... A Zodiacal Skyscape . ... Credit Copyright: Jack Fusco Explanation: Venus and Jupiter are this month's two brightest planets. ... In clear and transparent skies over Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania, USA, they are also seen immersed in Zodiacal light . ... Brighter near the horizon, the Zodiacal glow angles upward, first to Venus and then to Jupiter hugging the ecliptic as they orbit the Sun. ... February . ... February 2012 . ... Publications with keywords: Venus - Jupiter - zodiacal light ....

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... 2008 February 2 . Venus and Jupiter in Morning Skies . ... The second and third brightest objects in the sky at Night after the Moon, Venus and Jupiter appeared separated by about 2 degrees when this picture was taken on January 30th, but closed to within nearly half a degree early yesterday morning. ... Over the next two days, early morning risers around the globe will be able to enjoy a close pairing of Venus and Jupiter with an old crescent Moon. ... About APOD | ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Posted on February 16, 2012 | 2 Comments Once, in complete silence, a large boulder rolled down a slope on the central peak of the MoonтАЩs Schiller crater. ... Continue Reading.. ... Part of [ ] . ... Posted on August 31, 2011 | No Comments This portrait of the Earth and Moon together in space was taken on 26 August by NASAтАЩs Juno spacecraft which is currently en route for Jupiter. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11 June 2015: Armagh Observatory reports that the next two weeks will provide an interesting opportunity to observe the brightest planet, Venus, and the largest planet, Jupiter, as they move towards one another in the evening twilight. ... The image shows the sky view towards the West at around 11pm on 20 June 2015. ... Professor Mark E. Bailey, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG. ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 13 . Southwest Mercury . Credit: Mariner 10 , NASA . Explanation: The planet Mercury resembles a moon. ... In fact, the Earth is the only planet more dense. ... From Earth , Mercury's proximity to the Sun cause it to be visible only for a short time just after sunset or just before sunrise. ... About APOD | ...

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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... What sort of celestial sight can make children halt their games? And what can you do when they run over to where you are, too excited to stand in line, to get a look through a small telescope and ask questions in a language you only slightly comprehend? ... There are no observatories that we know about. ... The children wanted to know what a star looks like through the telescope, so we swung it over to Sirius. ...

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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. ...

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... 142,800 Mean density (kg/m^3) .. ... 5.203 Rotation period (length of day in Earth hours).. 9.8 Revolution period (length of year) (in Earth years). 11.86 Obliquity (tilt of axis) (degrees).. 3.08 Orbit inclination (degrees).. 1.3 Orbit eccentricity.. 0.048 Mean surface temperature (K)........................ 120 (cloud tops) Visual geometric albedo.. 0.44 Atmospheric components.............................. 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, .07% methane Rings.. ...

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... George Benedict, University of Texas at Austin . ... Abstract . ... Hubble Heritage Observations of Arp 87 . ... The Fine Guidance Sensors on HST are the only system currently capable of making observations at the required sub-milliarcscond accuracy, and has already been used for astrometry of four systems, including the M dwarf Gl 876. The current GO program pursues observations of six planetary hosts; the final set of FGS observations of HD 47536 is scheduled over the next week. ...

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Venus in visible light (violet filter) 50k gif ; 25k jpg . ... image from Pioneer Venus 15k jpg ; 28k jpg ( caption ) . ... 7 pancake volcanoes, alpha region 227k gif ; 327k jpg . ... Lada Regio, 47 deg S, 25 Long, showing mountains and craters 121k gif ; 321k jpg . ... Gula Mons and Cunitz crater, flat image of gulacun.gif 250k gif ; 178k jpg . ... Crater Farm, Lavinia Region, small 107k gif ; 147k jpg . ... Central Ovida region, 1 deg s by 83 deg 191k gif ; 531k jpg . ... Pictures .. ... Venus .. ...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

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Transits are key to our understanding of exoplanets. In this talk, I will describe a novel technique we have developed to measure the shape and rotation of exoplanets from their Kepler transit light curves. ... This rapid rotation causes their shapes to become oblate. ... I present the first search for rotationally oblate gas giants in the Kepler dataset, and a tentative detection for the oblateness of Kepler-39b, a brown dwarf in a 21-day period orbit. ...

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... Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... Achievements . ... The theory of radiative transfer in inhomogeneous atmospheres was developed ( Yanovytskij E.G. ) . ... Calculations shown that the vertical movement of gas and aerosol in the atmosphere of giant planets with velocity w = (0.1-0.5) m/s determines the capacity of visible clouds and therefore affects their brightness characteristics (A. P. Vidmachenko). ...

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... Prof. J. Hough, dean of Physical Sciences Dept. ... Dr. T. Gledhill . ... PDF file ] . Gledhill T.M., Takami M. (2001) Scattered light models of the dust shell around HD 179821. ... Hough J.H., Aitken D.K. (2003) Polarimetry in the infrared: what can be learnd? Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer , v.79-80, p.733-740. ... Lucas P.W. (2003) Computation of light scattering in young stellar objects. ... 2003) Scattering of light from atmospheric ice analogues. ...

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Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... OSETI On Steroids (Venus Lights Up In Spots) . ... Post Message | ... OSETI might want to monitor the "Venus Transit" and record those "Unnatural Ashen Lights". ... Topic: Venus 'Ashen Light' seen! by; Dave Lillis . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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