... November 6, 1999 . X-ray Transit of Mercury . ... Explanation: This sequence of false color X-ray images captures a rare event - the passage or transit of planet Mercury in front of the Sun. Mercury's small disk is silhouetted against the bright background of X-rays from the hot Solar Corona . ... The dark notch is a coronal hole near the Solar South Pole , while a flaring coronal bright point can be seen to the left of the notch in the top frames. ... About APOD > . ...

... 3D Mercury Transit . ... Viewed with red/blue glasses , this stereo anaglyph combines space-based images of the Sun and innermost planet in a just-for-fun 3D presentation of the Mercury transit . ... Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Публикации с ключевыми словами: transit - Меркурий - Маринер-10 - солнечная обсерватория - Прохождение . Публикации со словами: transit - Меркурий - Маринер-10 - солнечная обсерватория - Прохождение . ... СТЕРЕО: прохождение Луны по диску Солнца . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 19, 1999 . Mercury And The Sun . ... TRACE Project . Explanation: Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower , skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. ... About APOD > . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... November . ... By admin September 26, 2012 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . Comet ISON is revealed.( ... Comet ISON.'s orbit and position on 25 September 2012.( ... The comet€а will reach its closest point to the Sun, perihelion in late November 2013.Then it is expected to whizz around the Sun a mere 1.1 million km above its surface making Comet ISON one of that class of comets called€а Sungrazers. ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

This is a series of periodic postings by Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association . ... Issued 2004 December 28th . Mercury correction; Comet Macholz, lecture . ... Lidl Binocs, IAA lecture, Dunsink, Geminids . ... 2004's best meteors, TV, Lecture, IAA Party . ... IAA lecture, TV Prog, 2 New Lectures, IAA sub . ... Two Lectures, ISS, next IAA lecture . ... Major TV Series, IAA Lecture . ... 2 Lectures, Lecture series, S.A.N. -Issued 2004 September 21st . ... Issued 2004 June 27th . ...

... 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) ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... Among these objects, the newly discovered Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO's) outside the orbit of planet Neptune (also known as Trans-Neptunian Objects) are of particular interest, but the meeting was also concerned with distant comets and some of the small moons of the outer planets. ... The Kuiper Belt is a zone outside the orbits of Neptune and Pluto in which icy solar system objects were expected to be present; the first was found in 1992. ... ESO Press Photo 41/98 . ... Send comments to <ips@eso.org> ...

... 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. ...

. Please standby and you will be automatically connected to the new location of the unframed Supernova page. Or, click on the link above. If you have questions or problems, please email me at David Bishop dbishop@vhdl.org . Last modified: Mon Aug 27 12:40:15 EDT 2001

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... Archive for November 2008 . Nov 19th, 2008| 01:34 am | Posted by hlee . ... Category: arXiv , Astro , Cross-Cultural , Frequentist , Methods , News , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | Comment . Nov 17th, 2008| 01:39 pm | ... Continue reading ?after ?Thanks to Henrietta Leavitt?? Category: Astro , Bad AstroStat , Data Processing , Methods , Stars , Stat | ... Tags: 2008 , cepheid , CfA , Henrietta Leavitt , Henrietta Swan Leavitt , history , November , period-luminosity , symposium . ...

Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS03 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Two students from the University of Washington's Pre-MAP (Doug Branton + One unknown student) COLLABORATORS: Doug Branton (UW/Pre-MAP) CONTACT INFORMATION: bmmorris@uw.edu, 631-860-5116 TIME REQUESTED: Weeks ...