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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 July 2 . Venus and Jupiter are Close . ... Explanation: On June 30, Venus and Jupiter were close in western skies at dusk. Near the culmination of this year's gorgeous conjunction , the two bright evening planets are captured in the same telescopic field of view in this image taken after sunset from Bejing, China. ... About APOD | ...

... Venus On The Horizon . ... Credit Copyright: STS 30 Crew , NASA Explanation: The month of October features a sky full of planets, including Venus as the brilliant evening star. Besides the sun and moon, Venus is the brightest object visible in Earth's sky. ... Because it is closer to the sun than Earth, Venus never strays far from the sun in its apparent position and is seen during the year as either a bright morning or evening star . ... October . ... Comet Meets Moon and Morning Star . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11 June 2015: Armagh Observatory reports that the next two weeks will provide an interesting opportunity to observe the brightest planet, Venus, and the largest planet, Jupiter, as they move towards one another in the evening twilight. ... The image shows the sky view towards the West at around 11pm on 20 June 2015. ... Professor Mark E. Bailey, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... June . ... Posted on February 8, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment In June 1882, at 30 years of age, John Dreyer was appointed Director of Armagh Observatory following the death of Thomas Romney Robinson, who had held the post for a [ ] . ... Posted on August 31, 2012 | ... 2 Comments ItтАЩs the beautiful clear morning of 6 June 2012 here in Armagh and the Sun is rising into a cerulean blue sky.But look closer, and you can see a tiny [ ] . ...

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... Marshall D. Perrin, Vacca, William D., & Graham, James R. 2009, Astronomical Journal Evidence for an Edge-on Disk Around the Young Star MWC 778 from Infrared Imaging and Polarimetry . ... Marshall D. Perrin, Gaspard Duchene, Paul Kalas, & James R. Graham. ... Marshall D. Perrin, James R. Graham, Paul Kalas, James P. Lloyd, Claire E. Max, Donald T. Gavel, Deanna M. Pennington, & Elinor L. Gates Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Imaging Polarimetry of Herbig Ae/Be Stars 2004, Science [astro-ph] . ...

This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Robert Halstead on 06/30/2015 23:19:35 . Planets Passing in the Night, June 30, 2015 . ... Captured using my Canon 6D at the prime focus of my 8-inch f/10 Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. ISO 1600, 0.6 seconds for the image at the left; and ISO 400, 1/50 second for the image at the right. Images captured between 8:57 and 9:02 pm EDT on June 30, 2015. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Blue Moon, What Is It? ... Moon | ... By popular acclaim, the second Full Moon of a calendar month is called a Blue Moon. ... If the last Full Moon of this calendar year comes after the December solstice but before New Year's Day, then it's inevitable -- the following year will have an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ... There are always thirteen Full Moons in a calendar year that hosts a "New Style" Blue Moon, and almost always twelve Full Moons during a calendar year that features an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2011 > Fornax, Virgo, Coma et al., 27 June - 1 July 2011 . ... Science Users Information . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Software . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Information resources . ... For more information contact: fornax_virgo2011@eso.org . ... Workshop: June 27- July 1, 2011. ...

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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... What sort of celestial sight can make children halt their games? And what can you do when they run over to where you are, too excited to stand in line, to get a look through a small telescope and ask questions in a language you only slightly comprehend? ... There are no observatories that we know about. ... The children wanted to know what a star looks like through the telescope, so we swung it over to Sirius. ...

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... Gallery . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . View full size . Title: Ganymede . Description: A close up view of Ganymede taken with the 24-inch (60cm) telescope at Siding Spring in October 1999. Areas of varying brightness define subtle differences in the surface terrain of the Moon. ... File name: ganymede.jpg . ... Ganymede A close up view of Ganymede taken with the 24-inch (60cm) telescope at Siding Spring in October 1999. ...

... Since moonshine is really reflected sunlight, the full Moon is on the average slightly brighter in mid-winter, when Earth is closest to the Sun. In addition, the distance of the full Moon also varies, due to the ellipticity ("eccentricity") of the Moon's orbit. On 22 December, 1999, the two effects combined to produce the brightest full Moon of the century. ... This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22nd, commonly called the first day of winter. ...

Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. ... Galileo scientists also are trying to determine the cause of the hole they found in Jupiter's magnetic field when the spacecraft was closest to Io. ...

... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK for 2015 (in Russian) . Foreword . ... NAY) is the daily visual geocentrical equatorial ephemerides of brightest navigational stars ? the Sun, the Moon, four major planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) and of the 69 brightest stars, and the time of the rising and setting of the Sun and the Moon, the time of the beginning and the end of civil and navigational twilights, the azimuths of the upper limb of the Sun on rising and setting. ...

... ATTENDANCE SURVEY: FIRST KEPLER SCIENCE CONFERENCE . If you are interested in attending the First Kepler Science Conference, please complete a short survey at: . ... The First Kepler Science Conference will be held 5-9 December 2011, hosted by the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. ... July 3-8, 2011 Bioastronomy Conference, Montpellier, France . ... April 26-29, 2010 Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2010 in League City, Texas . ... НАУЧНАЯ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ SETI - 2005 . ...