... Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice . ... The picture is a composite of hourly images taken of the Sun above Bursa, Turkey on key days from solstice to equinox to solstice. ... The top Sun band was taken during the summer solstice in 2008 June, when the Sun rose highest in the sky and stayed above the horizon for more than 12 hours. ... The middle band was taken during the Vernal Equinox in 2008 March, but it is the same sun band that Earthlings will see today, the day of the Autumnal Equinox...

... 2012 September 23 . Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice . ... An equinox occurs midway between the two solstice s, when the days and nights are the least equal. The picture is a composite of hourly images taken of the Sun above Bursa , Turkey on key days from solstice to equinox to solstice. The bottom Sun band was taken during the winter solstice in 2007 December, when the Sun could not rise very high in the sky nor stay above the horizon very long. ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments After entering the Twittersphere in 2010 Armagh PlanetariumтАЩs online presence has grown over the past few years encompassing the Astronotes blog and Facebook accounts. ... No Comments In July 2015 Belfast Met opened its doors to budding astronauts, pilots and app geniuses with a new series of STEM summer camps. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Paranal and La Silla general information and long term statistics of various parameters relevant for observational astronomy. on meteorology, telescope environment, atmospheric turbulence, and related topics (includes links to some other sites) . ... Databases for the Characterization of Astronomical Observatories Workshop La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; 22-23 June 2015 . ... Astroclimatology of Chajnantor . ... Photometry: Night Sky Quality at Mauna Kea , Cerro Pachon , CTIO and IAC . ...

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... On the equator (point C) the sun would always rise until it was overhead, while at the poles (A and B) it would always be on the horizon, going around the horizon once a day. ... Because everything is symmetric with respect to the line AB, the dark and light portions are always equal, and so are day and night, anywhere on Earth. ... Twice a year, the angle is as big as it can get, at the summer and winter solstices , when it reaches 23.5 degrees. ... That part of Earth enjoys summer . ...

The link between the tilt of the Earth's axis to the ecliptic and seasons of the year--length of day, effectiveness of sunlight, polar day and night, and seasons south and north of the equator, as well as near it. ... This lesson plan supplements: "Seasons of the Year," section #3: on disk Sseason.htm , on the web . ... Actually, Earth is most distant from the Sun in summer! ... Because of the inclination angle i, sometimes the North Pole of the Earth leans towards the Sun, sometimes it leans away. ...

... Armagh Observatory, 5 January 2016: Armagh Observatory reports that December 2015 was much wetter than average, the wettest December on record at Armagh, that is, since records of daily precipitation began at Armagh in 1838. ... The month was slightly duller than average, with 15 of the 31 days having no recorded strong sunshine at all. ... The long-term (1838-2010) average December precipitation at Armagh is 77.44 mm and the most recent 30-year (1981-2010) average precipitation is 77.23 mm. ...

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... The Cross-Quarter Days thus mark the middle of each season under our current system, or seasonal boundaries under the alternative system. ... Beltane / Bealtaine - Celtic bonfire festival May 4-7 2nd Cross-Quarter Day May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico) May 2nd Sunday - Mother's Day May last Monday - Memorial Day ( Decoration Day , officially May 30) June 14 - Flag Day June 3rd Sunday - Father's Day June 20-22 2nd Quarter Day - Summer Solstice June 21 - Litha (Norse/Anglo-Saxon for ...

... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

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Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

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Christmas Day is celebrated on December 25. Many people look on Christmas as the time to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, but really the tradition goes back to the earliest of times.In those days the sun meant so much to primitive man that when it began to go lower each day till December 23, people thought the sun was going to die out and they were worried. ... On December 23 the sun stayed in the sky longer and longer and after that the nights were becoming shorter and shorter. ...

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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) . ...

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SCORPIO long-slit gallery. Here some spectra obtained on the 6m telescope with SCORPIO in long-slit mode. ... The object 0204+06 (R=19.5 mag) was observed in September, 23 2001. ... Texp=2x300 sec . Setting slit on the object . ... Subtraction of night-sky lines . Spectra energy distribution in the central object . The object Z2210+06 (R=19.7 mag) was observed in September, 24 2001. ... Spectra energy distribution in the object . ...