05-4-2012, 06:24 PM | #101 |
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Sorry i'm late: Returned my laptop to the school last night and I could only pick up my new laptop until now. For the sake of putting some content down today I am posting here, but will get back later.
What's in the sky tonight? May 4, 2012 -Look above the bright Moon this evening for Saturn and Spica, as shown here. Astro Picture of the Day May 4, 2012 Source: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120504.html Exploring the cosmos at extreme energies, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits planet Earth every 95 minutes. By design, it rocks to the north and then to the south on alternate orbits in order to survey the sky with its Large Area Telescope (LAT). The spacecraft also rolls so that solar panels are kept pointed at the Sun for power, and the axis of its orbit precesses like a top, making a complete rotation once every 54 days. As a result of these multiple cycles the paths of gamma-ray sources trace out complex patterns from the spacecraft's perspective, like this mesmerising plot of the path of the Vela Pulsar. Centered on the LAT instrument's field of view, the plot spans 180 degrees and follows Vela's position from August 2008 through August 2010. The concentration near the center shows that Vela was in the sensitive region of the LAT field during much of that period. Born in the death explosion of a massive star within our Milky Way galaxy, the Vela Pulsar is a neutron star spinning 11 times a second, seen as the brightest persistent source in the gamma-ray sky. Suspicious0bservers Daily Post Archive January 1, 2014 - May 31, 2014 What's in the Sky Tonight Archive January 1, 2014 - May 31, 2014 Astro Pic of the Day Archive January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2014
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05-5-2012, 11:58 AM | #102 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
April 18, 2012 May 5, 2012 -Full Moon (exact at 11:35 p.m. EDT), in Libra. This is the closest and largest full Moon of 2012, though not remarkably so. The Moon is 8% closer and larger than average, and only 0.16 magnitude brighter than average, so you'd need measuring tools to really tell. Take a look. What do you think? The moon will rise at 8:16PM in Toronto. It will vary depending where you live. Use this to calculate when it will rise in your location. Astro Picture of the Day: April 18, 2012 Source: Rising as the Sun sets, tonight's Full Moon could be hard to miss. Remarkably, its exact full phase (May 6 03:36 UT) will occur less than two minutes after it reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth in the Moon's orbit, making it the largest Full Moon of 2012. The Full Perigee Moon will appear to be some 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than a Full Moon near apogee, the most distant point in the elliptical lunar orbit. In comparison, though, it will appear less than 1 percent larger and almost as bright as April's Full Moon, captured in this telephoto image rising over suburban Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. For that lunation, Full Moon and perigee were about 21 hours apart. Of course, if you manage to miss May's Full Perigee Moon, make a note on your calendar. Your next chance to see a Full Moon close to perigee, will be next year on June 23.
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05-6-2012, 10:56 AM | #103 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 6, 2012 -Venus, the brilliant "Evening Star" in the west, is passing its closest to the star Beta Tauri, which is only 1/300 as bright at magnitude 1.6. During and after late twilight, look for the star 0.8° to Venus's upper right. That's about a pencil-width at arm's length. Astro Picture of the Day:Although they look close together, they're not. Venus is 3 light-minutes from us; Beta Tauri is 130 light-years in the background. Here is a personal photo of mine of the pair from last night. May 6, 2012 Source: In the depths of the dark clouds of dust and molecular gas known as the Omega Nebula, stars continue to form. The above image from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows exquisite detail in the famous star-forming region. The dark dust filaments that lace the center of Omega Nebula were created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from supernova explosions. The red and blue hues arise from glowing gas heated by the radiation of massive nearby stars. The points of light are the young stars themselves, some brighter than 100 Suns. Dark globules mark even younger systems, clouds of gas and dust just now condensing to form stars and planets. The Omega Nebula lies about 5000 light years away toward the constellation of Sagittarius. The region shown spans about 3000 times the diameter of our Solar System.
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05-6-2012, 12:26 PM | #104 |
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Also, did you miss the ~supermoon~? Don't worry if you did, I was attentive to capturing this (once a year) event that the media hypes up.
Open the spoiler to see a chronological order of what all the hype was about!
