... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

My wife and I received a Casio QV-300 digital camera as a wedding gift. ... Searching the web, we were able to find software called qvplay that enabled us to download the pictures onto our Sun. ... I could only get the lowest speed to work (about 60 seconds per picture), but it was adequate. ... I was excited about using the camera with the laptop, because the Sun only has 8-bit color, and an extremely lousy monitor. Copying pictures from the Sun to the laptop, sure enough they looked fantastic. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

What follows is a list of resources that excel in astronomy education. ... We believe the list is topologically complete in that there are no publicly advertised astronomy resources on the WWW that cannot be found by following the internal links of these resources. ... How Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is being used as a learning tool by teachers and students. ... Bad Astronomy Blog . ... Dr. Jeff's Blog on the Universe . ... Detailed pictures and explanations of Hubble Space Telescope results. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

as promised, we have prepared a picture gallery with the best photos taken during the XXXIII YERAC in Bonn in September 2003. Links to the different galleries can be found below. ... Feel free also to visit the guestbook and leave an entry . Apparently, the original YERAC webpage at the University of Bonn is no longer available, so I decided to reactivate the website on a different server. Guestbook and photo upload will no longer work, but all the picture galleries are still available. ...

... Comet Lovejoy over a Windmill . ... Pictured above, Comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) was imaged above the windmill in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire in southern France with a six-second exposure. ... Comet Lovejoy should remain available for photo opportunities for northern observers during much of December and during much of the night, although it will be fading as the month progresses and highest in the sky before sunrise. ... Publications with keywords: comet . ... Close Comet and the Milky Way . ...

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Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Advertiser Links . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... 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. ...

... 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 | ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... 21/12/2009 Release of Science Verification Data . ... 11/12/2009 Press release about VISTA (Text, Images and Videos) . The ESO press release is at www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-49-09.html . ... 10/12/2009 15:00+ Ownerhsip of VISTA accepted by ESO from STFC (UK Goverenment representative) . ... 15/10/2009 Science Verification period started (see 21/12/9 for release) . ... 17/04/2008 Press releases om M1 from ESO , STFC and QMUL . ...

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. Tristan was born 13 December 1999 at Aunt Boo's house in New Orleans. To go to big sister Rhiannon's Photo Page, click here. To go to little brother Jasper's Photo Page, click here. Ellen Howell <ehowell@naic.edu> Last modified: Wed Feb 6 2002

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

... Astronomy search engine . ... PhysicsWeb Home Page . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Astro Space Center Home Page . ... Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics . ... Astronomy and Space Physics Dept of Kiev University . ... NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY Home Page . University of Hawaii - Institute for Astronomy . ... Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page . ... Sky & Telescope: The Essential Magazine of Astronomy . ... Springer LINK - Physics Online Library . ... Home . ...

... Солнечные затмения 2004-2024 . ... Short report about viewing of Venus Transit at 8 June 2004. ... The same situation was at Berdyansk at the June, 8, 2004, when Venus Transit occur. ... At the photo below, you can see how cloudy it was when the transit began. ... You can see it at the picture 1. ... I would like to thank Illya Pustovit, who kindly gave me a permission to use his digital camera for taking pictures of this Venus Transit and helped me a lot with working on gotten pictures. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...