Photopic Sky Survey

NASA's Planetary Photojournal Sun`s path June to December « Helpmyphysics Last June I placed some photographic film into a tin cannister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin cannister was then attached to a clothes pole in my backgarden and left. This afternoon I fetched the cannister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic film and with the aid of some image software made the image negative. The result is the picture above. The picture clearly shows the path of the sun through the sky over the last six months. This has been a fascinating simple project that was carried out very easily. Solar Path Experiment

40 Gigapixels - World's Largest indoor Photo: Strahov Philosophical Library, Prague - 360º Panorama About this photo This image was created from 3,000 individual photos stitched together into a single image that is 280,000 x 140,000 pixels. That's around 40 gigapixels, or 40,000 megapixels. If you printed this photo it would be 23 meters (or 78 feet) long! To control this image, use the controls on the screen or click and hold your mouse button on the photo, and move your mouse around. If you would like us to create a large gigapixel panorama like you see here, please contact 360Cities. Commission a gigapixel like this one We will shoot and deliver a specially commissioned spherical gigapixel photo for you to use in connection with your marketing campaign, tourism promotion, etc. About 360cities.net We show you the world's most beautiful places in 360º. We publish, license, and distribute the world's largest collection of geolocated panoramic photos, created by our talented community of member photographers. About this photo Commission a gigapixel like this one About 360cities.net

Lunar Eclipse: Watch It Live on YouTube At 11:20 a.m. PT Wednesday, a total, 100-minute-long lunar eclipse will be visible in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. If you're not from those parts, Google and Slooh have prepared a myriad of options that let you enjoy the lunar eclipse from the relative safety of your couch. Perhaps the simplest way to watch the lunar eclipse is to tune into the live streaming video on Google's official YouTube channel. You can also follow the event on Slooh's mission interface, together with narration from astronomers, or you can watch it from the Sky layer in Google Earth by downloading this .kml file. Curating the Culture of Today's Environment SkyServer DR7 Tools for Visual Exploration The visual exploration tools built for the SkyServer make it easy to visualize and explore detailed astronomical data in regions of the sky covered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. One can specify regions of interest by central position and size. An underlying web service then combines the relevant images to form a JPEG mosaic* at the requested wide range of resolutions. boundaries of survey fields and aperture plates, outlines of individual objects and data quality masks, and locations of photometric and spectroscopic objects. *Note: The Finding Chart, Navigate and Image Lists tools build mosaics on the fly by overlapping SDSS fields that may or may not belong to different runs.

Earth Time Lapse Video from ISS is Amazing! This time lapse video, taken by the International Space Station, is filled with lightning storms, the Northern Lights, tropical currents and pure awesomeness. The video is a series of sequence photographs taken with a low-light 4K-camera by the crew of Expedition 28 and 29. If you have commitment issues and do not want to watch a five minute video, there are some screen grabs below. But trust me, the lightning storms a lone are worth it. Here is what you are seeing, in order of appearance: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

Photographies Sphénoramiques TM Exoplanet Orbit Database | Exoplanet Data Explorer Paul Nylander’s Home Page Image Resources at the NSSDC General Image Services Specialized Image Services Planetary Data Visualization Visual and Technical Arts Laboratory Other NASA Data Archive/Service Centers Ames Research Center Neurolab Online Dryden Flight Research Center Dryden Aircraft Photo Collection Goddard Space Flight Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory Johnson Space Center JSC Digital Image Collection Glenn Research Center Expendable rockets and launches Marshall Space Flight Center Global Hydrology and Climate Center NASA Headquarters Great Images in NASA NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program NASA Image Exchange Planetary Data System Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach Other Resources Department of Defense Naval Research Laboratory: Clementine images Department of Interior United States Geological Service: Clementine images European Southern Observatory ESO Photo Gallery National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Geophysical Data Center Geologic Hazards National Science Foundation Smithsonian Institution Other

DaylightMap DaylightMap shows the pattern of night and day on a Google map, for any area of the Earth, for any date and time. The night-side satellite view includes city lights as seen from orbit. It also allows you to select up to ten locations on the map; in addition to seeing at a glance whether it's daytime there, you can show their local time, sunrise and and sunset times, and length of day. This particular DaylightMap is highlighting times for . More Information Mobile phones running the Android operating system - the Droid, Galaxy, Nexus, Xperia, and more - can now have DaylightMap on board. There's also a near-real-time view of global cloud cover available, updated every hour from weather satellite imagery. In addition, I've packaged the DaylightMap + Clouds functionality as an iGoogle Theme , meaning you can now wrap your whole Google home page in a DaylightMap. Or, in the best mashup tradition, you can put DaylightMap and Clouds on your own website if you'd like.

Galaxy Zoo: Hubble ymarkov: The Last Ring-bearer UPDATE: Second edition! More than 15 years ago Russian scientist Kirill Yeskov tried to settle certain geographical problems in Tolkien's fantasy world. One thing led to another, and he tackled a bigger project - what if we assumed that it's no less real than our world? His conclusion was that in such a case, the story of the Ring of Power is most likely a much-altered heroic retelling of a major war - but what was that war really about? The result of this re-appraisal was the publication in 1999 of The Last Ring-bearer - a re-thinking of Tolkien's story in real-world terms. I was impressed enough by this work to spend a few dozen lunch hours translating it to English. UPDATE: I have translated an essay Dr. One user has reported a virus intercepted during downloading. I have to disappoint the fans of Sauron: His Majesty Sauron the VIII rates only a few mentions in this work, having been nothing more than an enlightened king. ErrataPage 5: read "consciousness" for "conscious."