Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 11.01.2012 . ... Credit Copyright: Alex Cherney ( Terrastro , TWAN ) Explanation: Once a bright apparition in the southern hemisphere dawn Comet Lovejoy is fading, but its long tail still stretches across skies near the south celestial pole. Captured on the morning of December 30th, the comet appears near edge of this little planet as well. ... January 2012 . ... Publications with keywords: comet - planet . Publications with words: comet - planet . ...

... 2012 January 11 . Little Planet Lovejoy . ... Explanation: Once a bright apparition in the southern hemisphere dawn Comet Lovejoy is fading, but its long tail still stretches across skies near the south celestial pole. Captured on the morning of December 30th, the comet appears near edge of this little planet as well. Of course, the little planet is actually planet Earth and the image was created from a 12 frame mosaic used to construct a spherical panorama . ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Sadly C/ 2014 Q2 will probably not be as spectacular a sight as Comet C/ 2011 W3 (Lovejoy), visible near Earth?s horizon in this nighttime image from the International Space Station on 22 December 2011. ... The comet made its closest approach to Earth on 7€а January 2015, at a distance of 72 million km (45 million miles).€а In January the comet will race though the constellations Eridanus, Taurus, Aries and Triangulum. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 1994 XD imaged using successively B, V and R colour bands on 2012 December 5th. Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... Prior to observing, we looked up the ephemerides for each object that we planned to observe using the Minor Planet Center website - this was to find the part of the night sky in which the object of interest was included. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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... In most situations, light helps us to see. But when it comes to looking at the night sky, light actually blocks our vision. ... You should be able to see around 2,500 stars with your naked eyes, but if you live in a big city or town, you probably see less than 10 stars on a normal night! This amazing space picture shows the shining star clusters and swirls of colourful gases of the Carina Nebula: an enormous expanse of gas, dust and stars lying deep in the heart of the Milky Way. ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

... J. Brand, M. Felli, R. Cesaroni, C. Codella, G. Comoretto, S. Di Franco, F. Massi, L. Moscadelli, R. Nesti, L. Olmi, F. Palagi, F. Palla, D. Panella, R. Valdettaro . 2007, IAU Symposium 242, p. 223 . ... 2007, ApJ, in press . ... Murphy, G. C., Lery, T., O'Sullivan, S., Spicer, D., Bacciotti, F., Rosen, A. 2007, A , in press . ... Rubini, F., Lorusso, S., Del Zanna, L., Bacciotti, F. 2007, A , in press . ... Coffey, D., Bacciotti, F., Ray, T.P., Eisloeffel, J., Woitas, J. 2007, ApJ, in press . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... 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) ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Science . ... All Pages . ... Research of the stars with planets which pass apparent star disk (transiting exoplanets). The transit method based on a detection star brightness decrease during a passing of planet in front of its disk. Observed brightness system decries when planet pass star disk and its volume depend of the relative sizes star and planet. ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

... Solar System Data . Tables of many physical and orbital parameters for each of the major bodies in the solar system. ... Lists of the biggest, smallest, brightest and densest bodies in the solar system and a list of those bodies least unsuitable for life. ... Lists of which bodies were discovered in each century since Galileo. ... Some interesting linguistic tidbits relating to the planets. ... Astronomical Names . ... The sites around the Net where The Nine Planets is located. ... Appendices .. ...

... Prof. N.N. Kiselev . ... Dr. V.K. Rosenbush . ... Kiselev N.N., Velichko F.P. (1998) Polarimetry and photometry of comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake. ... PDF file ] . Kiselev N.N., K. Jockers, V.K. Rosenbush et al. ... Kiselev N.N., Jockers K., Rosenbush V.K. (2002) Comparative study of the dust polarimetric properties in split and normal comets. ... Rosenbush V.K., Kiselev N.N., Velichko S.F. (2002) Polarimetric and photometric observations of split comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR). ...