The Colors of IC 1795
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091210.html
In this picture there are glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds. That appear to be in IC 1795. These glowing gas clouds probably consist or approximately 99% of the interstellar medium is composed of interstellar gas, and of its mass, about 75% is in the form of hydrogen with the remaining 25% as helium. To look for this in the sky you would have to look at the star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The colors that are formed are caused by Hubble false-color palette. This means that a lot of pictures were taken of different wavelengths and combined with computers to create this beautiful picture. This picture spans around 70 light-years across IC 1795, the actual image is 6,000 light years away.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
APOD 4
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091203.html
Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660
This picture is of NGC 660. Which is the center of the this intriguing field. It was discovered in 1784 by William Herschel. This galaxy is in the constellation Pisces. This galaxy is about 20 million light-years away. NGC 600 is a polar ring galaxy which means it is a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas and dust orbiting in rings perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk this is cause by the captured debris rotating around a ring. NGC 660's ring are about 40,000 light-years long. This picture is an amazing show of how astronomy can be beautiful and so imformitive about what consists in space.
Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660
This picture is of NGC 660. Which is the center of the this intriguing field. It was discovered in 1784 by William Herschel. This galaxy is in the constellation Pisces. This galaxy is about 20 million light-years away. NGC 600 is a polar ring galaxy which means it is a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas and dust orbiting in rings perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk this is cause by the captured debris rotating around a ring. NGC 660's ring are about 40,000 light-years long. This picture is an amazing show of how astronomy can be beautiful and so imformitive about what consists in space.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Observations 2.1
On November 16th I viewed the meteor shower with the rest of the class. This observation lasted four hours. The first hour I saw five meteors. Most came from the north east but I switched my field of view to the west and then I saw two meteors from the north west. The second hour I was looking up and the the east and i saw seven meteors. The third hour I saw only four meteors. The last hour I saw six meteors. In the last hour I saw the brightest meteor out of the whole night in the East. This experience was very exciting and I saw a lot of saw constellations and a lot of stars and i enjoyed it a lot.
APOD 2.3
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091118.html
Water Discovered in Moon Shadow
This picture shows the moon. Earlier last month water was discovered on the moon. The LCROSS mission investigated a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's South Pole. The LCROSS took of with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009 at 2:32 p.m. In this picture you can see a plume of dust. Earlier this week we heard news about this dust's chemical compound. The dust plume had water traces in it. This new information changes what everyone had thought about the moon and now gives astronomers many more posibilities, like live on the moon. This discovery is very impressive and I look forward to hearing more about the moon's aspects.
Water Discovered in Moon Shadow
This picture shows the moon. Earlier last month water was discovered on the moon. The LCROSS mission investigated a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's South Pole. The LCROSS took of with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009 at 2:32 p.m. In this picture you can see a plume of dust. Earlier this week we heard news about this dust's chemical compound. The dust plume had water traces in it. This new information changes what everyone had thought about the moon and now gives astronomers many more posibilities, like live on the moon. This discovery is very impressive and I look forward to hearing more about the moon's aspects.
Friday, November 13, 2009
APOD 2.2
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud
In this picture you see a lot of stars of different shapes, colors, and sizes. The "newborn" stars and cosmic dust clouds, that looks like fog, are glowing in an infrared wavelength range. This is what is causing the "false- color" stars in the picture. This picture was taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope. This Telescope has been very helpful in not only taking beautiful pictures but also in astronomical growths like helping Astronomers make observations about chaotic planetary systems. In this picture is a star forming region which is relatively close to us about 400 light years, close to the southern edge of the Ophouchus constellation, better known as the Cirpent handeler. The rage that this picture covers is around five light years. The stars glow so brightly because as they heat up they heat up the surrounding dust to produce the infrared glow. This area has detected about 300 emerging and newly formed stars. These stars are arounf 300,000 years old, very young compared to the 5 billion year old sun.
Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud
In this picture you see a lot of stars of different shapes, colors, and sizes. The "newborn" stars and cosmic dust clouds, that looks like fog, are glowing in an infrared wavelength range. This is what is causing the "false- color" stars in the picture. This picture was taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope. This Telescope has been very helpful in not only taking beautiful pictures but also in astronomical growths like helping Astronomers make observations about chaotic planetary systems. In this picture is a star forming region which is relatively close to us about 400 light years, close to the southern edge of the Ophouchus constellation, better known as the Cirpent handeler. The rage that this picture covers is around five light years. The stars glow so brightly because as they heat up they heat up the surrounding dust to produce the infrared glow. This area has detected about 300 emerging and newly formed stars. These stars are arounf 300,000 years old, very young compared to the 5 billion year old sun.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
APOD 2.1
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Saturn After Equinox
In this picture you can see Saturn's rings and one of its moons after Equinox. You are able to see the rings because they are illuminated by the sun's light. This picture was taken by Cassini spacecraft last month. The moon that is visible is Tethys and is viewed in the crest phase but Earth's view of the moon is not visible. Tethys is one of Saturn's largest and closest moons. Saturn's rings are thought by a lot of people to be solid but with close expectation of this picture they are made up of very small electrically charged ice particles.