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05-7-2012, 06:03 AM | #105 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 7, 2012 -The waning gibbous Moon is up in the southeast by around 11 p.m., depending on where you live. Look about a fist-width to the Moon's right for fiery Antares. Around and upper right of Antares are other stars of Scorpius. -Jupiter is lost in the glare of the Sun. Astro Picture of the Day: May 7, 2012 Source: It's easy to get lost following the intricate filaments in this detailed mosaic image of faint supernova remnant Simeis 147. Also cataloged as Sh2-240 and seen towards the constellation Taurus, it covers nearly 3 degrees (6 full moons) on the sky. That corresponds to a width of 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. The remarkable composite includes image data taken through narrow-band filters to highlight emission from hydrogen and oxygen atoms tracing regions of shocked, glowing gas. This supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years - meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago. But this expanding remnant is not the only aftermath. The cosmic catastrophe also left behind a spinning neutron star or pulsar, all that remains of the original star's core.
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05-8-2012, 06:04 AM | #106 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 8, 2012 -The brightest star very high in the east these evenings is Arcturus. Look three fist-widths to its lower right for Saturn and, a little farther on, Spica. -Mars in a telescope is gibbous and small, about 9.5 arcseconds wide, fading and shrinking each week. Regulus is about 7° Mars's right or lower right and moving farther from it daily. Fainter Gamma Leonis is 8° above Regulus. Astro Picture of the Day: May 8, 2012 Source: What is that strange blue blob on the far right? No one is sure, but it might be a speeding remnant of a powerful supernova that was unexpectedly lopsided. Scattered debris from supernova explosion N49 lights up the sky in this gorgeous composited image based on data from the Chandra and Hubble Space Telescopes. Glowing visible filaments, shown in yellow, and X-ray hot gas, shown in blue, span about 30 light-years in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Light from the original exploding star reached Earth thousands of years ago, but N49 also marks the location of another energetic outburst -- an extremely intense blast of gamma-rays detected by satellites about 30 years ago on 1979 March 5. The source of the March 5th Event is now attributed to a magnetar - a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star also born in the ancient stellar explosion which created supernova remnant N49. The magnetar, visible near the top of the image, hurtles through the supernova debris cloud at over 70 thousand kilometers per hour. The blue blob on the far right, however, might have been expelled asymmetrically just as a massive star was exploding. If so, it now appears to be moving over 7 million kilometers per hour.
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05-9-2012, 06:03 AM | #107 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 9, 2012 -Look for bright Vega moderately low in the northeast after darkness falls, and higher later. To Vega's lower right dangle fainter stars of the little constellation Lyra. -Venus is now a crescent about 42 arcseconds tall and 20% sunlit, waning and enlarging daily. Venus will transit the face of the Sun on June 5–6 (on the afternoon of the 5th for North America). This is the last transit of Venus until 2117. Astro Picture of the Day: May 9, 2012 Source: A lovely starfield in the heroic northern constellation Perseus holds this famous pair of open or galactic star clusters, h and Chi Perseii. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. Separated by only a few hundred light-years, the clusters' ages based on their individual stars are similar - evidence that they were likely a product of the same star-forming region. Always a rewarding sight in binoculars, the Double Cluster is even visible to the unaided eye from dark locations. Star colors (and spikes) are enhanced in this beautiful, wide field, telescopic image.
