All About Space Astronomer Book - 2014 UK

Event driven astronomy [5] The brilliant planet Venus in conjunction with the Pleiades open cluster. [6] Planet Mars close to th ...

[9] Some of the stages visible during a total eclipse of the Sun. eclipse. In the strictest sense this isn’t an eclipse at all, ...

Event driven astronomy [11] The so called “Diamond Ring” effect caused by sunlight shining through depressions in the edge of th ...

chromosphere and a large prominence around the edge of the Sun is quite a sight to behold. As your eyes slowly get used to the r ...

Event driven astronomy The Earth’s umbral shadow is larger than that of the Moon and at the distance of the Moon is still quite ...

We never know when a really bright comet may appear, and when they do so they cause a great deal of interest, and in former time ...

Event driven astronomy through the dust scattered around the orbit of a comet, can appear more organised and produce what’s know ...

Astronomer Book meteor train. Trains which last for several seconds may be subject to the effects of high altitude winds and be ...

Event driven astronomy [21] Wolfe Creek Crater in western Australia is on average 875 metres in diameter (Sir Patrick Moore). [2 ...

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City of the stars CHAPTER 8 This picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 247 was taken at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla ...

Astronomer Book By city of the stars we mean our own particular Galaxy, the Milky Way, though technically the Milky Way is the m ...

City of the stars The star then has to change its whole structure. Heavy atoms are built up from those already created, until fi ...

Astronomer Book Stellar Classification The light that we receive from a star contains a vast amount of information about its mak ...

City of the stars [5] Supernova 1987a is seen in the left- hand photograph, and, at right, after it had subsided. The stellar ex ...

addition to the constellation, rivalling the brightest member of Cetus, a star known as Menkar. However, at its dimmest, Mira di ...

City of the stars and many make superb photographic targets. The red colouration mainly comes from light emitted by hydrogen ato ...

[10] The wonderful Cocoon Nebula lies in the northern regions of Cygnus, the Swan. This object consists of a cluster of stars kn ...

City of the stars Photographing the stars and other galactic objects as static objects is more complex because here, the more ma ...

[13] The Horsehead nebula in Orion, photographed by Ian Sharp using an 80mm refractor, with an ATIK 314L cooled CCD camera. [14] ...