All About Space Astronomer Book - 2014 UK

OUR STAR THE SUN CHAPTER 4 A giant prominence appears off the edge of the H-alpha Sun, NASA/SDO. Our star the Sun ...

Many years ago, an astronomer named Proctor wrote a book called Our Sun, Fire, Light and Life of the Solar System. This is by no ...

Our star the Sun Astrosolar Filters One of the most effective ways to protect a scope for white-light viewing or imaging is to c ...

Astronomer Book a filtered 4-inch under good seeing conditions. This texture, often referred to as a "rice grain" pattern, is kn ...

10 Our star the Sun 8 [8] Bright regions called plage and dark, snake-like filaments abound in this hydrogen-alpha image. [9] Th ...

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OUR FRIENDLY MOON CHAPTER 5 Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt at Tracy Rock (NASA). Our friendly Moon ...

Just as the Sun dominates the day-time sky, the Moon is Queen of the Night. The main difference is that for part of the month th ...

Our friendly Moon the Earth-Moon system, in 27.3 Earth days. This is also the period taken by the Moon to rotate on its axis. Th ...

over the period of one rotation. This does not happen in the case of the Moon, which keeps the same face turned towards us all t ...

[4] The floor of Clavius is littered with smaller craters. [5] Crater Plato has a smooth floor pitted with craterlets. [6] The i ...

[8] The subtle colour of the Moon brought out by image processing. [9] Live view focusing. [10] Earthshine captured using a DSLR ...

If the shot looks really bright, check for areas of pure white. If these exist, then the shot is over-exposed and needs to be do ...

second layer. Increase the saturation of the upper layer by a small amount, say 10–20%. Keep doing this until the colour is teas ...

[15] Part of a massive mosaic built from 62 separate but overlapping images of the Moon taken through a 14-inch SCT using a high ...

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THE PLANETS CHAPTER 6 Saturn at different tilt angles imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (WFPC2) between October 1996 and Nove ...

Astronomer Book The planets go round the Sun, rather than the Earth, and are very much further away than the Moon. The closet pl ...

The planets Imaging Mercury Mercury is a tricky planet to image because it never strays that far from the Sun. Evening appearanc ...

[3] Venus rising, caught with a DSLR camera using a 28mm lens set at f/3.5. The camera was set to ISO 400 and the exposure was 1 ...