Saturn After Equinox
In this picture you can see Saturn's rings and one of its moons after Equinox. You are able to see the rings because they are illuminated by the sun's light. This picture was taken by Cassini spacecraft last month. The moon that is visible is Tethys and is viewed in the crest phase but Earth's view of the moon is not visible. Tethys is one of Saturn's largest and closest moons. Saturn's rings are thought by a lot of people to be solid but with close expectation of this picture they are made up of very small electrically charged ice particles.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Observations
October 12th
Today was a little cloudy so it was difficult to do this observation. So at around 8:30 all I could see was the moon and very close tot he moon was a 1st magnitude star. I did this observation for 15 minutes.
Today was a little cloudy so it was difficult to do this observation. So at around 8:30 all I could see was the moon and very close tot he moon was a 1st magnitude star. I did this observation for 15 minutes.
Observations
October 6th
At 9:00 PM the moon was in the East and was a waining gibus, the sliver of the moon that was missing was facing towards the eliptic. After surching for some consitilations I saw the Herculies constilation which was almost straight up in the sky. I look 30 minutes to do this observation.
At 9:00 PM the moon was in the East and was a waining gibus, the sliver of the moon that was missing was facing towards the eliptic. After surching for some consitilations I saw the Herculies constilation which was almost straight up in the sky. I look 30 minutes to do this observation.
Observations
October 16th
Today I did the observation for only 15 minutes at around 9PM. I was that Saturn and Venus both were close to the moon. Both to the left of the moon. Saturn a little bit higher than Venus.
Today I did the observation for only 15 minutes at around 9PM. I was that Saturn and Venus both were close to the moon. Both to the left of the moon. Saturn a little bit higher than Venus.
Observations
October 7th
At around 6:45 looking East Venus was still very high in the sky but I could tell that it had lowered. Very close to Venus but still closer to the horizon was Saturn and less than half a degree was Mercury. This was very interesting because I could see that from yesterday the stars had moves. I did this observation for 30 minutes.
At around 6:45 looking East Venus was still very high in the sky but I could tell that it had lowered. Very close to Venus but still closer to the horizon was Saturn and less than half a degree was Mercury. This was very interesting because I could see that from yesterday the stars had moves. I did this observation for 30 minutes.
Observations
October 5th
At 6:45 Venus was low in the sky. Right below Venus was Mercury then Saturn even lower. Later on the moon rose up at around 8, and the moon was almost full. I observed the sky for 30 minutes.
At 6:45 Venus was low in the sky. Right below Venus was Mercury then Saturn even lower. Later on the moon rose up at around 8, and the moon was almost full. I observed the sky for 30 minutes.
Observations
September 30th
I attended the star gaze. We viewed Jupiter though a telescope and were able to see Jupiter's moons. After one hour of observations the weather was not perfect, the sky was too cloudy to finish the rest of the time.
I attended the star gaze. We viewed Jupiter though a telescope and were able to see Jupiter's moons. After one hour of observations the weather was not perfect, the sky was too cloudy to finish the rest of the time.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Astro project Kepler
Shannon Sims
Mr. Percival
Astronomy Hon.
