All About Space Astronomer Book - 2014 UK

City of the stars [15] C109 (NGC 3195) the last object in the Caldwell catalogue. It is a planetary nebula. This image is from t ...

18 19 [18] Hot pixels (arrowed) are a form of static or predictable noise in an image. By taking an exposure of a similar length ...

City of the stars [21] A magnified composite showing 24 hours of star rotation around the north celestial pole. The brightest ri ...

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Beyond the stars CHAPTER 9 This picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 247 was taken at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC 247 i ...

So far we have confined ourselves to our own Galaxy. As recently as the 1930s most of the cloud-like objects in the heavens were ...

Beyond the stars Both spiral types are further divided into sub-types a, b and c, which indicate the tightness of their spiral a ...

Photographing Galaxies The process of photographing galaxies is similar in essence to that described in chapter 8 for photograph ...

Beyond the stars disruption can be fascinating to capture but do tend to require longer focal lengths to provide enough image sc ...

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Star Atlas The four bright stars of the Southern Cross shine brightly to the left of the dark Coalsack Nebula. Credit ESO/Yuri B ...

STAR ATLAS Astronomer Book USING THE STAR MAPS In the Star Atlas the stars are mapped month by month, first for the Northern Hem ...

Star Atlas ELONGATIONS OF MERCURY Date Elongation Type 2012 16 Aug 12:03 18° 41' 31" West 2012 26 Oct 22:11 24° 04' 52" East 201 ...

WINTER (NORTHERN HEMISPHERE) The Winter skies are particularly striking in the Northern Hemisphere because they are long, become ...

Star Atlas [1] The night sky in winter, centred on the constellation of Orion, under a brilliant Moon. [2] The Pleiades cluster ...

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