... Saturn At Night . ... Credit: Voyager Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: From a spectacular vantage point over 1.4 billion kilometers from the sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back toward the inner solar system to record this startling view of Saturn's nightside. ... The crescent planet casts a broad shadow across its bright rings while the translucent rings themselves can be seen to cast a shadow on Saturn's cloud tops . ... Publications with keywords: Saturn - Voyager 1 . ... Crescent Saturn . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on November 15, 2012 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 3 Comments Audiences flocked to see James Cameron���s ��epic movie Avatar, the story of a disabled human who gets a chance to live a new life as a 3m tall blue-skinned humanoid [ ] . ... Newer Entries . Hello, I���m Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the Planetarium���s official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... September 21, 1997 . Looking Down on Saturn . Credit: Voyager Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation: This picture of Saturn could not have been taken from Earth . No Earth based picture could possibly view the night side of Saturn and the corresponding shadow cast across Saturn's rings . Since Earth is much closer to the Sun than Saturn , only the day side of the planet is visible from the Earth . ... Tomorrow's picture: Antares and Rho Ophiuchi . ... About APOD > . ...

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... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... News Feed . ... 2013 December 5th . ... Minutes of the 89th meeting of the Management Committee of the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium 21 JUNE 2013 - PDF . ... Warm, Wet and Bright October . ... AOP Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2013 - PDF . ... Armagh Observatory Planetarium ��� Appointment of Members to the Management Committee - PDF . ... Armagh Observatory Annual Report 2012 - PDF . ...

BaBar Collaboration Meeting , December 6-10, 2004 . ... APS April Meeting 2004 , May 1-4, 2004 . ... Workshops in Particle Physics , February 29 - March 6, 2004 . ... Aspen 2004 Winter Conference on Particle Physics , February 1-7, 2004 . ... Exp Talks - Prior Years . ... Energy Spectrometer Designs and Beam Tests , Eric Torrence . ... Recent Results from the LIGO Experiment, Isabel Leonor . ... Experimental Introduction , Ray Frey . ... CCD R at Oregon University , Nick Sinev, Olya Igonkina . ...

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ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...

home publications > mercury . ... A Titan-ic Mission . ... Saturn's moon Titan seems like the stuff of science fiction, but it really exists, out there in the distant reaches of our own Solar System. ... Ringed Saturn, heavily veiled by the thick atmosphere of this small world, hangs low and huge in the sky. ... But under that heavy atmosphere, planetary scientists believe an exotic world awaits our discovery [see "Saturn and Titan on the Eve of Cassini-Huygens," September/October, p. 10]. ...

... 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) ...

... PhD Yale University, Astronomy, 2015 . ... MS, MPhil Yale University, Astronomy, 2011 . ... Plunkett, Adele L. ; Arce, H��ctor G.; Corder, Stuartt A.; Dunham, Michael M.; Mardones, Diego; Garay, Guido 2014, ApJ, 803, 22, ������Assessing molecular outflows and turbulence in the protostellar cluster Serpens South��� . ... Department of Astronomy Seminar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile April 2013 . ... Yale-University of Chile Meeting, New Haven, CT December 2011 . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...