... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 19, 1999 . Mercury And The Sun . ... TRACE Project . Explanation: Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower , skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. ... About APOD > . ...
Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...
Example 2: Figure 8 (90 Kbytes) shows an image of M31. While this is not a particularly spectacular image of M31 it is nevertheless unique as it was taken in a suburban backyard using a Lynxx CCD camera. The exposure is unfiltered. ... The image scale in this system is 41 arcseconds per pixel which yields a total field size of 2.2 x 1.9 square degrees. At this pixel resolution M32 blends into the light of M31, although NGC 205 (marked with a red arrow) is plainly visible. ... Page 6 . ...