
Awarded Mar 24 at 17:02
Why is it ok for people to be saying that dark matter makes up x amount of the universe when we don't know what it is?
Awarded Mar 22 at 3:20
why does pluto have a high orbital inclination
Awarded Mar 21 at 13:35
Where in a star are the spectral absorption lines formed?
Awarded Mar 19 at 14:52
Generate a uniform distribution on the sky
Awarded Mar 18 at 0:33
Are galaxies growing, shrinking or stable?
Awarded Mar 16 at 8:11
Multiply Earth's orbital speed with square root of 2
Awarded Mar 13 at 1:07
The moon in the first phase visible in the sky is tilted
Awarded Mar 10 at 16:12
Color index B-V of the dimming Betelgeuse
Awarded Mar 10 at 0:26
Why are IAU constellation boundaries not rectilinear?
Awarded Mar 2 at 14:46
Milky Way position on the sky
Awarded Mar 2 at 0:55
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