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The Sword of Orion
Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day
Today's Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day for February 09 2010.
By: Donald Waid of Sanger, Texas
Global Rent a Scope (GRAS) is a proud to be the sponsor of the Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day (AAPOD), hosted by Astronomy.FM. The Monthly winner of AAPOD will receive a GRAS account with 300 points to access our robotic telescopes located in New Mexico and Australia.
Do you want to take your own Deep Space images?
Astronomy.FM and Global Rent-a-Scope have teamed up to bring you a free trial account to use on two of their remote-operated observatories. Our special trial account will give you 60 points of free access to GRAS's one-click imaging systems on their remote telescopes, G3 (in New Mexico), G13 (in Australia). Registration does not require a credit card or any commitment from you. At the end of your trial, you will be able to upgrade to a full-use GRAS account that will let you access all of their telescopes.
These image where taken with GRAS free trial account.
Follow Global Rent-a-Scope on Twitter to get Alerts on when the observatories are open, and special offers made only to twitter followers.
Astronomy.FM, an amateur astronomy focused organization, has as its mission "to explore, enjoy, and promote astronomy and space science; to encourage and facilitate the growth of astronomy science to professionals, amateurs, and students, and to bring awareness to the public; to educate and inspire humanity to 'look skyward' and learn." Membership is free and without obligation. Members and the public can listen to broadcasts using links at Astronomy.FM.
The Sword of Orion
By: Donald Waid of Sanger, Texas
Global Rent a Scope (GRAS) is a proud to be the sponsor of the Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day (AAPOD), hosted by Astronomy.FM. The Monthly winner of AAPOD will receive a GRAS account with 300 points to access our robotic telescopes located in New Mexico and Australia.
Do you want to take your own Deep Space images?
Astronomy.FM and Global Rent-a-Scope have teamed up to bring you a free trial account to use on two of their remote-operated observatories. Our special trial account will give you 60 points of free access to GRAS's one-click imaging systems on their remote telescopes, G3 (in New Mexico), G13 (in Australia). Registration does not require a credit card or any commitment from you. At the end of your trial, you will be able to upgrade to a full-use GRAS account that will let you access all of their telescopes.
These image where taken with GRAS free trial account.
Follow Global Rent-a-Scope on Twitter to get Alerts on when the observatories are open, and special offers made only to twitter followers.
Astronomy.FM, an amateur astronomy focused organization, has as its mission "to explore, enjoy, and promote astronomy and space science; to encourage and facilitate the growth of astronomy science to professionals, amateurs, and students, and to bring awareness to the public; to educate and inspire humanity to 'look skyward' and learn." Membership is free and without obligation. Members and the public can listen to broadcasts using links at Astronomy.FM.
