Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 November 19 . A Kitt Peak Leonid at 1026 UT . ... Explanation: Reports of the 2002 Leonid Meteor Shower are coming in from across the world. ... A memorable event of the 2002 Leonids was when the town of Mitzpe Ramon in Israel dimmed its lights to allow better imaging of Leonid meteors from Wise Observatory . ... About APOD | ...

Leonid Fireball over Tenerife . ... Credit Copyright: Juergen Rendtel ( AIP Potsdam ), IMO Explanation: Historically active, this year's Leonid meteor shower was diminished by bright moonlight . Still, faithful night sky watchers did see the shower peak on November 18 and even the glare of moonlight didn't come close to masking this brilliant fireball meteor. ... Inset are two exposures of this fireball's persistent train . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . This year's annual Geminid meteor shower is active during the period December 7 - 17, with the peak of activity occurring during the night of December 13th/14th. The Geminid shower is currently one of the best of the major annual meteor displays, usually having a high number of relatively bright, medium-speed (130,000 km per hour) shooting stars. ... Last Revised: 2009 December 7th . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 November 8 . October Skylights . ... Explanation: With brilliant Venus above the western horizon at sunset and Jupiter and Saturn high in the east by early evening, November's night sky is filled with bright planets. October's sky featured bright planets as well and, triggered by the active Sun, some lovely auroral displays . ...

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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. ...

show_active_props (version 09/04/03) . ... Finds the active proposals of a particular type . ... DEVELOPER: Alan Patterson, 28-Aug-2003 . PURPOSE: The tool finds the active proposals of the specified types . USAGE: do show_active_props [-poms=pomsgroup] [-output=<filename>] . where: -poms requests active POMS proposals for the . ... Modules . ... minmatch (arg1, arglist) . Finds the first entry in arglist that begins with arg1 or None if there . ... author__ = 'Alan Patterson' . ...

... ESO PR Photo 07a/01 . ... ESO PR Photo 07b/01 . ... Caption : PR Photo 07a/01 shows Comet Hale-Bopp , still active at a distance of nearly 2,000 million kilometres from the Sun. ... This is quite unusual for a comet and is clearly confirmed on the present photo ( PR Photo 07a/01 ) from the WFI camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at La Silla, obtained a few days ago. ... ESO-Chile . ... ESO PR Photos 07a-b/01 may be reproduced, if credit is given to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). ...

... It's a Meteor Shower Smaller than grains of sand, meteors vaporize in a bright streak of light as they hit Earth's atmosphere. Meteor showers come from comets, but the sporadic meteors on other nights are mostly asteroid bits. ... Meteor Showers Come From Comets Jupiter Earth Sun Comet Mercury Tips: A bright Moon can wash out meteors, making them hard to see. ... But the comet bits hit Earth's atmosphere so fast, the pieces vaporize in bright streaks -- making a meteor shower! ...

... Observing . ... Leonid meteor shower peaks mid-November . During November, the Leonid meteor shower will produce up to 15 meteors per hour. ... Although the Full Moon that occurs on the same day as the Leonids peak November 17 will diminish the view, 15 meteors per hour still will radiate from the constellation Leo the Lion. ... Annually, the Leonid meteor shower deposits 12 13 tons of material across the planet. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... We have measured radio flux densities of BL Lacertae ( B2200+420 ) with the RATAN-600 radio telescope at 4.8, 7.9, 11.2 and 21.7 GHz during 6 October - 20 November, 2012 to study the detected ( ATel #4557, #4565, and #4568 ) flare. ... On 12 November flux density had notably risen to 8.30 +/- 0.19 Jy at 7.7 GHz, to 9.86 +/- 0.09 Jy at 11.2 GHz and to 11.70 +/- 0.3 Jy at 21.7 GHz. ... The spectral index changed from -0.08 +/- 0.02 to +0.23 +/- 0.02 at 11.2-21.7 GHz for October to November flux points...

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... Sun images . ... Active areas . November : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for November 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for November 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

... 2 April 1999 . The Nobeyama Radioheliograph data show that in the microwave range, besides large-scale trans-equatorial chains (see, e.g., the May 11-15, 1993 and November 1-4, 1993 events), there are also many examples displaying large and strongly evolving "longitudinal" or "internal" chains connecting remote active regions inside an active zone in one (northern or southern) hemisphere (the August 20-September 3, 1998 event). ... Last update: 2 April 1999 . ...

... Three ` flavours'of binning and discard: · Discard 9 rows , readout 1 row, cut 10:1, resolution 1.75ms · Discard 90 rows , bin 10 rows , cut 10:1, resolution 2.76ms · Discard 95 rows , bin 5 rows , cut 20:1, resolution 2.76ms · Compared with normal timing : · 100 rows and readout, no cut, resolution 1.75ms Bin · Tested on XMM on Crab during rev 333 - 3 October 2001 Crab - rev 333 - Bright timing ... Counting mode and FIFO full errors. ... Crab - rev 333 - Bright timing mode ...

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... The hot component shows very spectacular activity: irregular outbursts accompanied by fast, massive outflows and jets. ... Diffraction-limited images for both components of CH Cyg binary system were reconstructed using visible speckle interferometry at BTA 6-m telescope (Fig.1). The orbital period 15.6 years and masses: 2.0 Msun and 0.7 Msun for red giant and white dwarf, respectively were derived from angular distance (0.042") and magnitude difference (2 m ) of the components. ... Fig.1. ...

... 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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