... Credit Copyright: O Chul Kwon ( SoBaekSan National Observatory ) Explanation: There were two peaks to this year's Leonid Meteor Shower . ... Pictured above is an image of SoBaekSan National Observatory in Korea during the second Leonid peak , starting at 3:50 am local time. Visible in the background are numerous Leonid meteors bright enough to be seen over background light even during the 40-minute exposure. ... Publications with keywords: southern sky - Comet Linear WM1 - comet . ...

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... 2014 December 11 . Moondog Night . ... Explanation: In this night scene from the early hours of November 14, light from a last quarter Moon illuminates clouds above the mountaintop domes of Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. Bright Jupiter is just left of the overexposed lunar disk with a streak of camera lens flare immediately to the right, but that's no fireball meteor exploding near the center of the picture. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Click for more . ... Binary Star KL Dra . ... Pleasant March: slightly drier, milder and sunnier than average . 2016 April 7th . Cool, damp February with average sunshine; wettest winter for 139 years . 2016 March 16th . Discovering the stars at Armagh: Free St Patrick s day events hosted by Armagh Observatory . 2016 March 15th . ... Mild, wet January, slightly duller than average . ... 2016 January 15th . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 18, 1999 . Irregular Galaxy Sextans A . ... Their newly formed, bright, blue star clusters found along beautiful, symmetric spiral arms are guaranteed to attract attention. But small irregular galaxies form stars too , like this lovely, gumdrop-shaped galaxy, Sextans A . ... About APOD > . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.