... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 3, 1997 . A Partial Eclipse in Southern Skies . ... Explanation: Location is everything, especially if you want to see a Solar Eclipse . ... He used a video camera equipped with a teleconverter and solar filter. This Solar Eclipse was a partial one, seen here near maximum for Staiger's location. ... About APOD > . ...

... Credit Copyright: Rudi Dobesberger ( Sternfreunde Steyr ) Explanation: An unusual triangle of light is visible this time of year just before dawn, in the northern hemisphere. Once considered a false dawn , this triangle of light is actually zodiacal light , light reflected from interplanetary dust particles . The bright reflecting triangle is clearly visible on the right of the above horizontally-compressed image taken just after sunset from Namibia in the southern hemisphere in 2009 June. ...

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. ...

... September 5, 1998 . The Pulsar Powered Crab . Credit: J. Hester and P. Scowen ( ASU ), NASA . ... Using a stunning series of visible light images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) , astronomers have discovered spectacular pulsar powered motions within the Crab nebula. Highlights of this HST Crab "movie" show wisps of material moving away from the pulsar at half the speed of light, a scintillating halo, and an intense knot of emission dancing, sprite-like, above the pulsar's pole. ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin October 4, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A tiny second moon.This is Phobos (27 km across) seen over Mars by ESA's Mars Express (Image credit:ESA) . ... They concluded that at any given time Earth probably has a second moon. ... But, just perhaps, briefly the Earth had a second natural satellite seen by thousands of people.Remember the spectacular fireball witnessed over the UK and Ireland on 21 September 2012 ? ...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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... Even the most modest telescope reveals the beauty of Saturn's rings. ... For details on observing the rings, see "Running Rings Around a Planet," Mercury , September/October 1996, p. 9.] Eerie rings. ... From Earth, we can see the three main rings. ... Conveniently for observers on Earth, the rings are tipped by Saturn's 27-degree tilt. ... When the twin Voyager spacecraft flew by Saturn in the early 1980s, they discovered that the main rings consist of hundreds of ringlets (see photo below). ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... Photos . Aspen, view from the riding gondola . ... Colorado, mountains around Aspen . ... The Duluth's drawbridge . ... The Duluth's railroad museum . ... My brother . ...

The CDK20 North is seen in November 2012 with its new A200HR mount, Apogee 16M camera, and Optec IFW-3 filter wheel. The Sirius dome of the CDK20 North is seen in May 2010, and the telescope is visible through the open shutter. ... Brad Carter (left) and Rhodes Hart (right) of the University of Southern Queensland visited their northern Shared Skies CDK20 at Moore Observatory in September 2009. ... Microswitches were added to limit the range of polar axis rotation on the original mounting. ...

... The Russian TESIS/ CORONAS-PHOTON Solar Observatory, which has been working in orbit since January 30th, 2009, has photographed one of the most important events in the build up to the upcoming solar cycle - the formation of our star's new southern belt of activity. The first magnetic fields of the new cycle in the southern hemisphere appeared on the Sun's surface on May 23-24th. ... The belt of activity is one of the primary concepts, characterizing the solar cycle. ...

... Universal time of geocentric conjunction h m s in right ascension 2007, September 11, 13 42 40.3 Geocentric coordinates of the Sun h m s s h Right ascension . 11 17 34.06+ 8.981( T-14 ) б? ' " " h Declination . ... 15 00.18- 0.274(T-14 )+0.001(T-14 ) s T - universal time in hours ( TT - UT1 = 66.0 ) General Circumstances of the Eclipse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phenomena | ... 0.99675 |+ ... 0.99676 |+ ... 0.99678 |+ ... 0.99679 |+ ... 0.99680 |+ ...

Plasma phenomena occuring at one place in the magnetosphere also affect other locations This linkage is most pronounced between points that share the same field line, since field lines guide the motion of ions and electrons. ... It follows that the places on Earth most sensitive to distant magnetic effects are the "polar caps" , the regions around the magnetic poles. A good example is the polar aurora . ... way polar field lines . ... and to the Sun . ... Next Stop: #26H. Polar Cap--History . ...

... 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 . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... Year of Pluto . ... Neptune completes its first circuit around the Sun since its discovery . The planet plods along in its huge orbit, slowly completing one revolution approximately every 165 years. ... Under the Sunт??s weak pull at that distance, Neptune plods along in its huge orbit, slowly completing one revolution approximately every 165 years. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...