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Tag: April 2023
Events on the Horizon – April 2023
Please join us for any of our following events this April, and set your calendars – we are one year away from the 2024 total
AAA
April 1, 2023
Message From AAA’s President
A message from the current AAA president, Brian Berg. Happy April to all. This will be my penultimate president’s message, as I will be stepping
Brian Berg
April 1, 2023
Darkening an iPhone Photo Reveals Many Stars
The iPhone can serve you well when you want to snap photos of celestial events and don’t have your equipment. The labels on the
Alice Charles
April 1, 2023
How I Photographed the Orion Constellation With My iPhone
On March 19, 2023 the sky was clear and the winds not too strong. I was walking on Fordham Road and looked up and to
Alice Charles
April 1, 2023
What’s Up in the Sky
April’s Evening Planets: Bright Venus will be in Taurus the Bull until 10 PM and setting earlier later every night. Mercury will be up until
Antoine Faddoul
April 1, 2023
Photographs of the Orion Constellation
Figure 1 depicts the Constellation Orion that I captured on 3/19/23 between 8:39pm NY, with an IPhone 12 mini, Wide Camera – 26 mm f.1.6.
Alice Charles
April 1, 2023