... 2015 December 5 . Kepler Orrery IV . Video Credit Copyright : Ethan Kruse (University of Washington) . Explanation: The exoplanet hunting Kepler mission's total for candidate and confirmed multiple planet systems stands at 1,705 worlds in orbit around 685 distant stars. Put all of those exoplanet orbits on the same scale and follow their relative orbital motions to get Kepler Orrery IV . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... 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. ...

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) . ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA Explanation: The Sun rotates on its axis about once every 27 days. ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - solar rotation - sunspot . Publications with words: Sun - solar rotation - sunspot . ...

. 13th of December 2015 . Visiting ASKAP . Photo by Connie Brem (CASS) . Following the wonderful Murchison Astrofest , we returned to Boolardy Station and on the following day had a great tour of the ASKAP site and antennas . RSS feed generated by Page2RSS . | archive | about | today * ATNF | Parkes | ATCA | Mopra | VLBI | ASKAP | .

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... What causes spikes around stars in pictures, and how can I prevent them? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Construction Punch List: December 27, 1999 . ... Cold temperatures aloft and warm temperatures at the Basin's surface left the lovely cloud cover. ... Above: close gap between door and cowling . Above right: clean up terminatinon . Right: seal door guard . ... Left: interior trim around dorr missing . Below left: seal around shroud; close gap between cowling and door . Below: patch hole from old cable reel . Right: remove old cable rel bracket and extra conduit . ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . ... Pictures . ... Posted by Greg Eckes on October 31, 2003 05:10:43 UTC . ... Pictures - jkoptic - October 31, 2003 - 16:33 UTC . Pictures - gjeckes - November 1, 2003 - 01:02 UTC . ... Pictures - jkoptic - November 2, 2003 - 05:23 UTC . ... Secondary offset - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 21:41 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

. Funny picture of bear in solutions .

... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. ... 16 December 2008, NUI Galway: Dr. Martin Mansergh TD, Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works today announced broadcast details of this yearтАЩs Winter Solstice at Newgrange, County Meath. ... The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is an initiative of the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO. ...

. 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

CREW 21/22 . ... BACKUP CREW . ... She got the following degrees at Arizona State University: in 1972 she was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science; in 1975 she got the degree of Master of Arts; in 1978 she took the degree of the Doctor of Law. ... Her husband is Craig Barrett, born in 1939, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Intel Inc. ... At the same time, she was the President of Arizona World Affairs council, Arizona World Trade Organization and the Economic Club of Phoenix. ...

Since I have added MANY NEW pictures, The page started getting a VERY LONG load time. ... When the page you choose finishes loading, simply click on any picture to see a full size image. Believe me, the full size is worth it on most of them. The full size pictures average around 50 K in size so it shouldn't take too long. ... The Fall of 1999 . The Member's Christmas Party 1999 . The Home School Star Party Spring 2000 . ... The Dome Painting Party - Spring 2000 . ...

... 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. ...

If you are already familiar with the HDF-S, you may just want to check out what's new . If you are not yet familiar with the project, you may want to start by studying the HDF-S public outreach materials and release pictures , or by reading more about the first HST Deep Field, the HDF (North) . The raw, calibrated and processed HST observations of the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) were released on November 23, 1998. ... HDF-S Clearinghouse. ... Visit the Hubble Deep Field South main page . ...

First at each page there a short heading describing what the connector is. After that there is at each page there is one or more pictures of the connectors. ... At the computer) . ... Below the pictures there is texts that describes the connectors. Including the name of the physical connector. 5 PIN DIN 180° (DIN41524) at the computer. The pin table is perhaps the information you are looking for. ... Pin . Name . ... The source of the information is perhaps a book or another site. ...