... Calendar . ... I n the last day of the International Year of Astronomy ( early evening of 31 December 2009), the Moon had the smallest partial eclipse that we have seen in Ireland and the UK for 40 years: the Moon was 8% covered by the Earth's shadow. Incidentally, this was also a "Blue Moon" - the name given for the second full Moon within a calendar month. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 2.01.2010 . ... Credit Copyright: Jean Paul Roux Explanation: The International Year of Astronomy 2009 ended with a Blue Moon and a partial lunar eclipse , as the second Full Moon of December grazed the Earth's shadow on December 31st. ... 2009 2010 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: full moon - blue moon - IYA2009 . Publications with words: full moon - blue moon - IYA2009 . ... Not a Blue Moon . ...

... 2011 December 9 . Eclipsed Moon in the Morning . ... Explanation: Tomorrow, December 10 , the Full Moon will slide through planet Earth's shadow in a total lunar eclipse . ... In central and western North America the earlier phases of the eclipse will be in progress as the Moon sets . In fact, while those in the east will miss out, North Americans far enough west could see a scene very much like this one, with a mostly eclipsed Moon low and near the western horizon during morning twilght. ...

... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

... Total solar eclipse 2008 live from Novosibirsk On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse was being visible in Russia. ... The solar eclipse in Novosibirsk started at 9h41m UT and finished at 11h45m UT. ... Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS eclipse expedition team made 3 channels live Web-cast of the eclipse from Novosibirsk in collaboration with . ... Total phase . ... It's preferably to install on computer VLC media player free program for Web-cast live receiving. ...

... Home Links International Sidewalk Astronomy Night . ... Saturday night, April 12, 2008, is the 2nd International Sidewalk Astronomy Night.€а We call on all amateur astronomers to take their telescopes and binoculars out for the public to enjoy the wonders of the night sky.€а A first-quarter Moon will be visible, as will the planets Saturn and Mars.€а More information can be found at http://www.sidewalkastronomynight.com /, where you can register so people will know where to find you. ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

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... The highlight of the month is the total eclipse of the Moon during the night of December 20/21. ... Listed below are some of the key events, and the times they will occur, during December's total lunar eclipse. ... The eclipse is also visible in its entirety from Alaska (local time is UT тАУ 9 hours) and Hawaii (UT тАУ 10 hours), but be aware that most of the eclipse occurs on the 20th in these two regions. ... Penumbral Eclipse Begins . ... Partial Eclipse Begins . ... Total Eclipse Begins . ...

... Travel . ... Parkes Radio Telescope , Parkes (Australia) . Project P837, May September 2013 . ... 100-m Radio Telescope , Effelsberg (Germany) . ... Workshop H?? in Dwarf Galaxies . 15 16 July 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... Conference The Periphery of Disks . 3 6 November 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 21 October 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 19 21 June 2013, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 11 November 2011, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 13 July 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ...

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 . ...

Physics at the Terascale , December 3-5, 2007 . 2007 IEEE Nuclear Symposium , October 27 - November 3, 2007 . ALCPG Workshop 2007 , October 22-26, 2007 . Second International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders , October 1-10, 2007 . ILC Interaction Region Engineering Design Workshop , September 17-21, 2007 . ... Review of US Program for Detector R for the International Linear Collider (ILC) by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation , June 19-20, 2007 . ...

... Master . ... SAI MSU . Conference was supported by PLC "MO "OPTIKA" . ... Morning session . Chair Hugo Levato (ICATE, Argentina) . ... Vladimir Lipunov ( MSU , SAI ) . ... Evgeniy Gorbovskoy (MSU, SAI) & . А lexander Belinskiy (MSU, SAI) . ... Chair Claudio Mallamaci (OAFA, Argentina) . ... Using MASTER Net in the MSU educational process . ... Chair Victor Kornilov (MSU, SAI) . ... Nikolay Budnev (ISU ) . ... Excursion to the Moscow Kremlin . ... Joint MASTER and Russian Pereplet session. ...

... Dongwon Kim , March 2014, on-going . ... Tammy Roderick , March 2011, on-going . Emma Kirby, *PhD completed August 2010* . ... Laura Dunn, *PhD completed December 2007* . ... David Nicholls, *PhD completed March 2014* . ... Antoine Bouchard, *PhD completed June 2006* . Emily McNeil, *PhD completed December 2010* . ... Eduard Westra, *PhD completed December 2007* . Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006* . Rami Rekola, *PhD completed December 2004* . ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

THIRD CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES SECOND RUSSIAN VISITING CREW "AHDROMEDA" PROGRAMM IMAGES VIDEO . ... EXPEDITION THREE (ISS-3) . CREW OF THE THIRD LONG-DURATION EXPRDITION . ... Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. ... 128 days 20 hrs 44 min 56 s. PRIME CREW . ... ISS commander, . Soyuz-TM TV flight-engineer-2 . NASA, USA . ... ISS pilot, . Soyuz-TM TV commander . ... Russia . ... ISS flight-engineer, . ... BACKUP CREW . ... UNIVERSAL SPACE PLATFORM | ...

... Moscow Centre for Continuous Mathematical Education . ... Grigori L. Litvinov : Dequantization of mathematical structures and tropical/idempotent mathematics. ... Coffee break . ... Dmitry A. Nikolayev (Lipetsk, Russia): Modelling and control of multiagent systems by idempotent algebra methods. ... Theodor E. Krenkel (Moscow, Russia) On the geometry of quantum codes. ... Dima Grigoriev (Lion, France) and Vladimir V. Podolskii (Moscow, Russia) Complexity of tropical and min-plus linear prevarieties ....

... Travel to Paranal . ... ESO . ... Long Night of Science 2015 . ... At Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama Desert, one of the most remote places in the world, the distance from sources of light pollution makes the night sky all the more remarkable during a total lunar eclipse. €а . This panorama photo, taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky, shows the view of the starry sky from the site of ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal during the total lunar eclipse of 21 December 2010. ...

... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Sadly C/ 2014 Q2 will probably not be as spectacular a sight as Comet C/ 2011 W3 (Lovejoy), visible near Earth?s horizon in this nighttime image from the International Space Station on 22 December 2011. ... The comet made its closest approach to Earth on 7€а January 2015, at a distance of 72 million km (45 million miles).€а In January the comet will race though the constellations Eridanus, Taurus, Aries and Triangulum. ...