... 2003 August 18 . Bright Lights, Dark City . ... A large power outage in northeast North America , however, dimmed most city lights and brought unfamiliar celestial wonders to many who looked up. ... Prominent in the above four-image digital montage are two of the few celestial wonders that can be seen even above the usual glare of city light pollution : the Moon and Mars . ... Tomorrow's picture: Mars Approaches . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Usually, the reflection of city lights off of local air impurities makes it hard for casual observers to see more than a handful of stars from a bright urban area . ... Prominent in the above four-image digital montage are two of the few celestial wonders that can be seen even above the usual glare of city light pollution : the Moon and Mars . ... Scrolling right will show how eerily dark New York City appeared from across the Hudson River in New Jersey at about 10 pm on 2003 August 14. ... August ....

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

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. ...

November 2006 Astronotes 1 Candles in the Dark Image Credit: Wikipedia.org By Colin Johnston, Science Communicator Since the mid-ninteenth century astronomers have used the principle of parallax to measure the distance to other stars. ... How then can we tell, for example, that M31, the galaxy in Andromeda, is 2.2 million light years away? It would be straight-forward to tell how far away a star was if it was exactly the same brightness as our own Sun. ...

... 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. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... It is indeed a feeble light that reaches us from the starry sky. ... The 9th European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky takes place from September 17th - 19th 2009 in Armagh, Ireland. ... Armagh City and District Council Policy - PDF Format . ... Light Pollution and Armagh Poster - PDF format . ... Parliamentary Report, Light Pollution and Astronomy - PDF Format (862K) . ... Is light pollution killing our birds?...

... 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 > . ...

In version 2 of the data reduction, we include frames where there is some visible scattered light, but where the background is still reasonably low (not more than a few times the minimum background). ... Briefly, the scattered light subtraction was done by registering the bright and dark images, subtracting the dark from the bright to remove the source, smoothing to remove any residual sources left over after the subtraction, and subtracting this smoothed sky image from the bright frame. ...

... In this activity, students will observe that the faintest stars which they can see in the sky are affected by many things: the adaptation of their eyes to the dark, the presence of clouds or haze, the time of year, and the presence of light pollution. General Information . ... After completing this activity, students should have a better understanding of the practical processes for dealing with the light pollution problem and with other environmental and societal issues. << previous page | ...

... NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission studies the shape, brightness, size and distance of distant galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history, giving scientists a wealth of data to help us better understand the origins of the universe. ... This image is a blend of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's M33 image and another taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ... Spitzer, for example, can detect mid-infrared radiation from dust that has absorbed young stars' ultraviolet light. ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter)тАЭ ? Charles Keeton . ... Charles Keeton , associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University and faculty director of the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates , will speak to the AAA Friday, March 2, on тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter).тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the€а American Museum of Natural History . ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

... Gallery . ... Between Light and Dark Matters, 24 Feb 2005 . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: Between Light and Dark Matters, 24 Feb 2005 . Description: An ephemeral exhibition of an artwork by ANU student Ruth Watson, using the data set of the 2dFGRS. Art Exhibition in the Yale-Columbia, February 2005 . ... Owner: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 1670 . By: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 1562 . ... Views: 1550 . ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

B?rbel Koribalski (ATNF) + HIPASS and ZOA teams . Velocities are color coded in bins of 1000 km/s: . dark blue . ... light blue . cross . 1000 . green . ... HVCs? ... All the new galaxies, most of which are at |b| All the new galaxies are marked in blue, HI clouds in green and HVCs in orange. (plot by Malte Marquarding, aips++). bkoribal @ atnf.csiro.au ...

... The picture shows sketches of the optical and ultraviolet (top, left) and X-ray (top, right) spectra of a typical quasar or AGN (Active Galactic Nucleus). These spectra are full of sharp features due to the interaction of atoms with light ('atomic features'). They can be high (= bright) points, called 'emission lines' or low (= dark) points, called 'absorption lines' . ... Broad Emission Lines ("BELs") [seen in 100% of AGN], . ... Broad Absorption Lines ("BALs") [see in only 10% of AGN], . ...

... Bright eastern skies, White cliffs arise, See the new day break, Fisherman awake, Small boats fall and rise, To the fishers' cries, See the dories coming, Pray for herring running, In the day's bright sun, See the net-lines run, See the long lines flowing, Deep in Forth they're going, See the net-lines hauled in, Light loads are trawling, Run the nets once more, Off the cold Fife Shore, Turn again to ...