Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica . ... 11.08.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: LI Hang Explanation: Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? Such 22 degree rings around the Moon -- caused by ice crystals falling in the Earth's atmosphere -- are somewhat rare. ... What is featured above might therefore be considered doubly rare -- a halo surrounding a blue moon. ... August 2015 . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - halo . Publications with words: Moon - halo . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 August 11 . A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica . ... Explanation: Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? ... What is featured above might therefore be considered doubly rare -- a halo surrounding a blue moon . The featured image was taken late last month near Zhongshan Station in Antarctica. ... About APOD | ...

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... This meeting, the first joint event between the Astronomical Science Group of Ireland (ASGI) and the Institute of Physics in Ireland (IoPI), was the largest astronomical conference ever held in Armagh, with nearly 140 registered participants. ... Figure 9: The Northern Ireland Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure, Ms Angela Smith MP, prior to the formal opening of the ASGI/IoPI meeting in St Patrick's Trian, Armagh, on 2 April 2004. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... July/August 2003 . Exclusive online sidebar: Determining the Earth-Sun Distance Using Mars . ... In late August, Mars will come as close to Earth as it ever gets. ... Sky Map and Sky Chat, Richard Talcott . July Sky Map | August Sky Map | September Sky Map . ...

... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on August 30, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment тАЬMars is red, Earth is Blue, WeтАЩve discovered lots of new worlds, And one of them is blue too!тАЭ So IтАЩm not a poet and I definitely know it! ... The Universe [ ] . ... Posted on July 31, 2013 | ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

We present new images of the reflection nebula surrounding the R Coronae Borealis Star, UW Centauri. ... Instead, the morphology of the nebula appears to change as different parts are illuminated by light from the central star that is modulated by shifting thick dust clouds near its surface. ... In this way, the central star acts like a lighthouse shining through holes in the dust clouds and lighting up different portions of the nebula. ... ADS Citation Query . citations = 21 . ...

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. ...

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Our publications in 2001 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Engels, D.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Ugryumov, A. V.; Kniazeva, T. F.; Pramsky, A. G.; Brosch, N.; Hagen, H.-J.; Hopp, U.; Izotov, Y. I.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Masegosa, J.; Marquez, I.; Martin, J.-M. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.366, p.771-787 (02/2001) . ... Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Lipovetsky, V.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. ... N.; Soboleva, N. S.; Temirova, A. V. Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. ...

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... Dongwon Kim , March 2014, on-going . ... Tammy Roderick , March 2011, on-going . Emma Kirby, *PhD completed August 2010* . ... Laura Dunn, *PhD completed December 2007* . ... David Nicholls, *PhD completed March 2014* . ... Antoine Bouchard, *PhD completed June 2006* . Emily McNeil, *PhD completed December 2010* . ... Eduard Westra, *PhD completed December 2007* . Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006* . Rami Rekola, *PhD completed December 2004* . ...

... Phase Correction Algorithms | ... R. Bolton, B. Nikolic, J. Richer, The Power Spectrum of Atmospheric Path Fluctuations at the ALMA Site from Water Vapour Radiometer Observations , ALMA Memo 592, PDF , ALMA Memo series entry . Emily I. Curtis, Bojan Nikolic, John S. Richer and Juan R. Pardo, Atmospheric dispersion and the implications for phase calibration , ALMA Memo 590. ... B. Nikolic, ALMA Phase Calibration/Correction , Presented at Algorithms 2008 Workshop, Oxford, December 2008. pdf . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 4 September 1998, 1010 UT (RR) . The expansion phase starts the active part of the substorm process. ... Start of the phase is called the onset of the substorm. ... Recently McPherron and Hsu (ICS-4 meeting, 1998) advocated a concept of "main substorm onset" to deal with observations of multiple onsets. ... Aggson, T. L., J. P. Heppner, and N. C. Maynard, Observations of large magnetospheric electric fields during the onset phase of a substorm, J. Geophys. Res. ...

... Building Museum Quality Replicas of Galileo's Telescopes . ... This month's meeting will feature Jim and Rhoda Morris speaking on their replicas of Galileo's telescopes. ... With their background as physicist and chemist and their experimental skills the authors set about to make the most accurate replicas of these telescopes in existence today. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...