16 Oct. 2009
Johannes Kepler’s biography
On Decempber 27, 1571 at 2:30 PM Johannes Kepler was born. He was born in the Roman Empire of German Nationality in Weil der Stadt. Even though he was an unhealthy child he managed to get a scholarship to the University of Tubingen because of his elevated aptitude. At the University of Tubingen he studied for the Lutheran ministry. Kepler’s family was Lutheran however he did not agree with the Lutheran position on real presence, so he refused to sign the Formula of Concord, this got him rejected by the Lutheran church. Since he had been rejected by the church, and also the Catholic Church he had no safe haven in the Thirty-Year War, wich caused him to move a lot in his life time. He was eventually forced to leave Graz, where he was teaching, because of the Counter Reformation. He then moved to Prague and worked with Tycho Brache. Because he worked so closely with Tycho Brache, when he dies in 1601 Kepler got some of Tycho Brache’s in-depth, precise notes. Because Kepler was able to use Brache’s notes he was able to make many remarkable discoveries. Only eight years after Brache’s death Kepler published Astronomia Nova. This published work dealt with his discoveries and are now called “Kepler’s first two laws of planetary motion” in this book he also states that the sun revolves on an axis. In Astronomia Nova Kepler published how he overcame the flawed data. Later on his methods would go on to be called the scientific method. Again he was forced to move in 1612 from Prague to Linz. At this point in his life he was very troubled because his two sons and wife had passed away, and even though he had remarried he had private and monetary troubles. After the passing of his two daughter he moved again back to Wurttemburg. In Wurttemburg he wrote Harmonices Mundi. Astronomia Nova. In this published paper his third law was described. He continued to be forced to move but never gave up on his Astronomical discoveries. He later published Epitome Astronomiae around 1621. In this work he wrote about all of the heliocentric astronomy in an organized manner. Even later he published the Rudolphine Table. This table had been imagined by Brache. The table included the calculations for logarithms that he had created. In 1630 at Regensburg Johannes Kepler died on his was to collect a debt. Within two years his grave had been razed on account of the Thirty Year War. Kepler was the first person to accurately describe the planetary motion, how the planets obit around the sun. He is honored as the first person to use a pin hole camera to observe pictures with, describe how vision works, create glasses for far and nearsighted people, and to describe depth perception. These discriptions are all in his book Astronomia Pars Optica. He also formed a basis for integral calculus in Strerometrica Doliorum. As well as all of the accomplishments he also found out Christ’s birth year, which is now universally accepted.
Mr. Percival
Astronomy Hon.
16 Oct. 2009
Johannes Kepler’s biography
On Decempber 27, 1571 at 2:30 PM Johannes Kepler was born. He was born in the Roman Empire of German Nationality in Weil der Stadt. Even though he was an unhealthy child he managed to get a scholarship to the University of Tubingen because of his elevated aptitude. At the University of Tubingen he studied for the Lutheran ministry. Kepler’s family was Lutheran however he did not agree with the Lutheran position on real presence, so he refused to sign the Formula of Concord, this got him rejected by the Lutheran church. Since he had been rejected by the church, and also the Catholic Church he had no safe haven in the Thirty-Year War, wich caused him to move a lot in his life time. He was eventually forced to leave Graz, where he was teaching, because of the Counter Reformation. He then moved to Prague and worked with Tycho Brache. Because he worked so closely with Tycho Brache, when he dies in 1601 Kepler got some of Tycho Brache’s in-depth, precise notes. Because Kepler was able to use Brache’s notes he was able to make many remarkable discoveries. Only eight years after Brache’s death Kepler published Astronomia Nova. This published work dealt with his discoveries and are now called “Kepler’s first two laws of planetary motion” in this book he also states that the sun revolves on an axis. In Astronomia Nova Kepler published how he overcame the flawed data. Later on his methods would go on to be called the scientific method. Again he was forced to move in 1612 from Prague to Linz. At this point in his life he was very troubled because his two sons and wife had passed away, and even though he had remarried he had private and monetary troubles. After the passing of his two daughter he moved again back to Wurttemburg. In Wurttemburg he wrote Harmonices Mundi. Astronomia Nova. In this published paper his third law was described. He continued to be forced to move but never gave up on his Astronomical discoveries. He later published Epitome Astronomiae around 1621. In this work he wrote about all of the heliocentric astronomy in an organized manner. Even later he published the Rudolphine Table. This table had been imagined by Brache. The table included the calculations for logarithms that he had created. In 1630 at Regensburg Johannes Kepler died on his was to collect a debt. Within two years his grave had been razed on account of the Thirty Year War. Kepler was the first person to accurately describe the planetary motion, how the planets obit around the sun. He is honored as the first person to use a pin hole camera to observe pictures with, describe how vision works, create glasses for far and nearsighted people, and to describe depth perception. These discriptions are all in his book Astronomia Pars Optica. He also formed a basis for integral calculus in Strerometrica Doliorum. As well as all of the accomplishments he also found out Christ’s birth year, which is now universally accepted.
APOD 1.7
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090926.html
Herschel Views the Milky Way
This picture was taken with a 3.5 meter mirror telescope. This telescope is larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope,Herschel ESA, is the fourth cornerstone mission in the European Space Agency (ESA) science programme. This telescope was named after Frederick Herschel, a German British astronomer. Over 200 years ago he discovered infrared light. This light is used to show the spectacular view along the Milky Way. This telescope was designed to observe the mysteries of star formation with the surveying broad areas of the galactic plane.
Herschel Views the Milky Way
This picture was taken with a 3.5 meter mirror telescope. This telescope is larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope,Herschel ESA, is the fourth cornerstone mission in the European Space Agency (ESA) science programme. This telescope was named after Frederick Herschel, a German British astronomer. Over 200 years ago he discovered infrared light. This light is used to show the spectacular view along the Milky Way. This telescope was designed to observe the mysteries of star formation with the surveying broad areas of the galactic plane.
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