... Tonight brings the last total lunar eclipse visible from North America until the year 2000 - with the Moon becoming completely immersed in Earth's shadow. ... Bright Stars and Dark Clouds . ... Well don't feel bad - this even happened to the bright young stars of the open cluster NGC 6520. On the left are the cluster's bright blue stars. Beneath Venus' Clouds . ... If the thick clouds covering Venus were removed, how would the surface appear? ... Comet Hale-Bopp Fades . ...

... 2005 April 11 . Clouds, Plane, Sun, Eclipse . ... Last Friday, the first partial solar eclipse of 2005 and the last total eclipse of the Sun until March 2006 was visible. During a solar eclipse , the Sun , Moon and Earth are aligned. The total solar eclipse was primarily visible from the Southern Pacific Ocean , while a partial solar eclipse was discoverable across South America and lower North America . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... April . ... June . ... Posted on April 7, 2016 | 2 Comments Armstrong and Aldrin were the first two people on the Moon when Apollo 11 landed there in July 1969. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 3, 2015 | ... Posted on August 18, 2015 | ... Posted on June 25, 2015 | ... No Comments June is finally upon us, and the summer is officially in full swing. ... Posted on May 22, 2015 | ...

... 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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Lightcurve of HW Vir from images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory . The blue triangles show the difference between two stars whose brightness is constant. ... This shows the value of the Faulkes Telescopes in the follow-up observations of eclipsing binaries with the aim to detect and characterise additional circumbinary companions. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. A total lunar eclipse will occur on April 15th, 2014, the first in two and half years. ... GLORIA will travel to Peru to broadcast the event live. ... Lunar eclipse . Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow. ... A partial eclipse will be visible from the Canary Islands. The broadcast . ...

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 . ...

... Stars are born in big clouds of gas and dust in the Universe. ... This amazing new picture shows a small part of a cloud in our own galaxy (called the Milky Way) in which stars are being formed. In the picture you can see bright arc shapes in the cloud, but what created them is a mystery. ... When all of their fuel is gone, these massive stars explode in what is called a supernova explosion the biggest firework display in the Universe! ...

... April 2, 1999 . Stars of NGC 206 . ... Explanation: Nestled within the dusty arms of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31), the star cluster NGC 206 is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies. The beautiful bright blue stars of NGC 206 betray its youth - but close, systematic studies of variable stars in and around NGC 206 will also accurately reveal its distance. ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Total Lunar Eclipse May 15-16 . ... Post Message | ... A total Lunar Eclipse. On the night of May 15-16 the Earth will come between the Sun and the Moon casting a shadow that will slowly cover the Moon. ... The last total Eclipse was on a day where it snowed 10? all day. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

HIPASS Name RA, DEC(J2000) l, b NED ID peak rms mom0 vsys w50 w20 vLG MHI Ref. ... Col(1,2) = HIPASS name (HIPASS Jhhmm-dd; A,B,C if needed) . Col(3,4) = HIPASS center position in RA, DEC (J2000) . ... NGC6822 0.490 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . DDO210 0.880 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC0055 1.480 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ... ESO594-G004 1.060 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . IC5152 1.590 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . WLM 0.925 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC3109 1.250 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . SextansA 1.440 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ...

... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon . ... Total solar eclipse . ... An annular eclipse occurs when the apparent disk of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. ... Umbra: . ...

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. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... 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) ...

... Posts tagged ?April? ... April 3 , and we have been allocated a slot for an AstroStatistics session. ... If you are attending the meeting, and plan to present posters or talks that deal with astrostatistical methods or techniques, we welcome you to participate in this session. ... There is also a page for this session on the astrostat google groups site. ... Tags: 2008 , AAS , April , astrostatistics , HEAD , Los Angeles , March , Methods , Omni , special session , techniques , workshop . ...

SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE TIPS Meeting 25 May 1995 R. Jedrzejewski Summary of FOC Activities for the period 13 April - 24 May 1995 Operations . ... SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE TIPS Meeting 25 May 1995 R. Jedrzejewski Summary of FOC Activities for the period 13 April - 24 May 1995 SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE TIPS Meeting 25 May 1995 R. Jedrzejewski Summary of FOC Activities for the period 13 April - 24 May 1995 FOC F/96 Detector Focus The F/96 detector focus test was run on May 5th. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...