... Comet Hyakutake on a Starry Night . ... 23.04.1996 . ... Credit: Vic Winter , Courtesy ICSTARS Explanation: It was a starry night in April (April 9th, 1996, 9:32 pm CDT to be exact) near Lone Jack, Missouri when Comet Hyakutake graced this astronomically rich field . ... Latest Comet Hyakutake images: APOD Hyakutake Archive, JPL , Fayetteville Observer-Times , NASA's Night of the Comet , ICSTARS , Jerry Lodriguss , ScienceWeb , Crni Vrh Obs. ... Publications with keywords: comet - comet Hyakutake . ...

... April 18, 1996 . Hyakutake, Venus, Orion, and Pond . ... Explanation: Can you find Comet Hyakutake in the above picture? In this gorgeous photo, the starry night sky of April 9th is pictured with its new comet visitor. ... At the center, the brightest object in the picture is the planet Venus . ... Latest Comet Hyakutake images: APOD Hyakutake Archive , JPL , Fayetteville Observer-Times , NASA's Night of the Comet , ICSTARS , Jerry Lodriguss , ScienceWeb , Crni Vrh Obs. ... Archive | ...

... 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....

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... May 1, 1996 . Comet Hyakutake and a Cactus . ... Today Comet Hyakutake reaches its closest approach to the Sun . Comet Hyakutake is now at its intrinsic brightest, but because of its distance from the Earth , it will appear less bright to us than it did during its closest approach to the Earth in late March. ... Latest Comet Hyakutake images: APOD Hyakutake Archive , JPL , Fayetteville Observer-Times , NASA's Night of the Comet , ICSTARS , Jerry Lodriguss , ScienceWeb , Crni Vrh Obs. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... From left to right, astronaut Claude Nicollier, author Jeff Bennett, astrophysicist Mario Livio, and astronomer James Kaler sign copies of recent books and photos. Photo Credit: Robert Naeye . ... Author William Sheehan (left) and new ASP Board member David H. Levy (red shirt) sign copies of their latest book. ... ASP Board member Jeanne Bishop and ASP Editorial Assistant Marilyn Delgado discuss the Annual Meeting at the registration desk. ... Photo Credit: Diane Richards . ...

NOTE: The next meeting is April 2, 8:30 AM. STATUS REPORTS 1. ... WFPC2 Status - Proceeding nominally with Cycle 6 science and remaining SMOV monitors. ... NICMOS Status - Engineering Status - Following the 7042 Fine Alignment activities on Friday, the Filter Wheels were reconfigured to the nominal pre-positioning (FW1=F110M, FW2=FW3=F160W). ... STIS Status - Engineering Status - Over the weekend, a CCD motor temperature went slightly out of limits low. ... Go back to the Meeting Minutes Page ...

Moon, Planets And Aurora, Oh My! Articles | ... Moon | ... How often do we see several planets and the Moon together? ... Then I look northeast and see more red through all the light pollution of Washington, D.C. I snapped this 15 second photo. ... What started out as a father son photographic safari for rare planet conjunctions turned into a spectacular night of memories. ... Aha, I see some red light near Orion. ... A Very Rare Red Aurora in Northern Virginia, . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

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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. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

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Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

List of publications . ... Moscow University Press. 160 pp. ... Shevchenko V.V. A Lunar Base. Moscow. ... Shevchenko V.V., Chikmachev V.I. Lunar Base - a Project of XXI Century. ... Shevchenko V.V., Pugacheva S.G., Dehktereva K.I. Brightness Characteristics of the Infrared and Visible Radiation of the Lunar Surface. ... Problems of Complex Research of the Moon. ... Solar System Research. ... Baydal G.M., Sizentzev G.A., Sotnikov B.I., Shevchenko V.V. Lunar Base Infrastructure and Lunar Resources. ...

SDSS Readiness Review Meeting: April 25 - 27, 2000 . Sloan's readiness review meeting went off without too many hitches. ... The photos below are only of the dinner held at APO Wednesday night; no photos were taken at the meeting site or executive sessions. L) Steve Smee/UMd and John Anderson/FNL chat over lemonade before dinner is served. ... top left) Mike Crisler/FNL walking through the crowd . ... top right and at left) we had tables set up everywhere but most folks wanted to eat outside. ...

The International Astronomical Union XXVII General Assembly, . ... 1. the IAU/UNESCO International Year of Astronomy 2009 goal 8: facilitate the preservation and protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage of dark skies in places such as urban oases, national parks and astronomical sites, . 2. the Declaration approved during the International Conference in Defence of the Quality of the Night Sky and the Right to Observe Stars (La Palma, Canary Islands, 2007), . ...