... A Colorful Lunar Corona . ... 14.06.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: Sergio Montгfar Explanation: What are those colorful rings around the Moon? ... Rings like this will sometimes appear when the Moon is seen through thin clouds. ... The featured lunar corona was captured around a Strawberry Moon on June 2 from La Plata, Argentina. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - clouds - corona . Publications with words: Moon - clouds - corona . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 January 11 . A Colorful Solar Corona over the Himalayas . ... Explanation: What are those colorful rings around the Sun? ... This type of solar corona is a visual effect due to water in Earth's atmosphere and is altogether different from the solar corona that exists continually around the Sun -- and stands out during a total solar eclipse . ...

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. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

... This page provides some context for the Heritage release of the HST/ACS 14th anniversary images of what John A. Graham first positively identified as "a peculiar southern ring galaxy". The image data displayed below show the environment around the RN nuclear ring galaxy VV785 (a.k.a. AM0644-741, the Lindsay-Shapley Ring, or Graham's Ring Galaxy) in ground-based radio, IR, and optical wavelengths. ... Above are the SHASSA Continuum (left) and H-alpha images of the field around the ring galaxy. ...

... The Zodiacal light seen above the eastern horтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: The Zodiacal light seen above the eastern horizon nearly two hours before sunrise . Description: It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the sun. ... The Zodiacal light seen above the eastern horizon nearly two hours before sunrise It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the sun. ...

... As an experiment, I made some three-color images of Messier 42, more commonly known as the Great Nebula of Orion. ... green enhanced . ... halfsize or fullsize . ... Each image is a ``true color'' composite of three monochromatic images, in which the red, green, and blue intensities each correspond to the intensity of one of the original images. ... The HST image is assembled from different filters than mine: red is Nitrogen [II] at 6583 , green is H-alpha at 6563 , and blue is O [III] at 5007 . ...

... STScI-PRC95-02 HUBBLE VIEWS A STARRY RING WORLD BORN IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION [Right] - A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope true-color image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The new details of star birth resolved by Hubble provide an opportunity to study how extremely massive stars are born in large fragmented gas clouds. ...

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Villains and Heroes of Lights and Lighting Fixtures . If we are to reduce the effects of light pollution, we must learn about the types, both good and bad, of fixtures used in outdoor lighting. ... In fact, this type of fixture is often chosen for this very reason. ... Although these lamps are not very energy efficient, and they are often found in older, inefficient fixtures that enhance light pollution, they still exist in great abundance in most locations and are still sold by the millions. ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Why are the traffic lights Red, Amber and Green ? Why not blue or purple ? ... You are right that red is most easily seen through a fog, and I think this is why stop lights are red. ... This means that in a fog, a blue light might be completely invisible to you because all the blue light has been scattered away, while a red light more easily penetrates the fog. ... This is why the oceans are blue; they absorb red light so that only t