... 2010 August 4 . Eclipse Shadow Cone Over Patagonia . ... Explanation: Sometimes, during a total eclipse of the Sun, a strange shadow of darkness can be seen stretching off into the distance. Called shadow cones, they are visible because the Earth's atmosphere is not completely transparent, scattering sunlight and hence appearing blue during the day. ... Visible above is a shadow cone caught during a sunset total solar eclipse visible last month from Patagonia , Argentina . ... About APOD | ...

... August 19, 1999 . Light From The Dark Sun . ... Explanation: Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible from Earth. ... In this series of images recorded from Siofok, Hungary during the total phase of the August 11 eclipse, progressively longer exposures (top left to bottom center) have been used to more faithfully capture different regions of the elusive solar corona. ... About APOD > . ...

... Credit Copyright: Damian Peach Explanation: A beautiful, reddened Moon slid through dark skies on April 15, completely immersed in Earth's shadow for well over an hour. It was the year's first total lunar eclipse and was widely enjoyed over the planet's Western Hemisphere. ... The dark Moon's red color contrasts nicely with bright bluish star Spica , alpha star of the constellation Virgo, posing only about two degrees away. ... April . ... April 2014 . ... Comet Meets Moon and Morning Star . ...

... Moon . ... What can astronomers tell us about the different colors on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa? ... We can use the colors of Europa s surface to tell us about the chemical compounds that make up the surface and subsurface of the jovian moon. Even before the first spacecraft made a close visit to Europa, astronomers on Earth used telescopes to study the moon and were able to use a technique called spectroscopy to determine that Europa s surface is composed mostly of water ice. ...

Armagh Observatory, 17 January 2000 . Sky watchers will be treated to the first total lunar eclipse of the year on the morning of Friday, 21st January, weather permitting. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon completely enters the dark shadow cast by the Earth. ... The most spectacular part of the eclipse, the total phase, lasts from 4:04 a.m. until 5:23 a.m. when the whole Moon is within the Earth's dark (umbral) shadow. ... Last Revised: 18th January 2000 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... Posts tagged ?incompleteness? ... Comment . ... The notions of missing data are overall different between two communities. ... Astronomers?I?m not sure how they think but my impression so far is that a missing value in one attribute/variable from a object/observation/informant, all other attributes related to that object become useless because that object is not considered in scientific data analysis or model evaluation process. ... 2 Comments . ... Entries RSS . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS)...

The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

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Lesson Plan #37 http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Lsun2vue.htm . An introduction to solar observations--by eye or telescope (with cautions) and during eclipse. Also, the distance of the Sun, its layers, the corona and the solar wind. ... This lesson plan supplements: (S-2) Our View of the Sun: on disk Sun2view.htm , on the web http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sun2view.htm . ... About the solar wind and its connection to the Sun's corona. ... How does one observe an eclipse? ... What is the solar wind? ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... No Comments With a тАШspace-exploration CVтАЩ big enough to eclipse the achievements of most of the other space probes in its class, the Cassini-Huygens orbiter has revealed much from one of our [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 23, 2014 | ... 4 Comments One of the latest members of the Solar System to be discovered, 2012 VP113 is a tiny isolated world in the outer Solar System. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Total Lunar Eclipse May 15-16 . ... Post Message | ... A total Lunar Eclipse. On the night of May 15-16 the Earth will come between the Sun and the Moon casting a shadow that will slowly cover the Moon. ... The last total Eclipse was on a day where it snowed 10? all day. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 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. ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... Bert improved his composite image showing details of the corona. ... He also did a better job of color correction, avoiding a false light bluish hue that was present near the 6 o'clock position on the moon's limb in the earlier image. ... of this image is the seventh-magnitude star SAO 109216. Submitted by Bernie Volz on 05/08/2006 22:12:59 . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Photos . Rainbow in Cambridge . ... Different phases of the lunar eclipse . ... Копосов Сергей , 2003-2007 . Koposov Sergey , 2007 ...

... Mr Sun Zheng-Wen and Mr Wang Wei Xia, engineers from the Urumqi Astronomical Observatory in China, have returned home with a new cryogenic L-band (18-cm) receiver built at the ATNF. ... The long-running Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey, a major survey of the Galactic plane using the 20-cm Multibeam receiver and dedicated pulsar filterbanks, was completed on 14 March 2002. ... The new 10/50 cm pulsar receiver is taking on impressive proportions. ...