March 2016
... temperature high enough to cause microbial sterilization there is certainly no life on this planet. Venus’ dense atmospheric pressure is a crushing 92 times that of Earth. It’s sad because Venus is only slightly smaller than Earth with a similar gravity that could hold life giving liquid water on th ...
... temperature high enough to cause microbial sterilization there is certainly no life on this planet. Venus’ dense atmospheric pressure is a crushing 92 times that of Earth. It’s sad because Venus is only slightly smaller than Earth with a similar gravity that could hold life giving liquid water on th ...
The Closest New Stars To Earth
... giant star-forming regions like the Orion Nebula, containing thousands of new stars with light so bright it's visible to the naked eye. At over 400 parsecs (1,300 light years) distant, it's one of the most spectacular sights in the night sky, and the vast majority of the light from galaxies originat ...
... giant star-forming regions like the Orion Nebula, containing thousands of new stars with light so bright it's visible to the naked eye. At over 400 parsecs (1,300 light years) distant, it's one of the most spectacular sights in the night sky, and the vast majority of the light from galaxies originat ...
Worldly Wise 3000
... Read the story below and then answer the questions that follow it. How far up does the sky go? It seems to go on forever. No one knows where space ends or if it has an end. So let us explore a small piece of it, our system of planets. People have always gazed at the night sky. Long ago, they saw th ...
... Read the story below and then answer the questions that follow it. How far up does the sky go? It seems to go on forever. No one knows where space ends or if it has an end. So let us explore a small piece of it, our system of planets. People have always gazed at the night sky. Long ago, they saw th ...
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... for him but popular targets for astronomers ever since. Sir William Herschel (1738-1822) and other astronomers would turn larger and larger telescopes towards these catalogued “nebulosities” and discover many to have a generally circular, and often spiral-shaped, structure; they called these spiral ...
... for him but popular targets for astronomers ever since. Sir William Herschel (1738-1822) and other astronomers would turn larger and larger telescopes towards these catalogued “nebulosities” and discover many to have a generally circular, and often spiral-shaped, structure; they called these spiral ...
Parallaxes are very small The position of Ursa Major
... 300 years ago it was discovered that stars move relative to each other and the constellations slowly change their shapes. The images to the left show Barnard's star, which has the largest proper motion of all stars. It moves by 10.4 arcseconds per year and its parallax amounts to 0.55 arcseconds. Ca ...
... 300 years ago it was discovered that stars move relative to each other and the constellations slowly change their shapes. The images to the left show Barnard's star, which has the largest proper motion of all stars. It moves by 10.4 arcseconds per year and its parallax amounts to 0.55 arcseconds. Ca ...
COMING EVENTS The Pluto Files Volume 37 Number 03 March
... you’ll be able to observe objects from other seasons. The book refers you to over 604 objects, so clearly there is more than one object identified in many of the challenges. Challenge 50 (small telescope) is to observe 12 galaxies in Markarian’s Chain. Challenge 164 (monster telescope), the Abell Ga ...
... you’ll be able to observe objects from other seasons. The book refers you to over 604 objects, so clearly there is more than one object identified in many of the challenges. Challenge 50 (small telescope) is to observe 12 galaxies in Markarian’s Chain. Challenge 164 (monster telescope), the Abell Ga ...
Astronomy Merit program @ Huntley Meadows Park
... sure to learn something. Also our policy is that the program will not proceed if there are not 2 or more adults present for the program especially those containing hikes. We will attempt to enlist adult volunteers from our center but this is not always possible so prepare for the possibility that yo ...
... sure to learn something. Also our policy is that the program will not proceed if there are not 2 or more adults present for the program especially those containing hikes. We will attempt to enlist adult volunteers from our center but this is not always possible so prepare for the possibility that yo ...
Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 Hubble Space Telescope
... image; the green and red, NICMOS exposures. The white is emission from the hot gas surrounding the central star; the red and pink represent emission from cool molecular hydrogen gas. I n effect, the colors represent the three layers in the material ejected by the dying star. Each layer depicts a cha ...
... image; the green and red, NICMOS exposures. The white is emission from the hot gas surrounding the central star; the red and pink represent emission from cool molecular hydrogen gas. I n effect, the colors represent the three layers in the material ejected by the dying star. Each layer depicts a cha ...
1 SMARTnet: First Experience of Setting Up a Telescope System to
... telescope with an aperture of 20cm will serve for fast survey while the larger one, a telescope with an aperture of 50cm, will be used for follow-up observations. The telescopes will be operated by GSOC from Oberpfaffenhofen by the internal monitoring and control system called SMARTnetMAC. The obser ...
... telescope with an aperture of 20cm will serve for fast survey while the larger one, a telescope with an aperture of 50cm, will be used for follow-up observations. The telescopes will be operated by GSOC from Oberpfaffenhofen by the internal monitoring and control system called SMARTnetMAC. The obser ...
September 2011 - Newbury Astronomical Society
... All the usual advice given to beginners to astronomy applies. That is: dress to keep warm, make yourself comfortable and avoid lights that shine directly into your face. Little needs to be said about dressing to keep warm except to start observing in warm clothes and don’t wait until cold has set in ...
... All the usual advice given to beginners to astronomy applies. That is: dress to keep warm, make yourself comfortable and avoid lights that shine directly into your face. Little needs to be said about dressing to keep warm except to start observing in warm clothes and don’t wait until cold has set in ...
Astrophotography
Astrophotography is a specialized type of photography for recording images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky. The first photograph of an astronomical object (the Moon) was taken in 1840, but it was not until the late 19th century that advances in technology allowed for detailed stellar photography. Besides being able to record the details of extended objects such as the Moon, Sun, and planets, astrophotography has the ability to image objects invisible to the human eye such as dim stars, nebulae, and galaxies. This is done by long time exposure since both film and digital cameras can accumulate and sum light photons over these long periods of time. Photography revolutionized the field of professional astronomical research, with long time exposures recording hundreds of thousands of new stars and nebulae that were invisible to the human eye, leading to specialized and ever larger optical telescopes that were essentially big cameras designed to collect light to be recorded on film. Direct astrophotography had an early role in sky surveys and star classification but over time it has given way to more sophisticated equipment and techniques designed for specific fields of scientific research, with film (and later astronomical CCD cameras) becoming just one of many forms of sensor.Astrophotography is a large sub-discipline in amateur astronomy where it is usually used to record aesthetically pleasing images, rather than for scientific research, with a whole range of equipment and techniques dedicated to the activity.