... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 November 3 . Seeking Venus under the Spitzkoppe Arch . Image Credit Copyright: Petr HorАlek ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt . Explanation: What's that in the sky? ... In the featured image , Venus was captured actually through a natural rock bridge, itself picturesque, in Spitzkoppe , Namibia . ... Archive | ... About APOD | ...

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... Although there was much to see in this spectacular panorama taken during the early morning hours of a day in late September, the brightest object in the sky was clearly the planet Venus. ... Above and beyond the rock bridge were many famous icons of a dark night sky, including, from left to right, the Pleiades star cluster, the Orion Nebula , the bright star Sirius, and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. ... Comet Meets Moon and Morning Star . ... Jupiter and Venus from Earth . ...

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NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on December 1, 2015 | No Comments A spectacular multi-coloured fireball was witnessed in Ireland and Scotland by dozens of people on the evening of 29 November 2015. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on October 24, 2014 | ... 2 Comments October is an interesting month for astronomers as World Space Week falls from 4 October until 10 October and coincidentally itтАЩs a good month for keen astronomers to take to [ ] . ...

... I am still trying to determine the cause of a difference between the results for the new and old code with the other kernels. ... I then returned to trying to figure out the difference between the old and new drizzlepac coordinate mapping. It turns out the old drizzlepac was using its internal mapping code, so I forced it to use the wcs mapping code instead.But that did .. ... I did some more testing and code reading in drizzlepac in search of the discrepancy between the old an new version. ...

... 1998: . ... Collaboration with the IAP RAS). direct measurements of the magnetic field in the coronal hole at the bottom of the corona were performed, the magnetic field strength (the calculations were carried out as part of the thermal bremsstrahlung mechanism of radio emission generation of the solar plasma in the weak magnetic field ) increases from the values of 0.2G at the photosphere level up to 7-10G at the level of radio ... Archive . ...

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...