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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... January . ... Posted on January 29, 2013 | 1 Comment On the weekend of the 14and 15 of July 2012 we held a pinhole photography event.€а This was led by the world renowned pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell.€а Justin has been [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... This new comet was in January 2013 just a dim speck in the constellation Gemini, between the stars Castor and Pollux. ... Posted on November 15, 2012 | ... Posted on October 3, 2012 | ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

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home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Hitching a Ride on a Comet . Mercury, November/December 1996 Table of Contents . ... Late in the evening of Jan. 30, 1996 in Japan's Kyushu region, Yuji Hyakutake left his home in Kagoshima and drove to an observing site far from city lights. ... We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

Proposal Identi cation No.: R1815 Date Received: 2003-May-30 11:17:31 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Planetary Radar Observation Category: Solar System Total Time Requested: 54 Hours Proposal Title: Radar Observations of Comet Encke in 2003 ABSTRACT: We propose to make S-band radar observations of Comet 2P/Encke during the comet's November 2003 passage. ... Maybe Part of the observing run. ...

... Surprising Comet ISON . ... After failing to appear for Sun staring spacecraft at perihelion, its harrowing closest approach to the Sun, sungrazing Comet ISON was presumed lost. ... Sungrazing Comet ISON reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, yesterday, November 28, at 18:45 UT. ... NGC 1999: South of Orion . ... In the above photograph taken on 1997 April 6, Comet Hale-Bopp was imaged from the Indian Cove Campground in the Joshua Tree National Park in California, USA. ... November . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 November 30 . Surprising Comet ISON . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , SOHO - Video Editing: Babak Tafreshi ( TWAN ) . ... But ISON surprised observers yesterday as material still traveling along the comet's trajectory became visible and even developed an extensive fan-shaped dust tail. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

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MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... Close What Happened to Comet Holmes? November 15, 2007 by J. Kelly Beatty Click here to get a sky chart and simple instructions for finding Comet Holmes in the sky. ... The tiny black square indicates the area around the nucleus imaged three days later by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Acquired on November 4, 2007, this Hubble Space Telescope view of Comet Holmes's nucleus is 10 wide, about 7,500 miles at the comet's distance. Even HST's powerful camera cannot resolve the 2-mile-wide nucleus. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system . The observation, which is the astronomical equivalent to finding the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, bolsters proof for a primordial comet reservoir just beyond Neptune , currently the farthest planet from the Sun . ... The comet-disk lies just beyond Neptune and might stretch 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth . ... Comet Introduction Kuiper Belt Objects . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

Comet 17P/Holmes increased in brightness over a half of million times on 2007 October 24 ( APOD 2007 October 26 ). On November 1 it was still in peak of its brightness, when I pointed at it the 25-cm telescope of my home observatory located in the Nizhnyj Arkhys, Community of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Karachai-Cherkesia, Russia. Figure 1. Comet 17P/Holmes identified in the frame of SAO 1-m Zeiss all-sky TV camera on 2007 November 1. ... Comet is a green nonstellar object. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... Currently, there is very little information on comets which are active beyond the orbit of Jupiter. ... Previous observations conducted by our team with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope showed that some of these comets have extended tails dissimilar to the tails of comets forming at close heliocentric distances. ... We for the first time measured the linear polarization of scattered emission for the two distant comets C/2010 S1 (LINEAR) and C/2010 R1 (LINEAR) at heliocentric distances of 5.9-7.0 au. ...

... The 11 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Bombay (Mumbai) on November 10-19, 2006. The duration of the Olympiad was 10 days, it is one day longer than usualy. ... The International Astronomy Olympiad has been held in Europe and Caucasus for nine times, the X IAO visited East Asia, and now it is the first time IAO coming to South Asia. ... Friday, November 10 - Day of arrival . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...