Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

... Explanation: Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations , the glowing Orion Nebula and the dark Horsehead Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Orion Nebula - M 42 - Horsehead Nebula - emission nebula - reflection nebula - dark nebula . Publications with words: Orion Nebula - M 42 - Horsehead Nebula - emission nebula - reflection nebula - dark nebula . ...

... 2008 November 26 . The Horsehead Nebula in Orion . ... Lemmon SkyCenter , U. Arizona . Explanation: One of the most identifiable nebulae in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion , is part of a large, dark, molecular cloud . Also known as Barnard 33, the unusual shape was first discovered on a photographic plate in the late 1800s. The red glow originates from hydrogen gas predominantly behind the nebula, ionized by the nearby bright star Sigma Orionis . ... About APOD | ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . James Finnegan and Tolis Christou spent the night of 17th November 2012 at a location near the Spelga Dam trying out the new Observatory's all-sky camera in combination with James' LF wave detector. ... This was one of the nights of the 2012 Leoniod meteors. Last Revised: 2012 November 20th . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Comet ISON shines in November's second week . ... COMET ISON . ... And the Moon won t be a problem at all, because it doesn t enter the morning sky where the comet is until next week. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

World coordinates added with astrometry.net Images co-added with swarp Color images composited in ds9 and aladin image_00097.fits TARGET = ' NGC 7320 SQ' / target EXPTIME = 1.0E +02 / exposure time (seconds) FILTER = ' (1) g (400-530) ' / filter DATE-OBS = '2011-11-01T04:27:22' / date of observation (UT) image_00098.fits TARGET = ' NGC 7320 SQ' / target EXPTIME = 1.0E +02 / ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... This is a quick shot of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 using four consecutive exposures from the Harvard MicroObservatory robotic telescope in Amado, Arizona, on the night of Nov. ... 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. ... Main image: 0.6 second exposure. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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. ...

... S. Thomas Megeath, University of Toledo . NICMOS Imaging of Protostars in the Orion A Cloud: The Role of Environment in Star Formation . Abstract . ... A search for astrometric companions to very low-mass, Population II stars . ... Galaxy-Scale Strong Lenses from the CFHTLS survey . ... Distances of Planetary Nebulae from SNAPshots of Resolved Companions . ... A Comprehensive Study of Dust Formation in Type II Supernovae with HST, Spitzer and Gemini . ... Past weeks: . ...

Mercury Winter 2009 Table of Contents . Image courtesy of Dan and Cindy Duriscoe (National Park Service Night Sky Program). by Rowena Davis . ... For 20 years the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) has made the task of protecting the night its sole mission. If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112 . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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... NGC 1788 Fox Face Nebula & Lynds 1616 dark nebula - отражательная туманность Лисья мордочка и ее непрозрачная часть - темная туманность в созвездии Орион (Orion) .. ... Просмотр полной версии : NGC 1788 Fox Face Nebula & Lynds 1616 dark nebula - отражательная туманность Лисья мордочка и ее непрозрачная часть - темная туманность в созвездии Орион (Orion) .. ... Координаты отражательной туманности NGC 1788 Fox Face Nebula .: ... Как найти отражательную туманность NGC 1788 Fox Face Nebula? ...

... Click here to go directly to the Orion Nebula Images. ... Copies of individual figures from this paper are available from John Bally . ... Figure 1: The core of the Trapezium showing the four energetic massive stars and a plethora of Sun-like stars with surrounding extended emission. ... Click to download figure in jpeg format. Click to download figure in tiff format. ... Figure 3: A gallery of star-disk systems in Orion's Trapezium. ... To Doug Johnstone's Scientific Home Page . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... There are TPM log files for every night of the dark run except for the nights of 08 October and 14 October 1999. ... The figures below are plots of the MIG data with the y-axis in TPM MIG units (real MIG units*1000) and the x-axis in seconds since midnight. ... Figure: Plot of MIG values vs elapsed time from midnight 10 October 1999. ... Figure: Plot of MIG values vs elapsed time from midnight 08 October 1999.The plot starts recording data from 21:26:52.0 on that day. ... 11/24/1999 ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . ... Take new sets of calibration frames if the temperature changes significantly.(or change the set you are using or the scaling if you are reusing calibration frames). ... You can also use scaleable dark frames called thermal frames. ... However, if you wish to reuse dark frames with images of different exposure times, you must turn the dark frame into a thermal frame by subtracting the bias information. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Story Musgrave (M.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... Service Medal and an Outstanding Unit Citation as a member of the United States Marine Corps Squadron VMA-212 (1954); United States Air Force Post-doctoral Fellowship (1965-1966); National Heart Institute Post-doctoral Fellowship (1966-1967); Reese Air Force Base Commander's Trophy (1969); American College of Surgeons I.S. Ravdin Lecture (1973); NASA Exceptional Service Medals (1974 ...