... It's life Jim, but not as we know it - Tuesday 2 December 2008 . ... God and the Universe: Thursday 20 November 2008 . John O'Neill will give a lecture to the IAS in Dunsink Observatory, Castleknock, Dublin, on Monday 1st, at 8 p.m. Entitled "Wonderful Eclipses: The Greatest Saros", it will look at some of the best total solar eclipses to be seen. Monday, 1 December 2008 12:42 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Moon . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Total lunar eclipse, December 21, 2010 . The first total eclipse of the Moon in nearly 3 years occurs the night of December 20/21. ... The totally eclipsed Moon December 20/21 lies in Taurus the Bull, near its order with Orion and Gemini. ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... March . ... Posted on May 20, 2015 | No Comments If you missed the Lyrids meteor shower in April, starting of May you had another chance to see some shooting stars as the Eta Aquarids meteor shower peaks on the [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 3 Comments Already the year 2015 is proving to be a great year for stargazing with planets, comets and meteorites gracing the skies but prepare for March as it brings a тАШmicro [ ] . ...

... 2002 December 9 . Moon Shadow Moves Over Africa . ... Explanation: When the Moon's shadow reached out and touched the Earth last week, the result was a solar eclipse . ... For this eclipse, racing along at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour, the Moon's umbra obligingly crossed over land along regions of Africa and Australia . ... The above movie follows the Moon's shadow as it crossed Africa during a similar eclipse in June 2001. ... About APOD | ...

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... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon . ... Total solar eclipse . ... An annular eclipse occurs when the apparent disk of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. ... Umbra: . ...

... Munching on Lunar Cheese . ... Rarely have most of us really watched a lunar eclipse. Let's observe the lunar eclipse this month and see what the shadow-play can teach us about Earth and its little mate. ... My grandparents came out, we sat on bales of hay in a field, ate our hot dogs and roasted marshmallows, and watched a huge full Moon fall into Earth's ruddy red shadow. ... The ancient Greeks knew this, too, and they saw Earth's circular shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses. ...

Partial Solar Eclipse of 2000 December 25 The eclipse visible in Central America, North America, the nothern Atlan- tic Ocean, and the northern Pacific Ocean. ... o ' Eclipse begins | ... 116 22.4 W Greatest eclipse 0.723| ... 74 03.2 W Eclipse ends | ... 0.91792 |+ ... 0.91793 |+ ... 0.91794 |+ ... 0.91795 |+ ... 0.39669 |+ ... 0.91796 |+ ... 0.39667 |+ ... 0.02665 | ...

... The March 20 total solar eclipse was visible over the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. ... Solar eclipses are of interest for radio astronomy, as they make it possible to observe individual details on the solar disc (spots, filaments, flocculi, etc.) ... On March 20, 2015 the integrated observations of the solar eclipse were carried out at the RATAN-600 radio telescope at 70 wavelengths simultaneously in the range of 1.65cm to 10cm with the 1% frequency resolution. ...

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

Next: Characteristics of the Up: The Epsilon Aurigae Previous: The Epsilon Aurigae . ... Epsilon Aurig? is an F0 Ia star with an enigmatic companion which partially eclipses the visible star for 2 years every 27.1 years. ... The eclipse light curve has a long, flat minimum (Figure ), implying that the secondary is not appreciably convex. ... We develop hydrostatic models for the Aurig? secondary in Section D.3 and present synthetic eclipse light curves calculated using these models in Section D.4. ...

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... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . My observations . NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... 2015 . ... December . ... December, 2015 . Visual indices of solar activity by author's observations . ... Average . ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

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