... Eclipsed Moon in the Milky Way . ... 17.06.2011 . ... Credit Copyright: Babak Tafreshi ( TWAN ) Explanation: On June 15, the totally eclipsed Moon was very dark, with the Moon itself positioned on the sky toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy . ... The tantalizing red lunar disk lies just above the bowl of the dark Pipe Nebula, to the right of the glowing Lagoon and Trifid nebulae and the central Milky Way dust clouds. ... June . ... Publications with keywords: total lunar eclipse - Milky Way . ...

... 2011 June 17 . Eclipsed Moon in the Milky Way . ... Explanation: On June 15, the totally eclipsed Moon was very dark, with the Moon itself positioned on the sky toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy . ... In the evocative scene , the dark of the eclipsed Moon competes with the Milky Way's faint glow. The tantalizing red lunar disk lies just above the bowl of the dark Pipe Nebula, to the right of the glowing Lagoon and Trifid nebulae and the central Milky Way dust clouds. ... About APOD | ...

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. ...

Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

... Emu and Egg! The Milky Way from the SouthernтАж . ... Title: Emu and Egg! The Milky Way from the Southern Cross to Scorpius seen above the ANU 24-inch telescope dome. Description: Several Aboriginal tribes see the structure of these dust and gas clouds in the Milky Way as representing an emu. ... Several Aboriginal tribes see the structure of these dust and gas clouds in the Milky Way as representing an emu. ...

... Penumbral lunar eclipse of 2013 May 25 The beginning of the eclipse is visible from the extreme southwest of Euro- pe, western half of Africa, Antarctica, southeast half of Northern, Central and Southern America, Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans. ... Universal time of geocentric opposition h m s in right ascension 2013, May 4, 3 55 07.3 Sun Moon h m s h m s Right ascension . ... 15 47.47 16 38.22 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Octet-gram of cloud cover. Blue is for clear while white is for cloud. e.g. the "cake" on the left is 0% cloud while the one on the right is 100% cloud. ... From left to right: 2.5". In short, the smaller/bluer, the better the seeing condition is. Atmospheric transparency. From left to right: 1 (unit: mag per air mass). ... Atmospheric instability. ... The Sky Last Night at Armagh . ...

Herschel counted stars and produced the map of the Milky Way shown below. The Sun is approximately in the center (slightly to the left) and the dark lanes through Sagittarius give the "jaw" on the right. ... The picture above is an infrared image taken by the DIRBE instrument on the COBE satellite. ... So we now know that the Milky Way is many times larger than Herschel thought it was, and that the Sun is quite far from the center. ... Tutorial: Part 1 | Part 2 | ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2015 from DE200/LE200. ... 2015 Sep 28 2 h 38 m 29.37 s Min(gamma) = 0.32922 t = time - 2 h 40 m Geocentric coordinates of the Sun: Right ascension = 121707.665 ... * t * -0.309 Parallax = 10126.569 + t * -0.032 + t * t * -0.018 Radius = 1644.515 + t * -0.009 + t * t * -0.005 Contacts of the eclipse : Begin Semishadow eclipse : 0 11.48 Begin Partial eclipse : 1 8.00 Begin Total eclipse : 2 14.70 Phase Maximum of eclipse : 2 48.31 End Total eclipse : 3 25.33 End Partial ...

... Research . ... Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds | ... Made by B. Lawton (2010). Karl D. Gordon (STScI, Baltimore, USA) . Brian Babler (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) . ... Lynn R. Carlson (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) . ... Margaret Meixner (STScI, Baltimore, USA) . ... 16) Gordon, K. D., (26 coauthors), Lawton, B., et al. 2012, in preparation; Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low Metallicity, Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). ...

. These images show the central plane of a rotating disk orbiting a newly formed protostar (dark dot) formed in a 3-D model of the shock-triggered collapse of a molecular cloud of gas and dust. Density is shown on the left, while the x velocity plot on the right shows how the shock (outer edge) has injected fingers with motions that are responsible for producing the spin of the disk around the central protostar. Courtesy of Alan Boss

... Australia?s 2002 Total Eclipse of the Sun . ... A total eclipse of the Sun is arguably the most awesome sight in all of nature. Day is suddenly replaced with an eerie twilight and the Sun?s brilliant disk is blocked by the dark Moon. ... This incredible spectacle is visible once every year or two when the Moon?s small dark umbral shadow races across our planet?s surface. The ensuing path of totality is typically about 150 kilometers wide but can stretch halfway around the globe. ...

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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... March . ... The extent of the solar eclipse of 3 November€а 2013 at 13:22 UTC as seen from Accra, Ghana. We will see a similar sight.€а (Image credit: Kwabena under Creative Commons Licence) . ... Your viewing location is not important as long as it offers an unobstructed view of the south eastern sky.. ... You can use ?eclipse glasses? to view the Sun, these are made from aluminized Mylar filter material. ...

... Operating at a wavelength of 10 ?m, it produces a 135њx135њ image with a resolution of 0.9њ. ... The clouds move from the west-southwest. ... At the same time as the IR images, visible light images were taken with an Apple Computer QuickTake electronic camera. ... At 1540 MDT, the large central cloud is visible in both images. At 1544 MDT, a distinctive cloud is apparent near the center in the visible image and right of center in the IR. The performance of the SDSS cloud scanner is excellent. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

Bigbang Forum Message . ... You're On The Right Track . ... Yes, you're on the right track. ... If we converted everything into gravity, space would shrink. ... The edge of space has no mass, thus, gravity doesn't emit work upon it. Gravity can only affect the edge of space indirectly, by doing work on the innards of space. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Sun Image and Animation Index Additional Sun Resources . ... The Sun's outer visible layer is called the photosphere and has a temperature of 6,000њC (11,000њF). ... The corona is the outer part of the Sun's atmosphere. ... Sun's magnetic field, prominences, solar wind, aurora . ... This image of 1,500,000њC gas in the Sun's thin, outer atmosphere (corona) was taken March 13, 1996 by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. ...

... The Large Magellanic Cloud is a Dwarf Irregular galaxy in orbit around our own Milky Way. It is a large object, several degrees in size, and easily visible to the unaided eye in Southern Hemisphere skies. The LMC is located in the constellation of Doradus at about 5h30m Right Ascension, -68 degrees Declination, and lies at a distance of roughly 50 kiloparsecs (160,000 light years) from Earth. ...