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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. ...

... Subject: Lectures, Awesome Universe, Conjunction, ISS, Geminids, IAA NY Party, weblinks . Date: 4 December 2012 15:09:24 GMT . ... 4.€аVenus, Mercury and Moon: conjunction. ... 7.€аIAA New Year Party. ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2239715/NASA-scientists-develop-nuclear-powered-probe-deep-space-exploration.html . ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2235460/A-planet-born-Astronomers-capture-super-Jupiter-challenging-ideas-formations-new-worlds.html . ...

... Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, nearly making it the record holder. ... A dark Sun hung over Queensland, Australia on Wednesday morning during a much anticipated total solar eclipse. ... As the Moon moves to completely cover the Sun in a total solar eclipse -- like the one set to occur over parts of Australia on Tuesday -- beads of bright sunlight stream around the edge of the Moon...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... UBV Photometry of the Massive Eclipsing Binary TT Aur . ... UBV observations of the massive binary system TT Aur were carried out mainly at the Turkish National . ... Keywords: stars: binaries -- stars: mass transfer -- binaries: close -- stars: individual (TT Aurigae) -- photometry: stars -- techniques: miscellaneous . ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

... English (Australia) . ... Solar Eclipse at ESO HQ - 11.08.1999 . ... This is the light-curve of the variable stellar system NN Ser, as extracted from the drift exposure shown in ESO Press Photo eso9936 . ... Various properties of the two stars in the NN Ser system may be determined from the shape of the light-curve. The fact that the light-curve is "flat" at the bottom is a clear sign that the eclipse is total, i.e. the hot white dwarf star is completely hidden behind the cool red dwarf star. ...

... January 8, 2007 . ... SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT . Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have discovered a surprisingly massive halo of bright, old stars around our galactic neighbor Andromeda, pushing the outer limits of the galaxy to 1.5 million light years, and teaching them how spiral galaxies behave. ... Younger stars may be remnants of a galaxy devoured, but older stars could have formed with the birth of the galaxy. ... http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/January/08/local/stories/03local.htm . ...

... 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. ...

... Final astrometric results. ... 2009MNRAS_394_1037E Informations. relative to: reference body is an occulted or eclipsed satellite . reference frame: astrometric centre of frame: topocenter for mutual occultation or heliocenter for mutual eclipse epoch of equinox: J2000 time scale: UTC reduction: from mutual occultations and eclipses coordinates: Position angle (topocentric for mutual occultation or heliocentric for mutual ... Hour of the astrometric data (UTC) 7. ...

... Sun . ... A total solar eclipse touches Australia . ... The most spectacular event of 2012 occurs November 13/14 as the Sun, the Moon, and Earth line up once again to create a total solar eclipse. ... Remote observing note: Join Astronomy Contributing Editor Bob Berman in Cairns, Australia, as he broadcasts the total solar eclipse live with SLOOH Space Camera at http://events.slooh.com . ... Learn more about this year's total solar eclipse in the December issue of Astronomy , on newsstands November...

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Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬThe Astronomical Future of HumankindтАЭ ? Alex Wolszczan . ... Lecture Series 2011-2012 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

Solar Eclipses Notice that both the Sun and the Moon appear in the sky to be about the same size: half of a degree. ... The Earth would cast a shadow on the Moon when they were all three lined up. When the Moon blocks the Sun, we call it a solar eclipse. The other eclipse is when the Sun-EarthMoon lineup is in effect, and the Earth blocks the Moon. ... Lunar eclipses, however, are easier to see, since the shadow of the Earth on the Moon is quite large. ...

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. ...

... The Round Earth . ... Aristarchus around 270 BC derived the Moon's distance from the duration of a lunar eclipse (Hipparchus later found an independent method). ... Let R be the radius of that circle and T the time it takes the Moon to go around once, about one month. ... Viewed from Earth, a "new Moon" (occuring between the time a thin crescent is last seen before sunrise and the time one is seen shortly after sunset) happens when the Moon in its apparent motion around the sky overtakes the Sun. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Your main research interests concern neutral hydrogen. ... That means that there must be enormous quantities of gas lying around, waiting for the chance to collapse under its own weight into lumps and form stars and galaxies. If we could actually observe this gas, as it moves around and assembles itself into lumps, we would be directly observing the process of galaxy formation. ... Optical astronomers seem to think that they can observe galaxy formation by taking optical images. ... In galaxies. ...

... 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. ...