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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... January . ... By admin February 20, 2013 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... M42, the Great Nebula in Orion, imaged through Armagh Planetarium?s telescope in January 2013. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, imaged with the new telescope in January 2013. ... Armagh Planetarium?s new telescope in action in January 2013. ...

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The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

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Here are listed the largest , brightest and densest of the major bodies in the solar system and those with best prospects for life. ... Earth is the tiny spot between Jupiter and the Sun). This composite shows Earth and the remaining 11 large solar system objects at a scale of 100 km/pixel. ... Note : Neptune is slightly denser than Uranus. ... But even if no life exists on other bodies in our solar system, it seem to be likely that there's probably life elsewhere in our galaxy. ... Extrema .. ...

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Discussions about the observing strategy for the HDF-S focussed primarily on the questions: . What filters/gratings to use for each instrument ? What exposure time to use for each filter/grating ? ... Different areas of the Version 1 output image correspond to variable amounts of exposure time, due to the relatively large pointing shifts necessitated by the multi-instrument observing strategy. ... WFPC-2 Filters, exposure times and limiting AB magnitudes for Version 1 images . Filter . ...

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... Records were made this January when the RadioAstron satellite was joined by ground-based telescopes, forming a radio telescope 220,000 km across тАУ roughly 20 times larger than the Earth. RadioAstron , a Russian orbital telescope of 10 meter diameter, joined with ground-based observatories to resolve objects 50 times smaller than is possible with the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Images: . The RadioAstron spaceantenna observes a celestial radio source simultaneously with ground-based dishes. ...

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... A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers who set up their telescopes and observe the dynamic night sky. ... Star parties are best scheduled during first quarter and waxing gibbous Moon. During full moon, the moon is so bright it obscures a view of other celestial objects and even the Moon is best viewed when NOT full. ... We will consult local weather forecasters and make a decision by 2:00p on the day of the star party. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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Titan . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images of Titan's surface . ... Later that year, it will release the European-built Huygens probe for a descent through Titan's atmosphere. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... This artist's rendering shows the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...

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... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

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... 142,800 Mean density (kg/m^3) .. ... 5.203 Rotation period (length of day in Earth hours).. 9.8 Revolution period (length of year) (in Earth years). 11.86 Obliquity (tilt of axis) (degrees).. 3.08 Orbit inclination (degrees).. 1.3 Orbit eccentricity.. 0.048 Mean surface temperature (K)........................ 120 (cloud tops) Visual geometric albedo.. 0.44 Atmospheric components.............................. 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, .07% methane Rings.. ...

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... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Canon of solar eclipses in Russia for the interval 1000--2050 M. V. Lukashova, L. I. Rumjantseva Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia Solar eclipses are quite rare events. ... The Canon contains the basic data about the solar eclipses observed in ter­ ritory of the former USSR (in boundaries of 1990) from 1000 to 2050 with the magnitude of phase exceeding 0.1. ... Beginning from 1887 several canons of solar eclipses were published. ...

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