... 30.07.2004 . ... In the foreground, lights along the northern horizon give an orange cast to the low clouds. But far above the clouds, at altitudes of 100 kilometers or more, are alluring green and purple hues of the aurora borealis or northern lights , a glow powered by energetic particles at the edge of space. In the background are familiar stars of the northern sky. ... Then, just follow the pointer stars of the Big Dipper to Polaris , perhaps the most famous northern light of all. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 July 30 . Northern Lights . ... Mont Cosmos ) . Explanation: While enjoying the spaceweather on a gorgeous summer evening in mid-July, astronomer Philippe Moussette captured this colorful fish-eye lens view looking north from the Observatoire Mont Cosmos , Quebec, Canada, planet Earth. ... About APOD | ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Saturn as you haven't seen it (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . This false colour image from the Hubble Space Telescope not only shows Saturn in an unfamiliar light, but displays some of the giant planet?s features. ... Viewing Saturn at this time not only allows us to see the famous rings almost edge on but also to observe both polar regions at once. There we see Saturn?s aurorae, analogous to Earth?s Northern lights and Southern Lights. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... By the Light of the Moon . ... Moonlight varies over a greater range than the light from any other bright celestial object?planet, satellite, or star?in the entire sky. ... The level of light that disturbs this gland and its secretions is not yet accurately known, but indications are that this level is not much brighter than the full Moon. ...

... Prof. J. Hough, dean of Physical Sciences Dept. ... Dr. T. Gledhill . ... PDF file ] . Gledhill T.M., Takami M. (2001) Scattered light models of the dust shell around HD 179821. ... Hough J.H., Aitken D.K. (2003) Polarimetry in the infrared: what can be learnd? Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer , v.79-80, p.733-740. ... Lucas P.W. (2003) Computation of light scattering in young stellar objects. ... 2003) Scattering of light from atmospheric ice analogues. ...

... This is a false color image of HR 4796A composed of visible and near-IR light (blue=STIS, green=1.71 micron, red=2.22 micron). It's red color is caused by dust grains that scatter light poorly in the visible and very efficiently in the near-IR. This images shows the debris disk around HD 61005, and a model of debris disk dust grains being blown by and interstellar wind. This work was a Goddard web feature (look there for a cool movie showing one of the models). ...

ALBUM: planets Artist: Eloy Album: Planets Transcription in progress, e-mail corrections to datta@cs.uwp.edu DRAFT .1 @ SONG : Introduction Instrumental @ SONG : On The Verge Of Darkening Lights warming rays are shadowed by threatning clouds while hissing winds create the oddest sounds linked to the power and speed of a beam. ion is cast to this strange and fake scene forced into isolation ...

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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ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Information & tools for observers . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

... How How do molecular clouds collapse to form do very young stars evolve? do planets grow in circumstellar disks? ... Real-time protoplanetary/protostellar disk evolution - movies of disks in formation High sensitivity, 2 AU resolution cm-wave observations (100K, 0.2 mas, 8 GHz bandwidth, A/T 10,000) proper motions (Reid ­ Bryden et al 1999) dynamical timescales months-years How do very young stars evolve ? cm-waves probe inner few AU of accretion ...

Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics Struct Reference . ... More... #include < Planet.hpp > . ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting), if lighting is used and GLSL is supported. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting and shadowing). ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. bool Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics::loadPlanetShaders . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

PhD Thesis (PDF) . ... The evolution of stars and gas in galaxies. Observing the atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) 21 cm emission and radio continuum emission of galaxies. ... The goal of research is to quantify the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas content galaxies as they evolve with time. ... Neutral atomic hydrogen gas produces a radio signal that can be used to directly measure the amount of gas present. ... USyd Summer Research Scholarship Report (PDF) . ... Research Topic Write Up (PDF) . ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...