... The Earth's surface receives more light per unit area. ... The Earth is closer to the Sun. ... At what time does the Third Quarter Moon rise? a) 9:00 AM b) 12:00 Noon c) 9:00 PM $d) 12:00 Midnight When the moon is in its last quarter , when does it rise and set? a) sunrise, sunset b) sunset, sunrise $c) midnight, noon d) noon, midnight Why don't lunar eclipses happen at every full moon ? $a) The Moon 's orbit doesn't always take it through the Earth's shadow. b) The Moon 's ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon . ... Total solar eclipse . ... An annular eclipse occurs when the apparent disk of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. ... Umbra: . ...

... 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. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

ALBUM: floating Artist: Eloy @ SONG : Floating Instrumental @ SONG : The Light From Deep Darkness Out of the depth of nothing In nobobdy's time The earth was created The first morning starts Sun appears in the sky Winds stroking waves Evening shadows tumble down Eclipse the sun of life Herald the night Burning lights arise people take their places Dance a merry round They live without fear Help each other in their way through life Tomorrow we'll see They forget ...

... Most of the time large telescopes are collecting light for a spectrograph, which spreads the light out into a rainbow. ... Atoms in the cool outer layers of a star absorb light coming from the hotter regions within, producing dark absorption lines across the spectrum. ... And astronomers do not actually use color film to take a color picture of the spectrum, for several reasons: . ... Color film does a very poor job of representing the continuous range of colors in a spectrum. ... Tutorial: Part 1 |...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... Phil Creed . ... Hidden Hollow 2008 . ... Prizes . ... Phil's "Home" Astronomy Club is the Wilderness Center Astronomy Club (http://www.twcac.org). ... This year, Phil will be hosting Astronomy Bowl , an exciting question-and-answer game that'll both enlighten and challenge the mind--for both the players and the audience. ... ASTRONOMY BOWL at Hidden Hollow! ... ASTRONOMY BOWL is the alternative for those that'd like to win a prize but never get that smile from Lady Luck come Raffle Time. ...

. THE MOON: . Most of this images taken with 180/2800mm homemade RC telescope + SBIG ST6 CCD camera . And partial lunar eclipse . at 05 Jul 2001 . (our small photogallery) . Do you know lunar nomenclature? And maybe you want to learn them? Then look here ... HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus)

... Some people have asked why Venus appears in "different places" in these photos. ... Dave Wallace . ... It was taken from Brookline, NH using my Celestron 5" SCT through a Tutill Solar Skreen filter using Fuji Superia Reala color print film. ... Marblehead Middle School Fifth Grade Students viewed the 2004 Transit of Venus from Riverhead Beach on Marblehead Harbor when the Sun broke through the clouds at about 6:45 a.m. Eyepiece projection with my 8" Meade SCT and Televue 32mm Plossl worked well. ...

AAL Guestbook . Please Sign Our Guestbook . Guestbook Entries: 147 . Add Entry | ... Previous Page | Next Page . ... Signed on at . ... Ma daat hudd dir awer ganz flott gemaach ! Ech wДrt elo emol mei oft an Дr SДit kucken kommen , bis dann !! ... Salut AAL! Ech sin hei op der Foire an elo sin ech emol bei iech laanschtgesurft! ... PrДis gewonnen hun gesin. ech fannen ganz flott dat der dei Foto op aer SДit gesaat hutt. Aer sДit ass wierklech deck flott. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... This check identifies the time intervals when any of the EPIC instruments is in counting mode. This is done by looking at the counting cycle report data in the ODF. The following anomalies are detected and lead to a warning: . A counting mode interval appears from the data to have a negative duration. A counting mode interval appears to have lasted longer than the exposure it belongs to. ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2005-08-16 ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

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... The Second International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Problems to solve, 8-10 Form Text of these problems is available in Russian too. ... Two stars have the same absolute magnitude. ... The orbital period of Mars is 687 days. ... See problem 2. for 8-10 Form. ... Problem to solve, 9-12 Form Text of the problem is available in Russian too. ... Problem is about Doppler-effect, to find velosities of two stars using their spectra and spectrum of our Sun, to estimate speed of the Earth moving around the Sun...

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... 9 AAAP meeting (8:00 Peyton Hall). ... November 2004 Number 10 From the Director Lunar Eclipse. ... The ancient Greeks first inferred that the earth was round from observing eclipses of the moon. ... Please pay $40 to AAAP, c/o Ms. Jane Lanahan 335 Wayland Rd, Cherry Hill NJ 08034 Simpson Observatory (609) 737-2575 General Membership Meeting Director Rex Parker called the meeting to order at 8:05 PM. 53 club members, guests and general public were in attendance. ...

... North was somewhere years ago and Out of my Book cold: Ice locked the people's hearts and We sat by ourselves, still looking made them old. for company; South was birth to pleasant lands, there could have been peace, but that but dry: eluded me - I walked the waters' depths and all I could think of was what was on played my mind. my mind. ... White. ... And the Black, too, shall bow down to the power above; Black hate beats Grey but surpreme is the White Hammer of Love. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...