Monoceros does have some interesting features to look at with a small telescope. Beta Monocerotis is a triple star system. The three stars form a triangle which looks to be in one spot. William Herschel commented that it is "one of the most beautiful sights in the heavens".
Monoceros also has Plaskett's Star. It is a big binary system. Its whole mass is said to be that of almost 100 Suns put together.
Petrus Plancius
Petrus Plancius (1552 – May 15, 1622) was a Flemish astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. He was born as Pieter Platevoet in Dranouter, now in Heuvelland, West Flanders. He studied theology in Germany and England. At the age of 24 he became a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.
In 1592 he published his best known world map named "Nova et exacta Terrarum Tabula geographica et hydrographica". He wrote journals and shipping maps. He made a new way for finding longitude. He was the first to use the Mercator projection for navigational maps.
He was one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company. He drew over 100 maps.
Plancius knew Henry Hudson. Hudson was an explorer of the New World.
Plancius made the map, "Exacta & accurata delinatio… regionibus China, Cauchinchina, Camboja, sive Champa, Syao, Malacca, Arracan & Pegu," that was in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s popular book, "Itinerario" (1596).
Edward R. Hauser
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Hauser died from natural causes in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, aged 98.
Boris Khimichev
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Khimichev died at the age of 81 from a brain tumor.
Yitzhak Hofi
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Hofi died on 15 September 2014, aged 87.
Gemini (constellation)
Gemini is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It was one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy. It is one of the 88 modern constellations today. Its name is Latin for "twins." It is from the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek mythology. Its symbol is ().
Gemini lies between Taurus to the west and Cancer to the east. Auriga and Lynx are to the north. Monoceros and Canis Minor are to the south.
The Geminids are a meteor shower that can be seen best on December 13–14. People watching it see about 100 meteors per hour at most. It one of the richest meteor showers. The Epsilon Geminids peak between October 18 and October 29. They have only been recently confirmed. They overlap with the Orionids. This makes the Epsilon Geminids hard to see. Epsilon Geminid meteors move faster than Orionids.
In Babylonian astronomy, the stars Castor and Pollux were known as the Great Twins (MUL.MASH.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL). The Twins were thought of as minor gods. They were called Meshlamtaea and Lugalirra. These names meant 'The One who has arisen from the Underworld' and the 'Mighty King'. Both names can be understood as titles of Nergal, the major Babylonian god of plague and pestilence. He was king of the Underworld.
Castor and Pollux are the brightest stars in Gemini. They are two bright stars that appear very close together forming an o shape.
The Sun appears in the constellation Gemini from June 20 to July 20. In tropical astrology, the Sun is in the sign Gemini from May 21 to June 22, and in sidereal astrology, from June 16 to July 15.
Eugene I. Gordon
Eugene Irving Gordon (September 14, 1930 – September 15, 2014) was an American physicist. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs.
Gordon was born on September 14, 1930 in New York City. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1952 with a B.S. in physics, and completed his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957.
He became director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs. He married Renate Albrecht on December 31, 1991. He died on September 15, 2014 in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, aged 84.
Lepus (constellation)
Lepus is a constellation south of the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for hare. The hare is not from any figure in Greek mythology. Lepus was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy. It is one of the 88 modern constellations. It is below the constellation Orion (the hunter). It is known as a hare being chased by Orion.
This constellation should not be mixed up with Lupus, the wolf.
Puppis
Puppis is a constellation that can be seen in the southern sky. It is one of the 88 modern constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union.
Argo Navis was sub-divided in 1752 by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, forming Puppis.
AFC Cup
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Jessy Schram
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Schram was born in Skokie, Illinois.
Dranouter
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South China AA
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Super Junior-M
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Super Junior-M is the third subgroup of Super Junior and the most successful.
Dree Hemingway
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Dree Hemingway was born in Idaho.
Han Geng
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Tim Hudson
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The first professional team that Hudson played for was the Oakland Athletics. He has also played with the Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants.
Hudson attended Glenwood School in Phenix City, Alabama. In his senior year, his team went to the 1993 AISA state championship. He finished his high school year with 12 wins and one loss. He had a 1.78 earned run average. Even with his great statistics, Hudson was not drafted or offered a scholarship to a big college. Hudson decided to go to a local two-year college. He went to Chattahoochee Valley Community College (CVCC).
Hamdeen Sabahi
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Sabahi was born in a small town to a peasant father.
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