... Date: 5 August 2008 01:38:52 BST . Subject: IAA Solar Day, Perseids, Sky at Night . ... PERSEID METEORS. The 'Old Faithful' of meteor showers is with us once again, now building up to the maximum rate expected on August 12. ... It is above the horizon all night from Irish/British latitudes, so some meteors can be seen as soon as the sky gets dark enough - say by about 11.30 p.m. б б  The maximum ZHR is forecast to be about 80, but please note that you won't actually see that rate! ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

... Eclipsed Moonlight from Connelly s Springs . ... Happily, skies over Connelly's Springs, North Carolina, USA were not mostly cloudy, as forecast, on the evening of November 8. In fact they were mostly clear early on, allowing photographer David Cortner to record the evening's scheduled celestial entertainment, a total lunar eclipse. ... Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot and the second human to walk on the Moon, described the lunar landscape as "a magnificent desolation". ... November . ...

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... Home Gallery Astrophotography Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Several lunar eclipses have been visible from the New York area as these photographs from AAA members show. ... Penumbral lunar eclipse, New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Phil Creed . ... Hidden Hollow 2008 . ... Prizes . ... Phil's "Home" Astronomy Club is the Wilderness Center Astronomy Club (http://www.twcac.org). ... This year, Phil will be hosting Astronomy Bowl , an exciting question-and-answer game that'll both enlighten and challenge the mind--for both the players and the audience. ... ASTRONOMY BOWL at Hidden Hollow! ... ASTRONOMY BOWL is the alternative for those that'd like to win a prize but never get that smile from Lady Luck come Raffle Time. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

... About ATMoB . ... Members . ATMoB’s 'Direction Workshop' . ... Help to chart out desired changes to the directions our ATMoB efforts take! This will be a special workshop evening to gather feedback and ideas from our members on how well our activities and efforts are aligned with your desires. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Even more from Cassini . ... 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 Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton invites its members to learn astro imaging! ... Well, here's your chance to kindle the motivation with like-minded AAAP members. ... Or you just want to learn more about astrophotography but you didn’t know where to turn. ... AAAP member and astrophotographer Brian Van Liew is preparing to host a AAAP SIG ( Special Interest Group ) covering digital astrophotography. ... Types of imaging equipment . ... All images on this page created by Brian Van Liew. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 20, 2012 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . To coincide with the television programme, Armagh Planetarium held a special night on Wednesday 18 January with the fantastic amateur astronomers from the Northern Ireland Amateur Astronomy Society (NIAAS) joining us. At the fore of night sky observing.... the NIAAS (Image credit: NIAAS) . ... Image credit: Julie Thompson, Armagh Planetarium) . ...

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... LINKS . ... SPECIAL TOPIC . CONTACT . ... ARTICLE: Venus Transit 2004 . ... AAL's Transit Observation Results . ... Divx video from the AAL observation site. ... a) Visual observation : Only with special eclipse shades ( do not use those ones you still have from the 1999's solar eclipse because it does no more protect you properly ) . ... 1. contact ( transit begins ) : 07:19 53 s with a solar altitude of 15.5 degrees . ... Venus Transit Links: . ... Venus Transit 2004: A Tremendous Success . ...

... SPACE.com) -- Streams of glittering stellar gems on the outer edges of Andromeda are remnants of an ancient galactic collision that helped shape the spiral galaxy. Astronomers using the DEIMOS spectrograph on the Keck II Telescope in Hawaii determined this by surveying Andromeda, our galaxy's nearest large galactic neighbor, and discovered a trail of stars which they believe were part of a different galaxy that merged with Andromeda some 700 million years ago. ... Headline News . ...

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The IV Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (November 16-23, 2008) : . ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2008 may participate in the APAO-2008 (that is a student may participate in the XIII IAO or in the IV APAO but not in both of these Olympiads). For the IV APAO the (age) group of participants to be analogous to IAO groups, rules 4.5.2-4. to be used (alpha group - "juniors" and beta group - "seniors"), i.e.: . ... The official APAO e-mail is a p a o [a] l i s t . ...

... 2008 February 20 . Moon Slide Slim . ... Explanation: No special filters - or even a telescope - are required to enjoy a leisurely lunar eclipse . ... To make it, astroimager Stefan Seip set his camera on a tripod and locked the shutter open during the total lunar eclipse of March 3, 2007. ... Reddish hues common during the total phase of a lunar eclipse, are evident along the darker, slimmer portion of the Moon trail. ... Tonight's eclipse is the last total lunar eclipse until December of 2010. ...

... 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). ...