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Lost.jpgLost...53 visiteWandering through the Evening Sky, on May 4th, 2008, Planet Mars stood in line with Castor and Pollux, the two bright stars of the constellation Gemini.
In this time exposure of the celestial alignment, Mars actually takes on a distinct yellowish hue, contrasting in color with Pollux; a giant star known to have a Jupiter-class planet, and Castor; itself a multiple Star System.
Though in mythology Pollux and Castor are twin brothers, the two stars are physically unrelated and are about 34 and 50 LY distant respectively.
Included in the skyview are Procyon, alpha star of Canis Minor, and famous star cluster M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster. Dust in our own Solar System reflecting sunlight creates the faint band of Zodiacal Light emerging from the lower right corner of the frame. Just put your cursor over the picture for help with identifications.
Of course, bright Mars can still be found in the western evening skies and tonight wanders near the crescent Moon.MareKromium
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Luna-FGL.jpgRising...100 visiteDomenica 5 Agosto, 2012, Oliviero, Papà della nostra Grande Amica e, da tempo, Partner della nostra Fondazione, Ivana Tognoloni, ha lasciato questa Dimensione (sovente, ahinoi, fatta di Sofferenza) e si è avviato lungo il Cammino che, auspicabilmente, conduce a Nuovi Lidi e Nuove Esistenze, da qualche parte, oltre i nostri Orizzonti Visibili. Tutta l'Astronave "Lunar Explorer" ed il suo Equipaggio, salutano Oliviero, nella Speranza che Ivana possa accettare l'Inevitabile e farsene una Ragione, e con la Certezza che, un giorno, Ivana ed Oliviero si ritroveranno ancora. Da qualche parte.
Con infinito affetto, Paolo C. Fienga & Lunar Explorer Italia
MareKromium
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Lunar Eclipse.jpgLunar Eclipse over England63 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day", dell'11 Settembre 2006:"Last Thursday - Sept., 7th, 2006 -, part of our Moon turned dark. The cause, this time, was not a partial lunar phase - the Moon was full - but rather that part of the Moon went into Earth's shadow. The resulting Partial Lunar Eclipse was visible from the Eastern Atlantic Ocean through Europe, Africa and Asia and into the Western Pacific Ocean. The darkest part of the Lunar Eclipse, when part of the Moon was completely shielded from Sunlight, lasted about 90 minutes.
Pictured here, a partially eclipsed Moon is seen rising over an estate in Huddersfield, England. The above image was taken far away from the house in the foreground, as only this would allow it to appear as angularly small as the half-degree Moon far in the background. A setting twilight Sun lit the foreground. The next eclipse of the Moon will occur in March 2007".
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LunarEclipses.jpgEclipses...53 visiteCaption NASA, da "NASA - Picture of the Day", del 29 Febbraio 2008:"Welcome to the extra day in the Gregorian Calendar's leap year 2008! To celebrate, consider this grid of lunar eclipse pictures - starting in leap year 1996 and ending with February's eclipse - with the date in numerical year/month/day format beneath each image. Mostly based on visibility from a site in Turkey, the 3x4 matrix includes 11 of the 13 total lunar eclipses during that period, and fills out the grid with the partial lunar eclipse of September 2006. Still, as the pictures are at the same scale, they illustrate a noticeable variation in the apparent size of the eclipsed Moon caused by the real change in Earth-Moon distance around the Moon's elliptical orbit. The total phases are also seen to differ in color and darkness. Those effects are due to changes in cloud cover and dust content in the atmosphere reddening and refracting sunlight into Earth's shadow. Of course, the next chance to add a total lunar eclipse to this grid will come at the very end of the decade".MareKromium
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Lunar_Rover.jpgLuna-1 (Special Processing by Dr Marco Faccin)73 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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M 31 and Hale Bopp.jpgTemporary Sky...57 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 13 Agosto 2006:"The Moon almost ruined this photograph. During late March and early April 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp passed nearly in front of the Andromeda Galaxy.
Here the Great Comet of 1997 and the Great Galaxy in Andromeda were photographed together on 1997 March 24th. The problem was the brightness of the Moon. The Moon was full that night and so bright that long exposures meant to capture the tails of Hale-Bopp and the disk of M31 would capture instead only moonlight reflected off the Earth's atmosphere. By the time the Moon would set, this opportunity would be gone. That's why this picture was taken during a total lunar eclipse".
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M 4~0.jpgEarth-like planet and Neutron Star inside Globular Cluster M-4376 visite
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M-42_and_Milky_Way.jpgGalactic Rainbow54 visite"...In Science, read, by preference, the newest works; in Literature, the oldest..."
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) - "Caxtoniana - Hints of mental Culture" (1863)MareKromium
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M-45~0.jpgM 45 and Venus55 visite"...L'Opium agrandit ce qui n'a pas de bornes,
Allonge l'Illimité,
Approfondit le Temps, creuse la Volupté,
Et de plaisirs noirs et mornes
Remplit l'ame au-delà de sa capacité..."
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) - "Le Poison" (1857)
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MERCURY SKY.jpgMercury from Earth147 visitenessun commento
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MOON OVER VIENNA.jpgSolar eclypse over Vienna67 visiteUn'immagine bellissima: non servono altri commenti.
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MOONRISE.jpgMoonrise147 visiteUna delle tante 'immagini artistiche' che ci aiutano a ricordare quanto la Natura sia misteriosa e, nel contempo, assolutamente affascinante ed inesplicabile.
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