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05-10-2012, 06:03 AM | #108 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 10, 2012 -For deep-sky observers, a favorite springtime telescopic star-hop runs from the end of the Big Dipper's handle to the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, and on to the Sunflower Galaxy, M63. -Venus is now a crescent about 42 arcseconds tall and 20% sunlit, waning and enlarging daily. Venus will transit the face of the Sun on June 5–6 (on the afternoon of the 5th for North America). This is the last transit of Venus until 2117. This will be talked about in great detail as this date approaches. Astro Picture of the Day: May 10, 2012 Source: The rise of the Super Moon was preceded by a Green Flash, captured in the first frame of this timelapse video recorded that night in Brittany, France. The cropped image of the frame, a two second long exposure, shows the strongly colored flash left of the lighted buoy near picture center. While the Super Moon was enjoyed at locations all around the world, the circumstances that produced the Green Flash were more restrictive. Green flashes for both Sun and Moon are caused by atmospheric refraction enhanced by long, low, sight lines and strong atmospheric temperature gradients often favored by a sea horizon. The matching video can be found here, which really gives an impression on how long the green flash lasts.: http://vimeo.com/41670884
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05-11-2012, 06:03 AM | #109 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 11, 2012 -Brilliant Venus is dropping lower in the west-northwest every evening this month. A telescope shows it enlarging and waning in phase, as shown here; it's swinging ever closer to the line between us and the Sun. Look a little to its right for the much fainter star Beta Tauri. As of tonight the planet and star are 1½° apart. Astro Picture of the Day: May 11, 2012 Source: NGC 3314 is actually two large spiral galaxies which just happen to almost exactly line up. The foreground spiral is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters. But against the glow of the background galaxy, dark swirling lanes of interstellar dust appear to dominate the face-on spiral's structure. The dust lanes are surprisingly pervasive, and this remarkable pair of overlapping galaxies is one of a small number of systems in which absorption of light from beyond a galaxy's own stars can be used to directly explore its distribution of dust. NGC 3314 is about 140 million light-years (background galaxy) and 117 million light-years (foreground galaxy) away in the multi-headed constellation Hydra. The background galaxy would span nearly 70,000 light-years at its estimated distance. A synthetic third channel was created to construct this dramatic new composite of the overlapping galaxies from two color image data in the Hubble Legacy Archive.
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05-12-2012, 10:27 AM | #110 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 12, 2012 -Last-quarter Moon (exact at 5:47 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time). The Moon rises in the middle of the night, looking lopsided and awkward in dim Aquarius. -Keep an eye out for 2 very exciting events coming up. On May 20, we are featured to an annular solar eclipse, and June 5th brings us the Transit of Venus. The annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon is too far away from the Earth to successfully block the whole body of the sun, forming a "ring" of Sun. Hence the name, annular solar eclipse. See here for an example: Astro Picture of the Day: May 12, 2012 Source: Two stars within our own Milky Way galaxy anchor the foreground of this cosmic snapshot. Beyond them lie the galaxies of the Hydra Cluster. In fact, while the spiky foreground stars are hundreds of light-years distant, the Hydra Cluster galaxies are over 100 million light-years away. Three large galaxies near the cluster center, two yellow ellipticals (NGC 3311, NGC 3309) and one prominent blue spiral (NGC 3312), are the dominant galaxies, each about 150,000 light-years in diameter. An intriguing overlapping galaxy pair cataloged as NGC 3314 is just above and left of NGC 3312. This was yesterday's Picture of the Day. Can you spot it? Also known as Abell 1060, the Hydra galaxy cluster is one of three large galaxy clusters within 200 million light-years of the Milky Way. In the nearby universe, galaxies are gravitationally bound into clusters which themselves are loosely bound into superclusters that in turn are seen to align over even larger scales. At a distance of 100 million light-years this picture would be about 1.3 million light-years across.
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I really respect the amount of effort you put to update this constantly.
Really enjoy reading it every day, thanks for the posts man
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05-13-2012, 08:48 AM | #112 |
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I do my best to update the thread daily in a timely manner, I had a stretch of 5 days where I had posted within 1 minute of each other. lmfao
Next week I am cruising up to Tobermory, where I will be camping from Saturday to Monday. I will not have internet access, so this thread will likely be passed off to Sky Kitten during those days and I'll be relying on her to keep the thread alive. Having said that, NEW FEATURE ADDED The upcoming events tab shows important or special events that are more rare than what you'd expect to find in the "What's in the Sky Tonight?" Tab. They'll show up there when it's almost the day of the event, but the upcoming events will give you no more than a months notice of something to look forward to. While I'm in Tobermory, there will be an annular solar eclipse. It will be setting when the moon begins passing the sun at this location, so it should make for an interesting photo (bearing clear skies!) What's in the sky tonight? May 13, 2012 -Use Venus, the bright landmark point in the west-northwest at dusk, to identify stars in the May twilight. Capella is to Venus's upper right. Pollux and Castor are farther to Venus's upper left, and Procyon is lower left of Pollux. These four stars form the enormous Twilight Arch of Spring. -In a telescope, Venus is a crescent becoming more interesting all the time. It has enlarged to about 46 arcseconds tall while waning to about 15% sunlit; watch it changing daily. You may even see Venus's crescent shape with good, firmly braced binoculars. An arcminute is 1/360th of a degree. An arcsecond is 1/360th of an arcminute. Astro Picture of the Day: May 13, 2012 Source: Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Trifid Nebula. Also known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with good binoculars towards the constellation of Sagittarius. The energetic processes of star formation create not only the colors but the chaos. The red-glowing gas results from high-energy starlight striking interstellar hydrogen gas. The dark dust filaments that lace M20 were created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from supernovae explosions. Which bright young stars light up the blue reflection nebula is still being investigated. The light from M20 we see today left perhaps 3,000 years ago, although the exact distance remains unknown. Light takes about 50 years to cross M20.
