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http://twistedsifter.com/2013/02/detailed-photos-of-the-sun-by-backyard-astronomer-alan-friedman/
Detailed Photos of the Sun by a Backyard Astronomer
By day, Alan Friedman makes greeting cards for Great Arrow Graphics. At night, Friedman pursues his passion for astronomy from his observatory, located in the backyard of his home in Buffalo, New York. While it’s not an ideal site, given the street lights, telephone wires and jet stream winds. He makes the most of it, focusing on the brighter objects in the sky like our sun, moon and nearby planets.
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Jul 172012
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2012 July 8
Image Credit & Copyright: Sigurdur H. Stefnisson
Jul 172012
Pick of the Week
Machholz Comet Babies Lead the Way (July 16, 2012)
As it is making its fourth appearance in the SOHO/LASCO cameras, we didn’t think that Comet 96P/Machholz could hold many more surprises for us. Shows how wrong you can be about comets!…
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Hot Shots from SOHO
Transit of Venus 2012 for SOHO
On June 5, 2012 at sunset on the East Coast of North America and earlier for other parts of the U.S., the planet Venus will make its final trek across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth…
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Jun 062012
Venus Transit
Jun 042012
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Heads up! Transit of Venus, 2012 June 5-6th
One of the rarest of celestial spectacles is the transit of the planet Venus in front of the disc of the Sun as viewed from the Earth. Indeed, this event did not occur at all in the twentieth century and takes place only twice in the twenty-first, the first of which, on June 8th, 2004, you’ve already missed. So it’s either catch the big show on June 5–6th of 2012 or plan to hang in there until the next transit of Venus on the 11th of December 2117.
May 272012
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May 162012
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Apr 052012
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2012 April 5
Copyright: Miloslav Druckmüller (UM FSI, Brno Univ. of Technology), Shadia Habbal (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii) Explanation: Sweeping from the eastern to western horizon, this 360 degree panorama follows the band of zodiacal light along the solar system’s ecliptic plane. Dust scattering sunlight produces the faint zodiacal glow that spans this fundamental coordinate plane of the celestial sphere, corresponding to the apparent yearly path of the Sun through the sky and the plane of Earth’s orbit. The fascinating panorama is a mosaic of images taken from dusk to dawn over the course of a single night at two different locations on Mauna Kea. The lights of Hilo, Hawaii are on the eastern (left) horizon, with the Subaru and twin Keck telescope structures near the western horizon. On that well chosen moonless night, Venus was shining as the morning star just above the eastern horizon, and Saturn was close to opposition. In fact, Saturn is seen immersed in a brightening of the zodiacal band known as the gegenschein. The gegenschein also lies near 180 degrees in elongation or angular distance from the Sun along the ecliptic. In the mosaic projection, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs at an angle, crossing the horizontal band of zodiacal light above the two horizons. Nebulae, stars, and dust clouds of the bulging galactic center are rising in the east.
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Jan 282012
Canadian teenagers send Lego man into space
Using home-stitched parachute and equipment found on Craigslist, two 17-year-olds send Lego-naut 80,000ft into the air
Lego man in space makes one (very) small step. Link to this video
Two Canadian teenagers have sent a Lego man into the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere using a home-stitched parachute and equipment found on Craigslist.
Two weeks ago, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached the plastic figurine replete with maple leaf flag to a helium balloon, which they sent 80,000 feet into the air.
The pair managed to capture the entire journey into the blackness of space, including the descent, which lasted 97 minutes, using four cameras, at an entire cost of just £254.
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Simple calculation
http://www.sunposition.info/sunposition/spc/locations.php#1
Graph inside of the map:
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Line on the map NOAA
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Oct 042011
Sep 252011
Neutrino Surprise
To the shock of the physics world, news broke Thursday that the OPERA experiment had clocked neutrinos going faster than the speed of light between CERN and Italy’s Gran Sasso Laboratory 730 kilometers away. Very soon, it became clear there were two possibilities. The first, that the measurement was correct, would mean the shattering of a fundamental constant in physics. The alternative is that despite due diligence in finding an explanation, experimenters had overlooked a source of systematic error. Now physicists are scouring the results, published on arXiv, for an explanation as other neutrino experiment scramble to try to repeat the results. Until then, you can read our bloggers’ takes on this exciting news, as well as a live blog from the CERN presentation on Friday.
http://www.quantumdiaries.org/
Aug 252011
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