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Star EE-1 and photos
Hi Malcolm and Dunk,
Thanks!
Mal, keep googling, we may nail this star's magnitude as more news filters thru.
As an example, Kepler 22 star, with planet Keppler 22-b, is a yellow dwarf star with magnitude 11.5, and this star is also 600 light years away like star EE-1!
Dunk, sorry you couldn't be with us. It was a truly wonderful experience to see families come together at Fed square for such a family oriented astronomical event, that astronomy and space can spread so much further than us who share a passion of the night sky here and the amateurs with their space shots up the big screen featured on the show.
We really need to step back and appreciate this star gazing TV event from this perspective and angle to appreciate what Brian Cox is hoping to achieve here. And Fed Square event in Melbourne making this possible as a live event (and not a TV box) with Dr Karl and Grace Koh of the ABC, scientists, astrophysicists at CAASTRO and others with their marquees aimed for the children, all their efforts on Thursdays nights should be applauded for such a free fantastic event for the family.
Everyone of us there contributed to make it possible. The weather in Melbourne finally made it perfect that night, with the gibbous Moon up in the Melbourne CBD for the telescopes to convey her beauty to the children.
I've uploaded a small sample of the photos before, will upload more as I go, here are some more for the memories.
Kind regards,
Bill
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