I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... 2014 January 27 . From the Northern to the Southern Cross . ... Many sky wonders were captured then, including the bright Moon , inside the Milky Way arch; Venus , just above the Moon; Saturn and Mercury , just below the Moon; the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds satellite galaxies, on the far left; red airglow near the horizon on the image left; and the lights of small towns at several locations across the horizon . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... The Southern Cross ( Crux ) itself is at the right of the 20 degree wide field of view, topped by bright, yellowish star Gamma Crucis. A line from Gamma Crucis through the blue star at the bottom of the cross, Alpha Crucis, points toward the south celestial pole. Against faint Milky Way starlight, the dark expanse of the Coal Sack Nebula lies just left of the cross, while farther left along the Milky Way are the bright stars Hadar and Rigil Kentaurus , also known as Beta and Alpha Centauri . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on January 13, 2012 | No Comments The aurora is a stunning celestial event associated with EarthтАЩs polar regions. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on October 20, 2011 | ... Posted on September 26, 2011 | ... Posted on July 19, 2011 | ... Posted on May 27, 2011 | ... Time was originally defined and quantified through astronomy, and today astronomers are used to glibly talking of vast stretches of time. ...

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 . ...

... We present data for the additional lines after processing and baseline fitting H91, H92 within this HII region. Integrated line profiles for H90 (top left), H91 (top right) and H92 (bottom left) are all 16MHz bands with a resolution of 512. ... The radio recombination lines of hydrogen H90, H91, H92, helium He91 and carbon C91 were detected from OrionA, and H90, H91, H92 from M17 and NGC3603 at 8GHz. ... The recombination lines from left to right are H90 and H91. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Seeing Our Place in the Solar System . ... Planetary alignments let you see for yourself what those textbook diagrams of the solar system are trying to convey. Every once in a while, the planets line up in the sky in such a way that makes it easy to visualize how Earth fits into the solar system. ... The inner planets were near the western horizon shortly after sunset (see Figure 1). ...

FLICKER The flicker of the campfire , the wind in the pines The stars in the heavens, the moon that shines A place where people gather to meet friends of all kinds A place where old man trouble is always left behind So give me the light of a campfire , warm and bright And give me some friends to sing with, I'll be here all night Love is where you find it; I've found mine right here Just you and me and the ...

... Saturn is 2cm right of Zeta Tau. ... February: part of Pegasus (L) Aquarius (Bottom) part of Cygnus (Top Right) Delphinus Centre Right. ... May: Hyades (near Bottom Left), past Pleiades, Left, to Aries (top right centre) June: part of Cassiopeia, Top Left Centre, part of Cygnus Bottom Right: Gamma and Epsilon Cygni just above horizon, Deneb above them. ... M31 is slightly Top Left of Centre. (see below) September: Bottom of Square of Pegasus on Top Left, part of Aquarius Bottom Right. ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

... The Cross-Quarter Days thus mark the middle of each season under our current system, or seasonal boundaries under the alternative system. ... Beltane / Bealtaine - Celtic bonfire festival May 4-7 2nd Cross-Quarter Day May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico) May 2nd Sunday - Mother's Day May last Monday - Memorial Day ( Decoration Day , officially May 30) June 14 - Flag Day June 3rd Sunday - Father's Day June 20-22 2nd Quarter Day - Summer Solstice June 21 - Litha (Norse/Anglo-Saxon for ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why do the constellations and the Moon appear upside down from the Southern Hemisphere? ... From the Southern Hemisphere, any object or constellation that lies near the celestial equator (the imaginary line that divides the northern and southern halves of the sky) would appear both upside down and reversed left to right compared to a northern perspective. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... Scheduled for completion about 2006, the completed International Space Station will have a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. ... The assembled space station will provide the first laboratory complex where gravity, a fundamental force on Earth, can be controlled for extended periods. ... Hospitals, business parks and solar electric power stations that beam clean, inexpensive energy back to Earth are likely to dot the "space-scape" 40 years from now. ...

... The conference will be also partially hosted by the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Gubkin 8, 119991, Moscow . The nearest metro stations are: Akademicheskaya (orange line) from which there is a 15-minute walk or Leninsky Prospekt (orange line) and Universitet (red line) from which one may take a tram No. 3 or 39 to the stop ?ulica Gubkina?. ... The location of the conference room at the building of the Steklov Institute will be announced later. ... Location of the Steklov Mathematical Institute . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Style Examples . Wiki styles | ... PmWiki uses WikiStyles for styling text with color and other attributes. PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks. ... In addition, an author can define a style "shortcut" by using the define= property. For example, to define a style of %red% , one can use: . define=mystyle color=red% Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

... S/ 1981 S 15 174000 S/ 1981 S 16 220000 S/ 1981 S 17 231000 S/ 1981 S 18 185000 S/ 1981 S 19 186000 S/ 1995 S 1 137450 S/ 1995 S 2 139700 S/ 1995 S 3 141050 S/ 1995 S 4 146450 S/ 1995 S 5 140060 S/ 1995 S 6 139910 S/ 1995 S 7 139440 The first two groups are derived from analysis of Voyager 2 data reported in IAUC 6162 ; the third group is from HST observations during the May 1995 ring ... S/1995 S 3 orbits just outside the F ring and is apparently a shepherd moon . ... New Moons ....

Midnight And Noon . Articles | ... Never call 12 Midnight, 12 a.m. Never call 12 Midnight, 12 p.m. Never call 12 Noon, 12 a.m. Never call 12 Noon, 12 p.m. Always refer to the 12 o'clock during the middle of the night as 12 Midnight . ... Hence to express the time from 12 noon to 12 o'clock at night, we use the term p.m. and from 12 o'clock at night to 12 o'clock noon we use a.m. However 12 o'clock midday is neither ante meridian or post meridian. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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Rick Hedrick (left) and Joe Haberman (right) with an early prototype at the Planewave factory in September 2009. ... Rick Hedrick testing the CDK700 on October 8, 2010. The finished telescope was delivered by air freight from California to Toowoomba in July 2013, and then to the mountain by truck. A crane lifted the mount with the lower truss, including the primary mirror, into the dome. ... Rick Hedrick prepared the primary mirror in August. ... kielkopf at louisville dot edu . ...