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21st Century Wet Collodion Moon

Сб, Январь 02, 2021 - 8:30

In the mid 19th century, one of the first photographic technologies used to record the lunar surface was the wet-plate collodion process, notably employed by British astronomer Warren De la Rue. To capture...

Астрономическая неделя с 4 по 10 января 2021 года

Пт, Январь 01, 2021 - 14:19

На данной неделе 4 января произойдет покрытие Луной (Ф= 0,67-) звезды ню Девы (4,0m) при видимости на территории России (кроме Европейской ее..

Galaxies and the South Celestial Pole

Пт, Январь 01, 2021 - 8:30

The South Celestial Pole is easy to spot in star trail images of the southern sky. The extension of Earth's axis of rotation to the south, it's at the center of all the southern star trail arcs.

Trail of the Returner

Чт, Декабрь 31, 2020 - 8:30

Familiar stars of a northern winter's night shine in this night skyview, taken near Zhangye, Gansu, China and the border with Inner Mongolia. During the early hours of December 17 Orion is near...

Jupiter and Saturn Great Conjunction: The Movie

Ср, Декабрь 30, 2020 - 8:30

Yes, but have you seen a movie of Jupiter and Saturn's Great Conjunction? The featured time-lapse video was composed from a series of images taken from Thailand and shows the two giant planets as they angularly passed about a tenth of a degree..

Earth During a Total Solar Eclipse

Вт, Декабрь 29, 2020 - 8:30

What does the Earth look like during a total solar eclipse? It appears dark in the region where people see the eclipse, because that's where the shadow of the Moon falls. The shadow...

M16: внутри туманности Орла

Пн, Декабрь 28, 2020 - 8:30

Издалека все это похоже на орла. Однако, если посмотреть на туманность Орла повнимательнее, становится ясно, что яркая

M16: Inside the Eagle Nebula

Пн, Декабрь 28, 2020 - 8:30

From afar, the whole thing looks like an Eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit

Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe

Вс, Декабрь 27, 2020 - 8:30

What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? This whimsical question came up when trying to determine what stars are commonplace in nearby galaxies. The answer,..

Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree

Сб, Декабрь 26, 2020 - 8:30

Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas fill this colorful skyscape in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust...

Northern Winter Night

Пт, Декабрь 25, 2020 - 8:30

Orion always seems to come up sideways on northern winter evenings. Those familiar stars of the constellation of the Hunter are caught above the trees in this colorful night skyscape. Not a star at all but still visible to eye, the Great