Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Crown of the Sun . ... Credit Copyright: (C2002) Wendy Carlos Jonathan Kern (all rights reserved) Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere or corona is an awesome and inspirational sight . ... The color picture was taken with a specially built coronal camera and telescope during the December 4th total eclipse from Messina , South Africa. ... December . ... Publications with keywords: Solar Corona - solar eclipse - camera . ...

... 2002 December 13 . The Crown of the Sun . ... Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere or corona is an awesome and inspirational sight . ... The camera's design incorporates a precisely made filter whose density, or ability to block light, decreases markedly with distance from the filter center, compensating for the difference between the brighter inner portion of the corona at the Sun's edge and the much fainter outer regions. ... About APOD | ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... In the last day of the International Year of Astronomy - i n the early evening of the 31st December - the Moon undergoes the smallest partial eclipse that we have seen in Ireland for 40 years - in that the Moon will only just dip into the umbral shadow of the Earth. At mid-eclipse (19:23) the lower right of the Moon may just be seen to have a faint ruddy colour as indicated in the diagram. ... Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:21 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... A full set of flatfield frames was taken with the NICMOS arrays during the System Level Thermal Vacuum test, conducted on the ground in August 1996. ... Users are encouraged to recalibrate their data with on-orbit flatfields if the pipeline calibration used thermal vacuum flatfields. Preliminary results from SMOV indicate that variations in the large scale structure of the on-orbit flatfields relative to the thermal vacuum flatfields are of the order of 1-2% in Camera 2, and up to 5% in Camera 1. ...

Partial Solar Eclipse of 2000 December 25 The eclipse visible in Central America, North America, the nothern Atlan- tic Ocean, and the northern Pacific Ocean. ... o ' Eclipse begins | ... 116 22.4 W Greatest eclipse 0.723| ... 74 03.2 W Eclipse ends | ... 0.91792 |+ ... 0.91793 |+ ... 0.91794 |+ ... 0.91795 |+ ... 0.39669 |+ ... 0.91796 |+ ... 0.39667 |+ ... 0.02665 | ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . ... For those of you that are still bearing the psychological scars from PlutoтАЩs demotion from planet to dwarf planet a decade ago, here is news that may add salt to [ ] . ... In 2015 Armagh PlanetariumтАЩs website (including Astronotes) received well over 2.6 million page views (and over 75 million web hits*) from all over the world. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration....

Mariner 2 . Mariner 2, the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft, was launched August 27, 1962. It reached Venus on December 14, 1962, after a 108-day journey from Earth. ... The Mariner 2 mission was authorized by NASA in August 1961, less than a year before the first launch window. ... Mariner 2, the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft, was launched August 27, 1962, and passed 34,916 kilometers (21,648 miles) from Venus on December 14, 1962. ... Space History . ...

... First Contact Moon begins to move over Sun from West Starts at ~5:44:45 AM (about 10 minutes after sunrise) Must observe sun with filter! Good time to check and adjust mount tracking and alignment Watch for sunspots 6/21/ 2001 - Zambia ( Mario Motta ) First Contact Crescent images of Sun Natural pin-holes such as leaves on trees Pin-holes in cardboard Mario Motta Watch sky and environment Gradually darkens Temperature drops 8/11/1999 Hungary (Eric Pauer) ~1 min Before Second ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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XEphem Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | ... ADV: XEphem 3.7 released - ecdowney - August 5, 2005 - 21:56 UTC . ... Annoucning new XEphem discussion group - ecdowney - January 31, 2001 - 22:04 UTC . ... Catalogs - george - December 31, 2000 - 22:29 UTC . ... Re: Motif - ecdowney - December 29, 2000 - 13:19 UTC . ... Re: Re: Re: Xephem catalogs - ecdowney - December 21, 2000 - 18:37 UTC . ... announcing XEphem 3.4 - ecdowney - December 5, 2000 - 08:18 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

These links highlight 2008 - current ARC projects for telescopes, instruments, or operations at Apache Point. ... Eyepiece: April 10, 2009 . Painted Enclosure: April 23, 2009, Part A , Part B . Drive Maintenance: July 24, 2009, Part A , Part B , Part C , Part D , Part E , Part F , Part G . ... New Interior Photos: March 14, 2014 . TripleSpec Electronics Mount: March 05, 2008: Part A , Part B , Part C . ... TripleSpec: October 30, 2008 . ... GFP Upgrade: December 8, 2010 . ...

... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

... Home Observing Central Park ? ... 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 . ... The AAA hosts solar observing in Central Park one Sunday afternoon€аeach month.€а WeтАЩre located right by Bethesda Terrace and Fountain , middle of Central Park, just north of 72nd street. ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by ....

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description / Example expressions These sample boolean expressions demonstrate the filtering of an event list table with columns RAWX , RAWY , PHA , PATTERNID , CCDID , PHASE , TIME , and FLAG : . ... select all events with X coordinates greater than or equal to 100; exclude the 10th event anyway . ... select all events with PATTERNID equal to 4 . ... select events which have been selected in the previous selection run and have PHA values greater than or equal to 10 . ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2014 from DE200/LE200. Elements of the Total Lunar eclipse - 08 Oct 2014. ...

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These images were taken at Moore Observatory in Louisville, Kentucky, and at Mt. Kent Observatory in Queensland, Australia, with Nikon D200 digital SLR cameras. ... 2:10 EDT (Full moon) . 3:19 EDT (Penumbral eclipse underway) . ... 5:22 EDT (Totality 30 minutes away) . ... 5:53 EDT (Totality) . ... Kent Observatory are Copyright 2007 by the University of Southern Queensland and Rhodes Hart. Images from Moore Observatory are Copyright 2007 by John Kielkopf , University of Louisville. ...

... Total solar eclipse 2008 live from Novosibirsk On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse was being visible in Russia. ... The solar eclipse in Novosibirsk started at 9h41m UT and finished at 11h45m UT. ... Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS eclipse expedition team made 3 channels live Web-cast of the eclipse from Novosibirsk in collaboration with . ... Total phase . ... It's preferably to install on computer VLC media player free program for Web-cast live receiving. ...