Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... This past spring, as Comet Hyakutake decorated our evening skies, I received a telephone call from an upset parent. We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" The exasperated mother said they found binocular and naked-eye views to be better than those through the telescope. ... They may be bright overall, but all that light is coming from a big area of space. ... OK, you say, I found Comet Hale-Bopp this evening. ... Does the comet have a tail? ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 1st December 2015: This year s Geminid meteor display, the best of the annual meteor showers, will be visible from approximately the 7th to 17th December, peaking on the evening of the 14th. ... Unlike most meteor showers, however, which originate from dust grains ejected into space by comets, the Geminid meteors originate from an unusual near-Earth asteroid, namely (3200) Phaethon. ...

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New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

The run progress pages document the execution of Service Mode and Visitor Mode observing runs carried out at the Paranal Observatory. A summary of the run's characteristics is given, as well as a time-stamped list of all Observation Blocks (OB) that were executed until now. ... If reduced data for the given run exist, those are also reported in both the OB Summary table and in the details. ... Reduced : information shown only if pipeline-processed reduced data exist for the OB . ... OB ID . ...

... A Meteor Shower Fireball Movie . ... Tonight is the peak of the month-long Perseid Meteor Shower . Although visible every year at this time, the Perseids are expected to appear particularly active this year due to the relative absence of glare from the Moon during the peak. ... That fireball was captured by a digital recorded over Wise Observatory during the 2001 Leonid Meteor Shower. ... Publications with keywords: Perseids - meteor shower . Publications with words: Perseids - meteor shower . ...

... August 9, 1996 . The Perseid Meteor Shower . ... Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of Perseus, Comet Swift-Tuttle presents -- The Perseid Meteor Shower -- coming to your night sky this weekend! ... Dramatically illustrated in this composite video image made using MOVIE , meteors from the 1994 Perseids streak across the sky framed by the three bright stars of the asterism known as the "Summer Triangle" . ... What's the best way to enjoy a meteor shower? ... About APOD | ...

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... The TRACE images may be used without restrictions in publications of any kind. ... These two images, taken on 18 November 2000 at 15:54UT and 16:11UT, respectively, show such an event: the red circle in the image to the left shows a region where many loops are cooling, with bright loop tops (the intensity scales with the square root of the image to reduce the dynamic range). ... See also a collection of images related to the Sun, other cool stars, and solar-terrestrial effects . ... Images | ...

Next: Conclusions Up: Adaptive Least Squares Image Previous: Processing of Simulated . Fig. 6 shows an image of Saturn which was recorded with the Wide Field / Planetary Camera. It is stored in the file SATURN.FITS. The measured point spread function from the data file SATURN_PSF.FITS is also displayed. Fig. 7 shows the result of restoration. The restored image appears much clearer, with higher contrast than the measured data. ... Thu Jun 2 15:47:14 EDT 1994 ...

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The Permissions window shows which observing programs can control which instruments. ... If your program name does not appear, ask a telescope operator to add you and grant you the appropriate permissions. Telescope operators can also adjust permissions, add and delete programs and temporarily lock out non-operators from using particular instruments. ... Program Name Button : each program name button is a checkbutton: up (the normal state) means "added", down means "deleted". ...

Start CIMA from the right-mouse-button menu on the Observer machine. ... This window will now vanish. Next go to the CIMA main menu window, seen on the left of the screenshot above.Before starting observing, it is a good idea to restart the WAPPs (the spectrometers used by AGES). ... From the main menu, select Command File Observing to bring up the Command file observing window (below). ... Hit the Run button at the bottom of the command file observing window to run the file. ...

... It turns out one possibility is a form of matter/energy invented by Einstein in the 1920s to make sure his equations of General Relativity did not predict the Expansion of the Universe. Although Einstein was willing to predict several things with his equations of General Relativity, he obviously thought an expanding Universe was too much, and so he invented the Cosmological Constant, which repels itself, and was meant to balance the force of gravity, and make the Universe static. ...

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... Observers looking at an object that is moving away from them see light that has a longer wavelength than it had when it was emitted (a redshift), while observers looking at an approaching source see light that is shifted to shorter wavelength (a blueshift). ... By measuring the amount of the shift to the red, we can determine that the bright galaxy is moving away at 3,000 km/sec, which is 1 percent of the speed of light, because its lines are shifted in wavelength by 1 percent to the red. ... Part 2...

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... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...