Lesson Plan #37 http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Lsun2vue.htm . An introduction to solar observations--by eye or telescope (with cautions) and during eclipse. Also, the distance of the Sun, its layers, the corona and the solar wind. ... This lesson plan supplements: (S-2) Our View of the Sun: on disk Sun2view.htm , on the web http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sun2view.htm . ... About the solar wind and its connection to the Sun's corona. ... How does one observe an eclipse? ... What is the solar wind? ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 CCD observations of planetary satellites and occultations and close approachments of stars by asteroids with 26­ inch refractor of Pulkovo observatory T. P. Kiseleva, I. S. Izmailov, M. A. Mozhaev Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia ST--6 CCD camera has been used with 26-- inch Refractor at Pulkovo for ob­ servations of ... These estimates are \Sigma0:015 arcsec and \Sigma0:014 arcsec for X and Y correspondingly. ...

... XMM EPIC MOS Tony Abbey afa@star.le.ac.uk 09 April 2002 Effect of operating temperature and charge injection on CCD22 in full frame mode XMM EPIC MOS Tony Abbey afa@star.le.ac.uk 09 April 2002 Effect of operating temperature and charge injection on CCD22 in timing mode XMM EPIC MOS Tony Abbey afa@star.le.ac.uk 09 April 2002 Cooling the Tony Abbey afa@star.le.ac.uk 09 April 2002 XMM EPIC MOS ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

Photograph quality The photographs must be: I no more than 6-months old 35­40mm in width close up of your head and top of your shoulders so that your face takes up 70­80% of the photograph in sharp focus and clear of high quality with no ink marks or creases too close too far away I I I I blurred ink marked/creased I The photographs must: show you looking directly at the camera ...

... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...

... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. A total lunar eclipse will occur on April 15th, 2014, the first in two and half years. ... GLORIA will travel to Peru to broadcast the event live. ... Lunar eclipse . Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow. ... A partial eclipse will be visible from the Canary Islands. The broadcast . ...

LIPSKIY-RODIONOVA' LUNAR ANTIPODES AS PRECURSORS OF A REGULAR WAVE PLANETOLOGY G.G.Kochemasov IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia kochem@igem.ru / Fax: (009)(095)230 21 79 The first observations of the lunar far side allowed to compare it with the near side and draw very important conclusions in the very beginning of planetary studies based on spacecrafts. ... Celestial bodies are dichotomic. ... The concept of celestial bodies includes Sun (a star) as one of them. ...

Planetary Illumination, and Its effect on Climate Models of Earth-like Exomoons Duncan Forgan1,2 , Vergil Yotov1 1 2 SUPA, Institute for Astronomy ... Compared to an Earth-like planet, there are several extra sources and sinks of energy available to an Earth-like exomoon, including: Tidal Heating Planetary Illumination (thermal flux and reflected starlight) Eclipses of the star by the planet (acts as a sink) Circumstellar HZ - Zero Moon ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

Aristarch is Copernic of Classic World. ... First Aristarch determined the fact for how many times the Sun was father then the Moon and then he compared the Sun and the Moon with the Earth. ... Only the Moon rotates around the Earth. ... Gipparch suggested that the Sun turned around the Earth steady and in circumference but the Earth is displaced according its centre. ... The orbit point in which the Sun is nearer to the Earth Gipparch called perigee and the most remote one he called apogee . ...

... Operating at a wavelength of 10 ?m, it produces a 135њx135њ image with a resolution of 0.9њ. ... The clouds move from the west-southwest. ... At the same time as the IR images, visible light images were taken with an Apple Computer QuickTake electronic camera. ... At 1540 MDT, the large central cloud is visible in both images. At 1544 MDT, a distinctive cloud is apparent near the center in the visible image and right of center in the IR. The performance of the SDSS cloud scanner is excellent. ...

... Next: Object Detection Using Up: Object Detection and Previous: Automated Classification of . ... A status report of the The GSC Object Classifier (GOC) project is presented. ... The GSC contains multiple entries for some objects due to plate overlap. It classifies objects as stars, non-stars, galaxies, blends and potential artifacts; the latter three classifications are rare, and only exist in GSC version 1.1, to which they were added manually. ... star, . ... non-star, . ...

Next: Reducing the observations Up: PEPSYS general photometry Previous: Influencing the plan . ... If the telescope and instrumentation are unfamiliar to you, you may have trouble keeping to the schedule for the first night or two, so try to work with a previous observer on the equipment for a night or two of training before your observing run. If you fall behind, try to keep as many low-altitude observations of extinction stars as you can, and drop some circumzenithal ones if necessary. ...

... Full silvery Moon illuminates terrain. ... Begun a next moon eclipse, when Land barriers a Moon from the Sun and throws its shade on it. ... Drawing 1. ... Drawing 6 Drawing 6 shows a splendid photo of full moon eclipse 18-19 november 1975 during is packed phases doing Dennis de Chikko. ... Eclipse, which will occur 9 november 2003, is a repetition through сарос (cycle of repetitions of eclipses equal 6585 days or 18 years 11 days) full moon eclipse from 28 octobers 1985 with the maximum phase 1,07....

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

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