... 2008 August 5 . A Total Solar Eclipse Over China . ... Explanation: What's that black dot over the Sun? The Moon. ... The total solar eclipse was visible over a thin swath of Earth extending from northern Canada to China. As shown above, many sky enthusiasts gathered to witness the total or partial solar eclipse, which lasted only a few minutes. ... The next total solar eclipse will occur next July and be visible in parts of India and China. ... About APOD | ...

... A Total Eclipse for Europe . ... Credit: Fred Espenak ( GSFC ), NASA Explanation: The last total solar eclipse of this millennium will be visible for a few minutes tomorrow from a narrow path in Europe and Asia . There, millions of sightseers will witness the Moon move directly between the Earth and Sun , covering up the Sun completely. ... Publications with keywords: Sun - eclipse - Total eclipse - Europe - Moon . Publications with words: Sun - eclipse - Total eclipse - Europe - Moon . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 July 26 . Lingering Lunar Eclipse . Credit Copyright: Noel Munford (Palmerston North Astronomical Society, New Zealand) . Explanation: As the Moon passed almost directly through the center of Earth's shadow on July 16th, sky gazers in the Pacific hemisphere were graced by a lingering lunar eclipse . ... About APOD | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... The default run_state of all incoming runs is now OPEN . The support astronomer has to inform the operations support scientists if the run_state for a run has to be changed (e.g. after consulting the Database Consistency Check Page which is updated hourly from 9:30 to 17:30, Garching time) . The default run_state of all SM runs for next period is NEXT . By default, all NEXT runs will be set to OPEN at the start of the new period. ... COMPLETED or TERMINATED . ... COMPLETED . ...

... 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. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Armagh Observatory reports that, if skies are clear on the night of 27/28 September, skywatchers will witness a rare total eclipse of the Moon during the early hours of Monday 28th. ... As the eclipse progresses from penumbral to partial phase, and then towards totality, it is interesting to observe how the dark shadow of the Earth slowly encroaches on the Full Moon until the Moon is nearly completely obscured. ...

This lesson is optional. It presents one of two methods by which ancient Greek astronomers estimated the distance to the Moon. ... This lesson plan supplements: "How distant is the Moon?--2," section #8d: on disk Shipparc.htm , on the web . ... Terms: Solar eclipse (total and partial) (terms umbra and penumbra may be used by the teacher for total and partial shadow), baseline, parallax. ... The Earth-Sun distance and Earth-Moon distance vary due to the elliptical orbits of the Earth and the Moon. ...

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" . ...

... Any water on Mars is locked up in the ice caps. ... The most recent successful mission to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory better known as the Curiosity rover. ... CuriosityтАЩs primary role is to search for conditions that may have once been able to harbour any sort of bacterial life concealed beneath the Martian surface. ... Using what we know about life on Earth, where there is water, there is life, signs of water may help us understand what Mars was like billions of years ago. €а . ...

The 2.6 kernel contains a long list of changes which affect device driver writers. As part of the task of porting the Linux Device Drivers sample code to 2.6, your humble LWN Kernel Page author is producing a set of articles describing the changes which must be made. ... November 25, 2003) The entire set of articles has been updated to reflect the 2.6.0-test10 kernel. ... Timekeeping changes (November, 2003; 2.6.0-test9); changes to how the kernel manages time and time-related events. ...

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. ...

... Data . AAS 221 . AAS 219 . ... The first thing to note is that Twitter does not guarantee to return all matching Tweets, whatever method is used (unless you have direct access to their "fire hose", which I don't). ... This should result in the same results as my REST-based search (method 2), since the volume of Tweets was probably not enough to cause this site to miss Tweets based on their collection strategy . ... A search for the tag #aas219 (case insensitive) using the Twitter REST API . ...

... 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. ...

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... Previous: Literature and Catalogs in Electronic Form: Questions, Ideas and an Example: the IBVS . ... Astronomers can use the ADS to maintain their publication lists; a simple http link can bring a current bibliography at any time. ... For example the following links to Martha Hazen's bibliography. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abs_connect?author=hazen,m. &aut_syn=YES&nr_to_return=all . ... To have a complete bibliography via ADS one needs but to add the missing articles into ADS. ...

... Full silvery Moon illuminates terrain. ... Begun a next moon eclipse, when Land barriers a Moon from the Sun and throws its shade on it. ... Drawing 1. ... Drawing 6 Drawing 6 shows a splendid photo of full moon eclipse 18-19 november 1975 during is packed phases doing Dennis de Chikko. ... Eclipse, which will occur 9 november 2003, is a repetition through сарос (cycle of repetitions of eclipses equal 6585 days or 18 years 11 days) full moon eclipse from 28 octobers 1985 with the maximum phase 1,07....

... 24sep08: long recovery vs alfa rotation angle. ... On 23sep08 around 14:00 hours data was taken with alfa on the sky to see how long the recovery took. ... 2 172 MHz Bands per beam . ... On 24sep08 around 17:00 data was taken with alfa and the pdev spectrometer to measure the long recovery time versus the rotation angle of alfa. ... As alfa rotates, different beams have larger/smaller recovery times. ... This is the same data as the total power plots above. beam 0 alfa rotation= 0 deg . ... page up ...

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... 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. ...