... 24.03.2011 . ... Credit Copyright: Dennis Di Cicco ( TWAN ) Explanation: Last week's Full Moon was hard to miss . Rising on March 19, its exact full phase occurred within an hour of perigee, the closest point in the Moon's orbit to Earth. As a result it appeared some 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than a Full Moon near apogee, the most distant point in the elliptical lunar orbit. ... March 2011 . ... Publications with keywords: full moon - moonrise - perigee . ... Full Moonrise . ...

... 2011 March 24 . Boston Moonrise . ... Explanation: Last week's Full Moon was hard to miss . Rising on March 19, its exact full phase occurred within an hour of perigee, the closest point in the Moon's orbit to Earth. As a result it appeared some 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than a Full Moon near apogee, the most distant point in the elliptical lunar orbit. ... If you managed to miss this perigee Full Moon, make a note on your calendar. ... About APOD | ...

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... How big are the Lagrangian points? I hear of telescopes orbiting at a certain Lagrangian point, but for these crafts to not interfere with one another, aren't these points more like "Lagrangian areas"? ... RELATED TOPICS: LAGRANGIAN POINTS . ... When you hear about a spacecraft orbiting at a certain Lagrangian point, it really means the probe is traveling within or near one of these extended, three-dimensional islands of orbits. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... 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. ...

This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Al Takeda on 03/22/2011 12:46:12 . Super Moon . On March 19th a nearly perfect perigee-syzygy occured which made the apparent size of the Moon larger then normal. ... Perigee is the point at which the Moon is closest in its orbit to the Earth and syzygy is a full or new moon, when the Earth, the Moon and the Sun are aligned. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Since moonshine is really reflected sunlight, the full Moon is on the average slightly brighter in mid-winter, when Earth is closest to the Sun. In addition, the distance of the full Moon also varies, due to the ellipticity ("eccentricity") of the Moon's orbit. On 22 December, 1999, the two effects combined to produce the brightest full Moon of the century. ... This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22nd, commonly called the first day of winter. ...

... By default, all visits in the input lrp are used. ... Otherwise output from each report will go to the screen. allowed_ options = ['outfile=', 'begin_time=', 'end_time=', ' lrp =', ' visit =', ' file =', ' gyro_mode =', 'half_width=', 'offset=', 'orbit_ file ='] try: options , parms = spst_getopt.spst_getopt(args, allowed_ options ) except Exception,e: print e print Illegal argument. return not spss_sys_util.SUCCESS if len(parms) 0: print ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... Munching on Lunar Cheese . ... Rarely have most of us really watched a lunar eclipse. Let's observe the lunar eclipse this month and see what the shadow-play can teach us about Earth and its little mate. ... My grandparents came out, we sat on bales of hay in a field, ate our hot dogs and roasted marshmallows, and watched a huge full Moon fall into Earth's ruddy red shadow. ... The ancient Greeks knew this, too, and they saw Earth's circular shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses. ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... Armagh papers relating to solar system astronomy . ... B. Napier, D. Asher, M. Bailey and D. Steel . ... Abstract . Full published paper at Oxford Journals . Meteor showers on Earth from sungrazing comets . A. Sekhar and D.J. Asher . ... Full Paper - PDF . ... Full Paper (including Appendix) from astro-ph . ... V.V. Emel'yanenko, D.J. Asher and M.E. Bailey . ... The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com . ... D.J. Asher . ... Full Paper - PDF (Copyright notice) . ...

Blue Moon, What Is It? ... Moon | ... By popular acclaim, the second Full Moon of a calendar month is called a Blue Moon. ... If the last Full Moon of this calendar year comes after the December solstice but before New Year's Day, then it's inevitable -- the following year will have an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ... There are always thirteen Full Moons in a calendar year that hosts a "New Style" Blue Moon, and almost always twelve Full Moons during a calendar year that features an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ...

Full Moon 106k gif . Another full Moon 300k jpg . nice Moon image with features labeled html . ... projection of the whole surface (from Clementine images) 330k jpg ; 1200k tiff . ... GOES satellite image of Earth showing Moon in same frame 92k gif . Moon's north pole from Galileo 132k gif . ... Three-filter color image of the Moon (Galileo) 57k jpg . False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 123k jpg . ... False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 53k jpg . ... Galileo images . ...

... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

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Lunar Orbiter to the Moon (1966 - 1967) . ... Five Lunar Orbiter missions were launched in 1966 through 1967 with the purpose of mapping the lunar surface before the Apollo landings. ... The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. ... The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. ...

... Michael Collins (BGEN, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... SPECIAL HONORS: Presented the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 1969 and recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, and the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross. ... He served as backup pilot for the Gemini VII mission. ... Collins served as command module pilot on Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969--the first lunar landing mission. ... This is the only version available from NASA. ...

... ALMA . ... OOF software . ... Software . ... We present a framework for modelling atmospheric phase errors and their correction by both the fast-switching and water vapour radiometeric techniques. Notable features are simulating three dimensional turbulent volumes instead of flat phase screens, considering three representative configurations of ALMA and parametrisation in terms of phase fluctuations on a 300m baseline, allowing referencing to the site-testing interferometer data. ...

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