... August 9, 1996 . The Perseid Meteor Shower . ... Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of Perseus, Comet Swift-Tuttle presents -- The Perseid Meteor Shower -- coming to your night sky this weekend! ... Dramatically illustrated in this composite video image made using MOVIE , meteors from the 1994 Perseids streak across the sky framed by the three bright stars of the asterism known as the "Summer Triangle" . ... What's the best way to enjoy a meteor shower? ... About APOD | ...

See also: 2004 Perseids . This year's annual Perseid meteor shower takes place between the dates 17th July and 24th August, peaking on the night of 12/13th August, with a formal maximum in the small hours of Wednesday 13th August. ... This is the most famous of all meteor showers and rarely fails to provide an impressive display. ... Comet Swift-Tuttle takes approximately 130 years to make one circuit around the Sun, and sheds particles when closest to the Sun in its orbit. ...

... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M†ґller via wikimedia.org) . ... Not all meteors are sporadic events, the regular meteor showers occur when the Earth bulldozes through a great swarm of meteoroids drifting in orbit round the Sun. ... They are at their best in the pre-dawn hours, as the face of the Earth turning towards the Sun catches more meteors as the Earth moves through space. ...

... 9.08.1996 . ... Credit Copyright: Sirko Molau , IMO , Archenhold-Sternwarte Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of Perseus, Comet Swift-Tuttle presents -- The Perseid Meteor Shower -- coming to your night sky this weekend! ... Indeed it is now known to be a regular August shower caused by the yearly passage of the Earth through the orbiting debri left behind by periodic comet Swift-Tuttle . ... The image shows bright Perseids recorded that year from August 9 through 14. ... August...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Comet Hyakutake wowed us this spring [see Guest Observer, May/June, p. 11]. ... The best time to observe a meteor shower is after midnight, as your nighttime location moves head-on into the path of the cometary debris. ... As observers, we are interested in the number of Perseids per time interval. ... Tabulate the number of meteors observed per interval, and make sure to label the table with the local time and date of each interval. ...

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... Observing . ... The Perseid meteor shower peaks mid-August . You donт??t need any equipment to view this summer meteor shower, although a Full Moon will create some observing challenges. ... The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 13, which is unfortunately on the same day as Full Moon. ... One of the most-observed meteor showers will peak August 13. ... Although the Perseids peak on the 13th, you can still catch meteors associated with the shower up to a few weeks on either side of the maximum. ...

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...

On September 15, 1998, the STScI director, Dr. Steven Beckwith, announced a special observation opportunity to the astronomical community during the Leonid Meteor Shower. During the peak of the Leonid meteor shower on November 17, 1998, HST will be pointed near the anti-radiant for ten hours. Anyone who is interested can submit ideas to STScI for scientific observations during this time. ... There are no HST observations in the archives for objects in this field. ...

Figure 1a. This figure shows the secondary tilts required to correct for transverse flexures of both the telescope truss and the secondary mirror mounts as the telescope changes altitude. ... The circles show the x-tilts of the secondary needed to minimize telescope coma and the squares show the y-tilts required. ... The small negative slope which seen in the y-tilt data is possibly real. ... However, the y-tilt data are very consistent with the y-tilts measured on August 14 (Figure 1a). ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Science User Portal . ... Travel and Contacts . ... In a textbook example of useful collaboration between ground- and space-based astronomical telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope has imaged the "shower" of "mini-comets" in Comet LINEAR, first seen by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) a few days ago [1] . ... Although this is reminiscent of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's break-up near Jupiter in 1992, the remaining pieces of Comet LINEAR's nucleus are much smaller and, presumably, much more short-lived...

U nlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. There are Chinese records of Comet Halley going back to at least 240 BC. ... W hen they are near the Sun and active, comets have several distinct parts: . ... A comet whose orbit takes it near the Sun is also likely to either impact one of the planets or the Sun or to be ejected out of the solar system by a close encounter (esp. with Jupiter). ... more comet images . ... Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) . ...

... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia . ... 50_Kozlova_Shevchenko.pdf - 212KB . A.A. Berezhnoy (1), O.R. Baransky (2), K.I. Churyumov (2), V.V. Kleshchenok (2), E.A. Kozlova (1), V. Mangano (3), V.O. Ponomarenko (2), Yu.V. Pakhomov (4), V.V. Shevchenko (1), yu. ... Berezhnoy A.A., Kozlova E.A., Shevchenko V.V. в сборнике 36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, серия Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts, том 36, с. 1061 тезисы . ...

Here we have an images of Comet C/1998 U5 (LINEAR) passing NGC 7080 showing SN 1998ey on Dec.12 only a week after Ron Arbour discovered the SN. Jack was unaware that it was over the galaxy let alone that it showed the SN! . Image by Jack Schmidling . For more informat on comets, check the Comet chasing . Back to 1998ey . Back to 1998 Supernovae . Back to Bright Supernovae David Bishop Last modified: Wed Jul 18 12:47:37 EDT 2001

Thought-Provoking Imagery Shows Sun's Place in the Galaxy . ... SOHO - Explosive Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun . SOHO-6 Comet at 2-6 solar radii from the Sun . ... The remarkable images come from SOHO's visible-light coronagraph, LASCO, which is able to mask the intense rays from the Sun's surface in order to reveal the much fainter glow of the solar atmosphere, or corona. ... SOHO is ideally placed to report and even anticipate their origins in the Sun's atmosphere. ... The Sun . ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this curtain rod object POV file . This is a macro for creating a shower curtain rod of any specified length, with base plates for mounting both ends to parallel walls. The rod shown in the top portion of the image was made with shower_curtain_rod(6) and is six units long, base plate to base plate. ... This web page, the associated image(s), and POV files are all copyright 2004 by Thomas A. Fine (that's me!) ...

Next: ASSIGN/GRAPHIC and COPY/GRAPHIC Up: General Commands Previous: General Commands . SET/GRAPHIC plays an important role in the plot package. This command gives the user control over the plot size, line types ( LTYPE ) љ , line thickness ( LWIDTH ) љ , symbol type ( STYPE ) љ and size ( SSIZE ) љ , etc. In Table the various options that can be set with the SET/GRAPH command are listed, together with the default settings. ... When STYPE=0 a line will be drawn corresponding to LTYPE . ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... While early stages of commissioning continue at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) , the ASKAP Computing team has meanwhile been refining processing pipelines by running simulated observations on the ASKAP Central Processor. ...