... The Crown of the Sun . ... During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere or corona is an awesome and inspirational sight. ... A Total Solar Eclipse over Turkey . ... The above digital mosaic caught the Moon in several stages as it moved between the Earth and the Sun. Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis . ... In fact, from its vantage point 150 million kilometers sunward of planet Earth, SOHO's cameras can always monitor the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. ...

... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

... 2008 February 22 . Eclipsed Moonlight . Credit Copyright : Jerry Lodriguss ( Catching the Light ) . Explanation: Moon watchers blessed with clear skies over the Americas, Europe, Africa and western Asia enjoyed a total lunar eclipse this week. Catching eclipsed moonlight, astroimager Jerry Lodriguss offers this view of the inspiring celestial event with the shadowed Moon accompanied by wandering planet Saturn at the left, and bright Regulus, alpha star of the constellation Leo, above . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Two of the most interesting of these images, that is, a montage of last September s total lunar eclipse and a montage of a bright double rainbow that evolved into a rare spoked wheel rainbow, were recently selected for display at the exhibition of astronomical photographs, Images of Starlight , in the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Glasnevin, Dublin. ... Click on image for larger version. ...

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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Cassini spies bright Venus from Saturn orbit . ... Peering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus. ... A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. ...

On Thursday, 1998 February 26, a total eclipse of the Sun was visible from within a narrow corridor traversing the Western Hemisphere. The totality path (or path of the Moon's umbral shadow) began in the Pacific, continued through northern South America and the Caribbean Sea, and ended at sunset off the Atlantic coast of Africa. ... Some of the best placed sites along the totality path were in Venezuela. ... Exposure time was 1/2 second. At this location totality lasted 3min 36sec. ...

... The picture was captured using a special telescope called VISTA. VISTA is special because it doesn t collect normal light that our eyes can see. It looks at the Universe in light that we can t see, called Infrared . Unlike the visible light we see with our eyes, infrared light can travel through materials like cosmic dust and show us what is hiding within. ... In just the small section of the cosmos captured in this photograph, VISTA has discovered two new stars! ...

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Several lunar eclipses have been visible from the New York area as these photographs from AAA members show. ... Penumbral lunar eclipse, New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... 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 ). ...

Program Number . ... Program Title . ... An Ultraviolet Survey of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe . Abstract . ... HST Observations of Titan's Escaping Atmosphere in Transit and in Emission . ... Observations of several interacting system are scheduled for this week. ... Following the ACS failure in January 2007, the program was re-designed, focusing on WFPC2 observations of the larger galaxies within ~3.5 Mpc, as program GO 11307: Completing the ACS Galaxy Survey with WFPC2. ...

... It is notoriously difficult to identify weak cosmic ray events in long exposure observations. ... The method is to compare the probability distribution function (PDF) of cosmic ray events between an observation and a dark frame matched in exposure time. We illustrate the basic idea using dark exposures from a Tek 1024 1024 CCD with varying exposure lengths and read-out times. ... Figure: Histogram of cosmic ray events in a two hour dark frame. ... Original PostScript figure (78 kB) . ...

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

Coronal "hole" on the Sun . ... As a result of the observations of solar eclipse on February 15, 1961 at wavelength 21 cm the lower brightness region of corona was discovered (detail N5 on figure 1) and it's location on east nimbus of the Sun was determined (figure 2). ... Subsegently such phenomena were named "Coronal Holes". Figure 1. ... The detail N5 is Coronal Hole. ... The location on disk of the Sun radiation details of corona at wavelength 21 cm. ...

... Sun Image and Animation Index Additional Sun Resources . ... The Sun's outer visible layer is called the photosphere and has a temperature of 6,000њC (11,000њF). ... The corona is the outer part of the Sun's atmosphere. ... Sun's magnetic field, prominences, solar wind, aurora . ... This image of 1,500,000њC gas in the Sun's thin, outer atmosphere (corona) was taken March 13, 1996 by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

XMM-Newton EPIC TTD Meeting Preparation for next eclipse season 7th Feb 2001 Mauro Casale ESA H/Q: 7th February 2001 XMM 1 Facts / lessons learned from previous eclipses 1) the eclipses will occur before perigee in the period 19-03- 2001 / 24-04- 2001 2) the shortest time between end of eclipse and Perigee time is about 22 minutes; in most of the other cases it is around 30-31 ... T0 - 1.6/1h: Eclipse start. ... ESA H/Q : 7th February 2001 XMM 7 ...