... 2003 November 25 . A Late Leonid from a Sparse Shower . Credit: Mauna Kea CONCAM , The Night Sky Live Project . Explanation: The 2003 Leonids Meteor Shower contained relatively few meteors. ... Pictured above is one of the brighter Leonids of 2003, caught by one of the continuously operating night sky web cameras (CONCAMs) of the global Night Sky Live project. ... Although the peak of the Leonids this year was on November 19, this meteor flashed through the sky the next night. ...

... A Late Leonid from a Sparse Shower . ... 25.11.2003 . ... Credit Copyright: Mauna Kea CONCAM , The Night Sky Live Project Explanation: The 2003 Leonids Meteor Shower contained relatively few meteors. ... Pictured above is one of the brighter Leonids of 2003, caught by one of the continuously operating night sky web cameras (CONCAMs) of the global Night Sky Live project. ... Although the peak of the Leonids this year was on November 19, this meteor flashed through the sky the next night. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

The broad background peak of activity of this year's Leonid meteor shower is expected to occur around dawn on the 17th November. ... It is anticipated that rates will be up to about 50 meteors per hour for a few hours around peak activity, under ideal conditions. ... According to Armagh Observatory astronomer, David Asher, and co-workers, there will be two additional peaks of activity after the broad stream peak. ... Leonid Meteor Pages . The unexpected 2004 Leonid meteor shower - PDF Format . ...

... This past spring, as Comet Hyakutake decorated our evening skies, I received a telephone call from an upset parent. We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" The exasperated mother said they found binocular and naked-eye views to be better than those through the telescope. ... They may be bright overall, but all that light is coming from a big area of space. ... OK, you say, I found Comet Hale-Bopp this evening. ... Does the comet have a tail? ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Observing . ... Leonid meteor shower peaks mid-November . During November, the Leonid meteor shower will produce up to 15 meteors per hour. ... Although the Full Moon that occurs on the same day as the Leonids peak November 17 will diminish the view, 15 meteors per hour still will radiate from the constellation Leo the Lion. ... Annually, the Leonid meteor shower deposits 12 13 tons of material across the planet. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

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On September 15, 1998, the STScI director, Dr. Steven Beckwith, announced a special observation opportunity to the astronomical community during the Leonid Meteor Shower. During the peak of the Leonid meteor shower on November 17, 1998, HST will be pointed near the anti-radiant for ten hours. Anyone who is interested can submit ideas to STScI for scientific observations during this time. ... There are no HST observations in the archives for objects in this field. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 19, 1999 . Mercury And The Sun . ... TRACE Project . Explanation: Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower , skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. ... About APOD > . ...

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... Observing . ... List of projects . ... The PPTA has the major goal of making a direct detection of low-frequency gravitational waves using pulsar timing observations. ... We provide below a summary of the research currently being carried out followed by possible future projects. Our Publications page contains a list of current publications that are based on PPTA data or research for the PPTA project. Reviews of the PPTA projects and goals were published by Hobbs (2005) and Manchester (2006). ...

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

... This building, that has a venerable history, appears to be oriented rather precisely along the East-West direction (the deviation is only 0.7 degrees), even though the natural horizon is disturbed by the presence of some mountains. ... A few useful Archaeoastronomy links . European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) . International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC) . ... Archaeoastronomy page of Victor Reijs . ... Back To Nando Patat Science Page ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this curtain rod object POV file . This is a macro for creating a shower curtain rod of any specified length, with base plates for mounting both ends to parallel walls. The rod shown in the top portion of the image was made with shower_curtain_rod(6) and is six units long, base plate to base plate. ... This web page, the associated image(s), and POV files are all copyright 2004 by Thomas A. Fine (that's me!) ...

... It turns out one possibility is a form of matter/energy invented by Einstein in the 1920s to make sure his equations of General Relativity did not predict the Expansion of the Universe. Although Einstein was willing to predict several things with his equations of General Relativity, he obviously thought an expanding Universe was too much, and so he invented the Cosmological Constant, which repels itself, and was meant to balance the force of gravity, and make the Universe static. ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

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