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05-14-2012, 06:31 AM | #113 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 14, 2012 -The pair of points you'll find shining fairly high in the southeast at nightfall are Saturn and (to its lower right) Spica. Look to their lower right for the four-star pattern of Corvus, the Crow. Look farther to their upper left for brighter Arcturus, the "Spring Star." -Jupiter is in conjunction behind the Sun. Astro Picture of the Day: May 14, 2012 Source: In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight, in this exaggerated color image. Saturn's rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image. Seen in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn's E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.
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05-15-2012, 06:11 AM | #114 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 15, 2012 -Arcturus shines high in the southeast after dark. Vega, equally bright, shines lower in the northeast. A third of the way from Arcturus to Vega look for dim Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, with its one modestly bright star, Alphecca. -Two thirds of the way from Arcturus to Vega is the dim Keystone of Hercules. Astro Picture of the Day: May 15, 2012 Source: Earth Observatory - Total Solar Eclipse of March 29, 2006: The International Space Station (ISS) was in position to view the umbral (ground) shadow cast by the Moon as it moved between the Sun and the Earth during the solar eclipse on March 29, 2006. This astronaut image captures the umbral shadow across southern Turkey, northern Cyprus, and the Mediterranean Sea. To the casual observer who is outside the world, they would see a black blotch such as the one shown here cutting through the bright daylight sphere; a black void in a world of blues and greens. The photo also helps illustrate why on the ground, the sky gets very dark during a total solar eclipse.
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Holy shit.
Instant 5 star thread. I love you <3 "PSR B1509-58 is a pulsar approximately 17,000 light-years away in the constellation of Circinus discovered by the Einstein X-Ray Observatory in 1982. It is approximately 1700 years old and sits in a nebula that spans about 150 light years. NASA described the star as "a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand"
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Pulsars are awesome. "Every pulsar is a neutron star, but not ever neutron star is a pulsar." Thanks for sharing the photo!
I have added a detailed map of the Annular Solar Eclipse under the "Upcoming Events" tab. If you are NOT shaded region at the edges of the map as indicated, you will be able to see some or all of the eclipse.
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05-16-2012, 06:10 AM | #117 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 16, 2012 -This is the time of year when the Big Dipper floats upside down at its highest due north when the stars come out. Far below it is Polaris. Far below Polaris, near or even below the horizon depending on your latitude, is W-shaped Cassiopeia. Astro Picture of the Day: May 16, 2012 Source: How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. The above illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth's Moon, but slightly larger than Saturn's moon Rhea which, like many moons in our outer Solar System, is mostly water ice. How even this much water came to be on the Earth and whether any significant amount is trapped far beneath Earth's surface remain topics of research.
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05-17-2012, 06:12 AM | #118 |
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What's in the sky tonight?
