... Credit Copyright: Petr Hor lek Explanation: Have you watched the Perseid meteor shower ? ... Of course, this year's Perseid shower has the advantage of being active near the August 14 New Moon. ... The Perseid meteor shower last occurred near a New Moon in 2013. ... The widefield composite includes 67 meteors streaming from the heroic constellation Perseus, the shower's radiant, captured during 2013 August 8-14 against a background of faint zodiacal light and the Milky Way . ... August . ...

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... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M?Єller 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. ...

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... 2015 August 13 . Moonless Meteors and the Milky Way . ... Explanation: Have you watched the Perseid meteor shower ? ... The Perseid meteor shower last occurred near a New Moon in 2013. ... The widefield composite includes 67 meteors streaming from the heroic constellation Perseus, the shower's radiant, captured during 2013 August 8-14 against a background of faint zodiacal light and the Milky Way . The next moonless Perseid meteor shower will be in August 2018. ... About APOD | ...

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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. ...

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... 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. ...

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... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer?s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... 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 . ...

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Enceladus . ... Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus] is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. ... Parts of Enceladus shows craters no larger than 35 km in diameter. ... This Voyager 2 mosaic of Enceladus was made from images taken through the clear, violet and green filters on August 25, 1981, from a distance of 119,000 kilometers (74,000 miles). ... This image was created by projecting a digital map of Enceladus onto an orthographic view and then replacing the color channels by low resoultion color images. ...

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... 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., ...

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... Astronomy news . ... Saturnian Moon Shows Evidence Of Ammonia . Data collected during two close flybys of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft add more fuel to the fire about the Saturnian ice world containing sub-surface liquid water. ... In space, the presence of ammonia provides strong evidence for the existence of at least some liquid water. How could ammonia equate to liquid water inside an ice-covered moon in one of the chillier neighborhoods of our solar system? ...

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... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearlтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. Description: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are on the left and the Milky Way from Crux through Centaurus are on the right. ... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. ...

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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. ...

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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). ...

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