... 2010 December 23 . The Solstice Moon's Eclipse . ... Explanation: A big, bright, beautiful Full Moon slid into planet Earth's shadow early Tuesday morning. Remarkably, the total lunar eclipse coincided with the date of the December Solstice . During the eclipse , the best viewing in North America found the coppery lunar disc high in a cold winter sky, the Moon reddened by light filtering into the Earth's dark central shadow or umbra . ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit Copyright: Dennis L. Mammana ( TWAN ) Explanation: On the morning of November 14, sky gazers from around the world gathered on this little planet to stand in the dark umbral shadow of the Moon . Of course, the Moon cast the shadow during last month's total solar eclipse , and the little planet is actually a beach on Green Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. ... Publications with keywords: total solar eclipse . ... Moon Shadow Sequence . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This month Jupiter the largest of all planets, remains visible in the sky after sunset, not setting until after 11pm.€а On the evening of 12and 13 December the bright star-like object close to the Moon will be this gas giant planet. ... Rising this month is the great winter constellation of Orion the Hunter who will remain in our night sky through until March. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the December Sky | ...

Eclipses . ... Larger version available by clicking on images. www.my-spot.com > Astronomy by Frank > Eclipses . ... Had a bright and beautiful day on December 25, 2000 for both viewing and photographing this eclipse. this is a 1/250 sec exposure on Kodak Supra 400. ... Lunar Eclipse, Totality . ... The weather reports for seeing the eclipse did not look promising, but when the time came the cloud deck was just transparent enough to view and photograph. ... Lunar Eclipse, Just Before Totality . ...

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

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 . ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

... Australia?s 2002 Total Eclipse of the Sun . ... A total eclipse of the Sun is arguably the most awesome sight in all of nature. Day is suddenly replaced with an eerie twilight and the Sun?s brilliant disk is blocked by the dark Moon. ... This incredible spectacle is visible once every year or two when the Moon?s small dark umbral shadow races across our planet?s surface. The ensuing path of totality is typically about 150 kilometers wide but can stretch halfway around the globe. ...

... In most situations, light helps us to see. But when it comes to looking at the night sky, light actually blocks our vision. ... You should be able to see around 2,500 stars with your naked eyes, but if you live in a big city or town, you probably see less than 10 stars on a normal night! This amazing space picture shows the shining star clusters and swirls of colourful gases of the Carina Nebula: an enormous expanse of gas, dust and stars lying deep in the heart of the Milky Way. ...

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Several lunar eclipses have been visible from the New York area as these photographs from AAA members show. ... Penumbral lunar eclipse, New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

This section describes the calculation by which Aristarchus used the duration of a total lunar eclipse to deduce the distance of the Moon. ... This lesson plan supplements: "How Distant is the Moon--1", section #8c: on disk Shipprc2.htm , on the web . ... The shadow of the Earth at the Moon's distance is narrower than the Earth, because the Sun is seen not as a point but as a disk 0.5 degrees wide. ... An eclipse of the Moon is the passage of the Moon through the shadow of the Earth. ...

The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

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... January 8, 2007 . ... SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT . Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have discovered a surprisingly massive halo of bright, old stars around our galactic neighbor Andromeda, pushing the outer limits of the galaxy to 1.5 million light years, and teaching them how spiral galaxies behave. ... Younger stars may be remnants of a galaxy devoured, but older stars could have formed with the birth of the galaxy. ... http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/January/08/local/stories/03local.htm . ...

... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Jupiter brightens the December sky . ... The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, reaches maximum brightness the night of December 2. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email...

INTEGRAL observations of SS433 : new results Anatol Cherepashchuk Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia In collaboration with: Rashid Sunyaev ... Eleonora Antokhina, Nikolai Shakura, Darja Kosenko, Elena Seifina,Sergey Molkov (IKI) 1 Overview · Introduction · · · · Observations Analysis of hard X-ray spectra Analysis of hard X-ray eclipses Discussion and conclusions December 26, 2007 ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

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 . ...