May 17, 2012 -The Summer Triangle is fully up in the east by about 11 p.m. Its top star is Vega, the brightest in the eastern sky. About two fist-widths to Vega's lower left is Deneb. Farther to Vega's lower right is Altair. If you have a dark sky, you'll see that the Milky Way runs through it. Astro Picture of the Day: May 17, 2012 Source: The Herschel Space Observatory's infrared view of Cygnus X spans some 6x2 degrees across one of the closest, massive star forming regions in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the rich stellar nursery already holds the massive star cluster known as the Cygnus OB2 association. But those stars are more evident by the region cleared by their energetic winds and radiation near the bottom center of this field, and are not detected by Herschel instruments operating at long infrared wavelengths. Herschel does reveal the region's complex filaments of cool gas and dust that lead to dense locations where new massive stars are forming. Cygnus X lies some 4500 light-years away toward the heart of the northern constellation of the Swan. At that distance this picture would be almost 500 light-years wide.
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05-18-2012, 06:18 AM | #119 |
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Attention: This is the last time I will personally be updating this thread until the 22nd of May. Sky Kitten will be taking over for me while I embark on a camping trip over 360km away from my computer. I will be in an area with virtually no light pollution, and with any luck, weather permitting, I may just end up posting my own photos as the picture of the day. :P Having said this, for May 20ths Annular eclipse, if you cannot see it because you're outside of the path, you can go online here to choose your area to watch:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/...151887305.html What's in the sky tonight? May 18, 2012 -Arcturus is the brightest star high in the southeast these evenings. It's the leading light of the constellation Bootes, the Herdsman. The main stars of Bootes form a narrow, bent kite shape extending left of Arcturus, nearly three fists at arm's length long. Or maybe the kite is a pointy-toed shoe, with Arcturus the tip of the toe. This constellation also holds the Bootes Void, a huge mass of space with almost no galaxies. Astro Picture of the Day: May 18, 2012 Source: On June 1, the shadow of the New Moon was cast across a land of the midnight Sun in last year's second partial solar eclipse. This picture of the geocentric celestial event above the Arctic Circle was taken near midnight from northern Finland's Kaunispää Hill in Lapland. Of course the region's reindeer were able to watch as both Moon and Sun hugged the northern horizon just above a cloud bank. Also visible from parts of Alaska and Canada, the eclipse began at sunrise in Siberia and northern China at 19:25 UT, ending about 3.5 hours later north of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean. Remarkably, just one lunation later, on July 1 the New Moon's shadow again reached out and touched the Earth in a partial solar eclipse, limited in visibility to a relatively small area in the Antarctic Ocean. This is the beginning of what most people are going to see in the evening around around or before sundown in the United States on May 20th.
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05-19-2012, 09:18 AM | #120 |
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Re: Terry's Astronomy Thread.
What's in the sky tonight?
May 19, 2012 -Venus, moving lower in the west every evening as twilight fades, is now 2° left of much fainter Beta Tauri, which has been descending almost in parallel with it. Have you been monitoring the crescent Venus this month? -Partial/annular solar eclipse tomorrow! On Sunday afternoon, all but easternmost North America will experience at least a partial eclipse of the Sun. So will the Pacific and (on the morning of May 21st local date) the eastern half of Asia. The eclipse will become annular — with the rim of the Sun a brilliant ring surrounding the dark silhouette of the Moon — along a path from south China and parts of Japan across the Pacific to the California-Oregon coast and from there southeastward to end at sunset in Texas. If you are not in the path of the Eclipse, you can watch it happen online live here.[U Astro Picture of the Day: May 19, 2012 Source: On June 15, the totally eclipsed Moon was very dark, with the Moon itself positioned on the sky toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. This simple panorama captures totality from northern Iran in 8 consecutive exposures each 40 seconds long. In the evocative scene, the dark of the eclipsed Moon competes with the Milky Way's faint glow. The tantalizing red lunar disk lies just above the bowl of the dark Pipe Nebula, to the right of the glowing Lagoon and Trifid nebulae and the central Milky Way dust clouds. At the far right, the wide field is anchored by yellow Antares and the colorful clouds of Rho Ophiuchi. To identify other sights of the central Milky Way just slide your cursor over the image. The total phase of this first lunar eclipse of 2011 lasted an impressive 100 minutes. Parts of the eclipse were visible from most of planet Earth, with notable exceptions of North and Central America. While the Milky Way Bluearrowll is probably seeing right now (weather permitting) is not going to feature a total eclipse deep in it, tomorrow's Annular Solar Eclipse should more than make up for that.
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