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The total lunar eclipse is over but the photos keep coming in! Suzanne Murphy provided this photo of the eclipsed moon near the star Spica. Total lunar eclipse for the Americas on night of April 14-15 http://bit.ly/OpJyqV
When do cloud bottoms appear like bubbles? Normally, cloud bottoms are flat. This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will condense into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow, an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. Such pockets may occur in turbulent air near a thunderstorm. Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. The mammatus clouds pictured above were photographed over Hastings, Nebraska during 2004 June.
A beautiful, reddened Moon slid through dark skies on April 15, completely immersed in Earth's shadow for well over an hour. It was the year's first total lunar eclipse and was widely enjoyed over the planet's Western Hemisphere. Seen from the Caribbean island of Barbados, the dimmed lunar disk is captured during totality in this colorful skyview. The dark Moon's red color contrasts nicely with bright bluish star Spica, alpha star of the constellation Virgo, posing only about two degrees away. Brighter than Spica and about 10 degrees from the Moon on the right, Mars is near opposition and closest approach to Earth. The Red Planet's own ruddy hue seems to echo the color of the eclipsed Moon.
Recorded on April 15th, this total lunar eclipse sequence looks south down icy Waterton Lake from the Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, planet Earth. The most distant horizon includes peaks in Glacier National Park, USA. An exposure every 10 minutes captured the Moon's position and eclipse phase, as it arced, left to right, above the rugged skyline and Waterton town lights. In fact, the sequence effectively measures the roughly 80 minute duration of the total phase of the eclipse. Around 270 BC, the Greek astronomer Aristarchus also measured the duration of lunar eclipses - though probably without the benefit of digital clocks and cameras. Still, using geometry, he devised a simple and impressively accurate way to calculate the Moon's distance, in terms of the radius of planet Earth, from the eclipse duration. This modern eclipse sequence also tracks the successive positions of Mars, above and right of the Moon, bright star Spica next to the reddened lunar disk, and Saturn to the left and below.
Grâce aux photos prises par la sonde Cassini il y a tout juste 1 an (Avril 2013), une nouvelle lune a été découverte autour de la planète Saturne! Provisoirement appelé "Peggy", ce satellite naturel a été repéré par l'astronome Carl Murray et son équipe. Peggy aurait un diamètre de 10 km environ et serait né de l'agglomération de roches qui sont en orbite, ce qui en fait plutôt un minisatellite. Sa taille relative, associée aux forces gravitationnelles des autres lunes (notamment Janus et Prométhée), laisse penser que Peggy aura une vie assez courte. En effet, ce jeune satellite fait partie d'une catégorie d'objets qui, dans cette zone des anneaux, finissent presque toujours par se désagréger...
Alors que cette nouvelle lune se situe à la limite de l'anneau F de Saturne, elle est inobservable au télescope depuis la Terre. Seule la sonde Cassini est capable de révéler l'apparence de l'objet.
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