... 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. ...

... A cosmic grain of sand left the long and colorful trail across this all-sky view. ... Diamond Ring and Shadow Bands . ... As the total phase of last week's solar eclipse came to an end, sunlight streaming past the edge of the Moon created the fleeting appearance of a glistening diamond ring in the sky. ... Most of the total eclipse track fell across the southern Pacific, but the Moon's dark umbral shadow began its journey in northern Australia on Wednesday morning, local time. ...

... 2002 December 3 . Eclipse Over Acacia . ... Explanation: On December 4th , for the second time in as many years, the Moon's shadow will track across southern Africa bringing a total solar eclipse to African skies. ... Observers directly in this path could catch at most a minute or so of the eclipse at its total phase, but at least a partial eclipse will be visible over much of Africa, Australia , some parts of Indonesia, and eastern Antarctica. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Australia?s 2002 Total Eclipse of the Sun . ... A total eclipse of the Sun is arguably the most awesome sight in all of nature. Day is suddenly replaced with an eerie twilight and the Sun?s brilliant disk is blocked by the dark Moon. ... This incredible spectacle is visible once every year or two when the Moon?s small dark umbral shadow races across our planet?s surface. The ensuing path of totality is typically about 150 kilometers wide but can stretch halfway around the globe. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

The corona (Sun's atmosphere) as photographed from Manavgat, Antalya, Turkey by John McFarland. The second diamond ring effect, signalling the end of totality as photographed from Manavgat, Antalya, Turkey by John McFarland. The recent solar eclipse, visible as a partial eclipse from Northern Ireland, was total across parts of Turkey. The Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies (IFAS) organised a trip to Turkey to view totality on 2006 March 29. ... Last Revised: 2006 April 11th . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... March . ... The extent of the solar eclipse of 3 November€а 2013 at 13:22 UTC as seen from Accra, Ghana. We will see a similar sight.€а (Image credit: Kwabena under Creative Commons Licence) . ... Your viewing location is not important as long as it offers an unobstructed view of the south eastern sky.. ... You can use ?eclipse glasses? to view the Sun, these are made from aluminized Mylar filter material. ...

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. ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... First Contact Moon begins to move over Sun from West Starts at ~5:44:45 AM (about 10 minutes after sunrise) Must observe sun with filter! Good time to check and adjust mount tracking and alignment Watch for sunspots 6/21/ 2001 - Zambia ( Mario Motta ) First Contact Crescent images of Sun Natural pin-holes such as leaves on trees Pin-holes in cardboard Mario Motta Watch sky and environment Gradually darkens Temperature drops 8/11/1999 Hungary (Eric Pauer) ~1 min Before Second ...

... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

AAL Guestbook . Please Sign Our Guestbook . Guestbook Entries: 147 . Add Entry | ... Previous Page | Next Page . ... Sarnia Canada, . ... Sarnia Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada . ... Signed on at . Bernhard Hдusler . ... Bernhards Kometen Projekt . Super, super, super . ... Bernhard , comet photographer from Germany . ... Super Homegage,schein Biller ann Super Info iwwert Eclipse99. ... Toronto, Ontario, Canada, . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... This first Snack of the year 2000 (yes, I am one of those who says the Millennium begins in 2001) will talk a little about a wonderful event: a total lunar eclipse. On the evening of Thursday, January 20 (or the early morning Friday, January 21 if you lives east of England) the Moon will go undergo one of the best eclipses it can. ... The Moon stays in the Earth's shadow in a lunar eclipse longer the Earth stays in the Moon's shadow during a solar eclipse. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

The First Law (1): Energy is Conserved in a closed system: . ... We usually consider work and heat flow as the two kinds of energy . The Second Law (2): The Law of Entropy: . ... The amount of disorder increases . ... You can not go from a disordered system to an ordered system without inputting more energy (this is the most important attribute of the second law) . ... In no way can we recover work of that this disordered system without putting energy into the system. ... More on Thermodynamics . ...

... A dynamic spectra was made of the calOff spectra (1 second samples) for the 15 minutes (.gif) . The hcorcal Tsys values for 2012 were plotted (.ps) ( .pdf ) . The Tsys values for polA have been jumping around. ... mock spectrometer measured 21 MHz bw spectra centered at 432 MHz. 2 millisecond dump time to give 10 samples on calOn,calOff . ... CalOff/(calOn-caloff) * Tcal . ... Black is polA, red is polB. ... The 430 Tsys is measured at +/-.5 MHz about 431 MHz. black is polA, red is polB . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Picture of the Day . ... What would a uranian day and year be like? What path across the sky would the Sun follow? ... Uranus extreme tilt of 82 (Earth tilts 23.5 ) makes for some exotic seasons, but let s start at equinox, when the Sun shines directly over the uranian equator; on that day, the skies would seem fairly ordinary. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... The path of the Sun across the celestial sphere is very close to that of the planets and the moon. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This pan sequence shows many fascinating details in a detailed view of part of the Carina Nebula that was created from images through red, green and blue filters taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile. The second half of the pan shows the unusual hot massive young star WR 22, a member of the rare class of WolfтАУRayet stars. ...

XMM-Newton EPIC TTD Meeting Preparation for next eclipse season 7th Feb 2001 Mauro Casale ESA H/Q: 7th February 2001 XMM 1 Facts / lessons learned from previous eclipses 1) the eclipses will occur before perigee in the period 19-03- 2001 / 24-04- 2001 2) the shortest time between end of eclipse and Perigee time is about 22 minutes; in most of the other cases it is around 30-31 ... T0 - 1.6/1h: Eclipse start. ... ESA H/Q : 7th February 2001 XMM 7 ...