A detonating fireball in sunshine A brilliant fireball giving a loud detonation observed in sunshine from Bristol and many other places. 1922 February 7, 3.55 p.m., when sitting in a position facing north, and the sky being of that beautiful blue colour which it sometimes displays even in our unfav...
NGC 3537 (also PGC 33753 and PGC 33752) is a pair of magnitude +13.5 interacting galaxies located 376 million light-years away in the constellation Crater. The galaxies were discovered by German astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) refractor at the Arcetri Obse...
NGC 3052 (also ESO 566-26, IRAS 09521-1824, MCG -3-25-30 and PGC 28570) is a magnitude +12.1 barred spiral galaxy located 174 million lightyears away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5-cm (18.7-inch) reflector at Da...
NGC 3072 (also ESO 566-33, MCG -3-26-1 and PGC 28749) is a magnitude +12.8 lenticular galaxy located 158 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5-cm (18.7-inch) reflector at Datchet, Berkshire, o...
NGC 3091 (also ESO 566-41, MCG -3-26-7, HCG 42A and PGC 28927) is a magnitude +11.2 elliptical galaxy located 182 million lightyears away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5-cm (18.7-inch) reflector at Datchet, Berk...
Source of 'Moon Curse' Revealed by Eclipse Strange events have long been linked to nights of a full moon, though careful scrutiny dispels any association. So, when signals bounced off the lunar surface returned surprisingly faint echoes on full moon nights, scientists sought an explanation in re...
Sun 06.02.14: Ultraviolet image of the western limb Sun 06.02.14: Ultraviolet photo mosaic Sun 06.02.14: Ultraviolet image Sun 06.02.14: Photo mosaic captured with a 100mm refractor Sun 06.02.14: The eastern limb Sun 06.02.14: The eastern limb captured with a 100mm refractor Sun 06.02.14: The...
NASA Mars Orbiter Examines Dramatic New Crater Space rocks hitting Mars excavate fresh craters at a pace of more than 200 per year, but few new Mars scars pack as much visual punch as one seen in a NASA image released today. The image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera...
Orbital elements: 2010 FA81 Earth MOID = 0.0337 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 87.76738 (2000.0) P Q n 0.75783016 Peri. 140.67431 -0.97258214 +0.12545196 a 1.1914838 Node 47.71301 -0.21450827 -0.80918704 e 0.1496376 Incl. 15.34913 +0.08983416 -0.57400186 P 1.30 H 22.2 G 0.15 U 6 [...
[ISS] Launch of Soyuz-U with Progress M-22M Onboard Spoiler A Russian Soyuz-U rocket blasted off from Baikonur today, February 5th 2014 at 16:23 UTC carrying the unmanned Progress M-22M [spoiler][video=http://www.you...
Waitangi Day commemorates a significant day in the history of New Zealand. It is a public holiday held each year on 6 February to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, on that date in 1840. Read more
Greenwich Time Signal (GTS), popularly known as the pips, is a series of six short tones broadcast at one-second intervals by many BBC Radio stations to mark the precise start of each hour. The pips have been broadcast daily since 5 February 1924, and were the idea of the Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank W...
