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Minnesota Night Skies: How to see the Heavenly Palace and take your own galaxy photos

Astro Bob debuts a new podcast for all of Minnesota

M8 Lagoon nebula June 1 2024 Seestar_processed.jpg
The Lagoon nebula, photographed with the Seestar C50.
Bob King/contributed photo

MINNESOTA — Astro Bob is back with a new podcast! Join Astro Bob King and host Lisa Johnson from the Alexandria Echo Press for a look at what to see in the skies all this month across Minnesota.

In our debut episode, Bob talks about the planets (they'll all be visible at different times this month), a conjunction right away February 1, and how to see the "Heavenly Palace."

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Bob King is an author, photographer and amateur astronomer and he writes about astronomy (and offers photography tips) for a variety of publications, including his column for Forum Communications and Sky & Telescope magazine .

For more information about the guides Bob talked about, you can check out Skymaps.com and/or look for Stellarium Mobile where you get your apps. It's available for both Apple and Android phones.

For information about satellites, visit Heavens Above for satellite and other data customized to your location.

Information about the Seestar Smart Telescope is available here .

If you want to sing the "Conjunction Junction" song from Schoolhouse Rock, you can find it here.

To learn more about the Chinese space station, Tiangong, click here .

To learn more about Road Scholar trips, click here.

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More by Lisa Johnson:
The list of things you cannot use to view an eclipse is weird. The list of things you can use is weirder.

Lisa Johnson has been a broadcast journalist, anchor and producer over half her life. She started her broadcast career spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She's worked in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls, and spent the last 30 years hosting a morning news show in Duluth. She is glad to be back closer to family in western Minnesota, and is an unabashed morning person.

Story ideas? Email ljohnson@echopress.com
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