his picture was taken on September 6 and it captures a rocket from NASA launching off. This rocket was names Minotaur V and its flight is from the Wallops Island in Virginia. This picture also shows the Milky Way on a starry night. THis picture is truly stunning to the human eye. This picture was taken at a 35 second exposure as the rocket is launched and leaves a streak behind. As the days go by, humans tend to rush things to get it out of the way. This picture made me realize that it is important to slow down and just enjoy life sometimes.
This week's observation from the week of November 17th is filled with a multitude of things. On Monday evening, there was a beautiful full moon. I stood outside of my house located in Sarasota around 9 pm and I then saw Orion rise right below it. Throughout the rest of the week I saw the waning moon right above Capella which was to the left of the moon. I saw Jupiter shining brightly in the lower left hand of the sky. Wednesday I saw the waning moon once again in the east. I saw Orion's foot in the southeast of the sky as well. Just like every week, I point out the constellations including, Cepheus, Draco, Andromeda, Grus, and I even saw Perseus!
I chose this picture because the colors caught my attention. Below Antares you can see emission nebula IC 4628. It is around the constellation Scorpius as well. You can make this constellation out from the picture. Ginormous stars, that are extremely hot and millions of years young, give light to the nebula with UV invisible light. By doing this, it takes the electrons away from the atoms. However, these electrons usually find the atoms again and join once again. As a result of this, a nebular glow is produced and taken over by he red emission from hydrogen, This region is about 6,000 light years away. When I first read this, it was just a number. As I think about it more and more, that "just a number" is huge and more.
This pictures shows the Sun's disk being eclipsed. This is known as a Solar Eclipse. This picture is taken in northwestern Uganda on November 3rd. This view has clear skies and the moon covers the majority of the photosphere. If you go past the bright photo sphere you will find a red tint of hydrogen glow as the outline of the lunar outline. This pictures shows it fading into the Sun's atmosphere or otherwise known as corona.
This post it called Night on a Spooky Planet. Since this was the same day as Halloween, it was called "spooky". This spooky planet we all know and love is also called planet Earth. This landscape is known to be surrounded and on a very active volcanic area in Iceland. These storms helped produce these multitude of scary colors and the greenish fog light. This picture was taken on September 12 on a dark and stormy night as you can tell by the picture. Happy Halloween!
In the Northern Hemisphere, it took me a little time to find Cygnus but I found it using Mr. Percival's techniques, Cygnus is a 2nd magnitude star and has Deneb as well. It is also in the summer triangle along with Vega and Altair. I saw a total of 6 stars in this cross. This means that I saw magnitude 4 stars around my location. The amount of stars that were visible is roughly 540 stars. Therefore, I could not see 13,460 star.
