... 2015 September 27 . Tonight: A Supermoon Lunar Eclipse . Video Credit: NASA 's GSFC , David Ladd ( USRA ) Krystofer Kim ( USRA ) . Explanation: Tonight a bright full Moon will fade to red. ... In fact, by some measures of size and brightness, tonight's full Moon is designated a supermoon , although perhaps the "super" is overstated because it will be only a few percent larger and brighter than the average full Moon. ... Live Feed from NASA: Supermoon Eclipse 2015 . ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Sun vs Super Moon . ... To make it, the Full Moon on May 6 was photographed with the same camera and telescope used to image the Sun (with a dense solar filter!) on the following day. ... And for some the New Moon will be surprisingly easy to compare to the Sun, because on May 20 the first solar eclipse of 2012 will be visible from much of Asia, the Pacific, and North America. ... Publications with keywords: full moon - perigee - apogee - solar eclipse . ...

Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Bright prospects: Comparing the H Survey with large-scale radio continuum emission . ... Prospects for comparisons between the AAO/UKST H \ survey and large-scale radio continuum emission are considered, with particular reference to the recently completed Parkes 2.4-GHz survey of the southern Galactic Plane. ...

... 2001 January 18 . 2001: A Total Lunar Eclipse . ... Explanation: The first and only total lunar eclipse for the year 2001 occured on the evening of January 9/10 as the full Moon glided through Earth's shadow. ... The fact that the northern (top) portion of the eclipsed Moon is clearly brighter, even near mid-totality, demonstrates that Earth's shadow is not uniformly dark. Tomorrow's picture: Black Holes Are Black . ... About APOD | ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

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... PLE: Just another reminder about the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 14 - 15. ... The moon passes completely inside the penumbra, or 'partial shadow', of the Earth, but no part of it actually enters the umbra, which would give a partial eclipse. ... 22 March, 7.30 p.m., Lecture Room 5, Stranmillis College, Belfast: IAA Public Lecture, "The Solar Wind: from Explosions on the Sun to Us", by the redoubtable Dr Miruna Popescu of Armagh Observatory (Doctorate just awarded - congratulations!) ...

... On 27jan16 Felix and i found strong rfi coming from the turret control cabinet (huffman box in the gregorian receiver room). Checking the rfi gasket on the inside of the huffman box door, we found high impedance along the gasket (this was the old gasket with rubber impregnated with silver.. we've had problems before with this gasket material oxidizing.. ... start taking data with the huffman box closed, the turret powered on . ... Turn off all power to the turret control box. ...