... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. April 2, 1997 . A Complete Aurora . ... U. Iowa ), Polar , VIS , NASA . Explanation : Aurora frequently make complete rings around a pole of the Earth. ... A complete aurora l oval is normally hard to photograph because part of it usually occurs over a brightly sunlit portion of the Earth. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... July 8, 1999 . Eruptive Prominence . Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA , NASA . Explanation: Activity on our parent star continues to increase as the sun approaches a maximum in its 11-year solar cycle , expected in the year 2000. ... Earth dwellers fortunate enough to be well located in Europe , the Middle East , Asia may be able to view for themselves activity above the solar limb during the upcoming August solar eclipse - the last total eclipse of the second millennium . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . ... Continue the GCVS project for at least 3 -6 more years;  for this period, continue publication of Name-Lists for individual discoveries and for large-survey stars studied also elsewhere;  during this period, start a new GCVS version with improved data and with complete information for Name-List stars; . during this period, work on Steve Kawaler's suggestion;  pay maximum attention to improving software for period determination, automatic classification, etc . ...

General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database, Version 2013Jun) . Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Zharova A.V., et al. ... General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2012), VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/gcvs . ... Query forms by files . The values in the input file must be separeted by comas or arranged in columns. ... Enter the file with the GCVS names: . ... Enter the file with the coordinates J2000.0: . ...

... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... 1) К участию в конкурсе допускаются все российские сайты на тему астрономии и космонавтики, и все русскоязычные сайты за пределами России. ... II) Сайт года . ... Победитель: Астронет - http://www.astronet.ru/ : подано голосов экспертов - 109 (всего - 129) . ... 3-е место разделили: Астрономия и Телескопостроение - http://www.astronomer.ru/ и Лента новостей космонавтики от Железнякова - http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/hotnews/ : подано по 37 голосов; ...

Shades of Deep Purple (USA: Tetragrammaton 1968 ; Europe: EMI Parlaphone 1968 ; Japan: Polydor 1968) (CD) . Deep Purple's debut album, recorded very hastily. ... Tracks: . ... Wring That Neck (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice) . ... All tracks written by Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice . ... Painted Horse (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Child in Time (Live, 690924) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Bonus tracks on Japanese CD: Lazy (edited) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ...