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Image above Challapata taken by Sentinel 2 - 2022.08.06
Credit : Copernicus Sentinel data 2023
Processing : Thomas Thomopoulos
Wroclaw Copernicus Airport -
Port Lotniczy Wrocław im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Location: Strachowice, Wroclaw, Poland
Built: 2009-2012
Architects: JSK Architekci (Poland)
Total area: 40815 m2
Cubature: 328140 m3
Cost: 296 mln PLN
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Satellite: Sentinel-2. Sensor: MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument).
Visualization RGB: bands 4 (red), 3 (green), 2 (blue). True color.
La imagen tiene 53 km de ancho (aprox.)
Veranos secos, inviernos templados y poca abundancia de lluvias caracterizan el clima de Formentera. Además, las pequeñas dimensiones de Formentera, así como la escasa entidad de su relieve, hacen que las características climáticas varíen muy poco de un lugar a otro.
Formentera tiene una geografía peculiar y cautivadora, con una superficie de 83,2 km2 y un litoral de 69 km. La altura máxima es de 192 metros sobre el nivel del mar en Sa Talaïassa, punto situado en el altiplano de la Mola. (www.formentera.es/la-isla/clima-y-geografia/)
Esta imagen ha sido procesada con el navegador EO Browser (apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser) de Sentinel Hub. Sentinel Hub es un motor de procesamiento de datos satelitales, dentro del programa de observación de la Tierra Copernicus (copernicus.eu) de la Unión Europea, operado por la empresa Sinergise. EO Browser es gratuito y fácil de usar. El norte siempre está arriba.
This image has been processed using the EO Browser (apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser) by Sentinel Hub. Sentinel Hub is a satellite data processing engine, within the European Union's Earth observation programme Copernicus (copernicus.eu), operated by the Sinergise company. EO Browser is free and easy to use. North is always up.
Nicolaus Copernicus' "De revolutionibus" (1543) showing his diagram of the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Telescópio: celestron 130 slt(130mm/f5)
Câmera: canon A530 zoom 8x
Ocular ortoscópica 5mm
Método afocal
aproximadamente 1000 frames
processamento:Registax 5 photo studio
condições extremas poluição luminosa
São Paulo-Capital
13.02.2011 22:30 UT
THE JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY IS A BRITISH OBSERVATORY THAT HOSTS A NUMBER OF RADIO TELESCOPES, AND IS PART OF THE JODRELL BANK CENTRE FOR ASTROPHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. THE OBSERVATORY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1945 BY SIR BERNARD LOVELL, A RADIO ASTRONOMER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER WHO WANTED TO INVESTIGATE COSMIC RAYS AFTER HIS WORK ON RADAR DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. IT HAS SINCE PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE RESEARCH OF METEORS, QUASARS, PULSARS, MASERS AND GRAVITATIONAL LENSES, AND WAS HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH THE TRACKING OF SPACE PROBES AT THE START OF THE SPACE AGE.
THE MAIN TELESCOPE AT THE OBSERVATORY IS THE LOVELL TELESCOPE, WHICH IS THE THIRD LARGEST STEERABLE RADIO TELESCOPE IN THE WORLD. THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER'S GIANT 76-METRE (250-FT) LOVELL RADIO TELESCOPE IS PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS WORKING SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT IN THE UK AND IS WIDELY REGARDED BY THE PUBLIC AS AN ICON OF THE VERY BEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF BRITISH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. THERE ARE THREE OTHER ACTIVE TELESCOPES LOCATED AT THE OBSERVATORY; THE MARK II, AS WELL AS 42 FT (13 M) AND 7 M DIAMETER RADIO TELESCOPES. JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY IS ALSO THE BASE OF THE MULTI-ELEMENT RADIO LINKED INTERFEROMETER NETWORK CALLED MERLIN (MULTI ELEMENT RADIO LINKED INTERFEROMETER NETWORK), A NATIONAL FACILITY RUN BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER ON BEHALF OF THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL.
It's one day past third quarter, and most of the vast western crater fields are safely tucked away for their long night. Now the eastern maria dominate the view, with but a few more recent impacts to mar their seemingly smooth surface. The smoothness is an illusion, though, as shown by the features that become visible, sometimes within the last waning hours of their day. Ridges and rilles, hillocks and slumps, faults and mountains can now be seen if you look for them.
Some of the mountains can even be seen on the dark side of the terminator, their bases in night but their peaks still jutting up into the sharp boundary between light and dark. That boundary is sharp because the moon has no atmosphere to bend the light around the terminator. The beautiful sunset-lit clouds that we enjoy so often, after the sun has sunk below the horizon, are visible primarily because the atmosphere bends the sun's light downward so it will still strike those clouds and color them with the warm colors that the same atmosphere has allowed to pass.
There's no such thing on the moon. If you were to watch a sunset there, you'd see the blindingly brilliant sun touch the horizon. The some hours later, the last blinding bit of the sun's disk would abruptly blink out, leaving you standing in total darkness. Total, that is, unless there was terrain around you that was higher than your head, in which case you'd watch the horizon's shadow slowly creep up those slopes until the last tip of the highest hill blinked out.
After sunset there would be fourteen days of near-total darkness. The only light would be provided by starlight and whatever was reflected from the earth, which would be beautifully blue, hung in the vast, star-filled expanse of space. The stars would not twinkle, because it is the movement of the atmosphere that causes that, and there's no atmosphere there. The faintest stars visible would be more numerous than we could see here, because there's no air, with all its burden of light-attenuating particulates, to squelch their brilliance. Thus, the sky would seem much more dense with stars than we could see when we lived on Earth. The Milky Way would stretch across the expanse of the sky in a glory we'd never seen before.
We'd have but a few minutes to enjoy the spectacle, because the terrain would be quickly radiating away the last remaining heat it had accumulated during the fourteen earth-day long day. It would get very cold, very quickly, and if we didn't carry a source of heat with us, or get into our geothermally heated shelter, we'd freeze. We'd doubtless be very thankful that someone had solved the problem of how to survive the long lunar nights!
Sunrise would begin just as abruptly. The first little bit of the sun would peek over the opposite horizon, abruptly ending the night as if someone had just turned on a billion billion watt lightbulbs somewhere on the horizon. Night ends, and the fourteen day long lunar day begins. At its peak, the surface is heated to hundreds of degrees, because there's no air, no clouds, no water, nothing to turn away the fury of the sun's radiation.
Such is the nature of living on the moon. The challenges are immense. It's not like we can just build a house, put a furnace and air conditioner in it, and that's all there is to it. Oh no. We will eventually live there, but it's a terribly harsh and completely unforgiving environment. Mistakes will be made, and people will die for them. But explore, we must, and those are the costs.
Official graduation ceremony of Copernicus Master in Digital Earth students at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg in the famous 'Bibliotheksaula'. This final event marks a successful journey of outstanding students from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme with the University of South Brittany in France and Palacky University Olomouc in Czech Republic.
Photos: Simon P. Haigermoser
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on the evening of 22nd March 2021 during a 62% Waxing Gibbous Moon. Image was taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. The set up was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier. I had set up to capture the ISS lunar transit that was visible at 20:08 GMT, and between 18:48 - 18:59 I captured a load more videos.
2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap, then the best 50% were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
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I'm always blown away by how much detail this little telescope / camera combo can produce when you put a Barlow in the imaging train. There was a fair bit of thin cloud around during this imaging session so I've even more impressed by the images!
How-and-Why Wonder Book of Famous Scientists. Written by Jean Bethell, illustrated by Jo Kotula. Wonder Books, 1964.
Mid-century in every way--science will save us!
Jo Kotula (1910-98) was a very talented artist best known for his aviation related artwork, and a favorite of model airplane enthusiasts for his dramatic cover paintings that graced the covers of Model Airplane News. Shown above are illustrations for a series of ads for Vanadium Corp. of America. From: www.fanboy.com/2007/05/the-amazing-art-of-jo-kotula.html
Source: Griffith Observatory
Greeting visitors upon their arrival at Griffith Observatory, the fully restored Astronomers Monument is a large outdoor concrete sculpture on the front
lawn that pays homage to six of the greatest astronomers of all time:
Ίππαρχος ο Ρόδιος
Ο Ίππαρχος ο Ρόδιος ή Ίππαρχος ο Νικαεύς (περ.190 π.Χ. - 120 π.Χ.) ήταν Έλληνας αστρονόμος, γεωγράφος, χαρτογράφος και μαθηματικός, θεωρούμενος από αρκετούς και ακριβέστερα ως ο «πατέρας της Αστρονομίας». `Αλλοι τίτλοι που του έχουν αποδοθεί είναι του μεγαλύτερου αστρονομικού παρατηρητή «πρίγκιπα της παρατήρησης», «θεμελιωτή της τριγωνομετρίας» ως και του «μεγαλύτερου αστρονόμου της αρχαιότητας», αλλά και «όλων των εποχών». Η υπομονή του, η οξυδέρκειά του αλλά και το βεβαιούμενο ιστορικά πάθος του με ότι καταπιανόταν τον οδήγησαν σε δρόμους που σήμερα, αναλογικά με τα δεδομένα της εποχής του, σίγουρα εντυπωσιάζουν.
Hipparchus (about 150 B.C.)
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
William Herschel (1738-1822)
Nicholas Copernicus Monument is located in front of the building. The monument was created by S. Staszic and unveiled in 1830. The monument is 2.8 metres tall. Copernicus is the first astronomer that put the sun in the centre of our universe.
Copernicus Sentinel-1D has begun its journey and is preparing to leave Europe. It left Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes on Monday, 1 September, and arrived the next day in Turin. From there, it will be flown on an Antonov plane to French Guiana on 10 September.
Sentinel-1D, part of the European Commission’s Copernicus programme, is designed to carry an advanced radar instrument to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface.
It will be launched on an Ariane 6 in Q4 2025.
Credits: ESA - P. Sebirot
Copernicus, Eratosthenes craters and Montes Apenninus photographed with Celestron C9,25'' telescope and ZWO ASI 178 MC camera. Processing: AutoStakkert!, Photoshop
Commedia dell'arte Day: Trupa Komedianty with the spectacle 'The Townsman a Nobleman' ('Mieszczanin szlachcicem') accompanied by the Collegium Copernicus orchestra. Kraków, Poland
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Telescopio: C90
Camara: ZWO ASI20MM
Montura: Celestron Nexstar
Frames: 1000
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert 2 + Fitsworks4 + Lr5
Fecha: 15 Febrero 2019
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaír
Poncitlán Jalisco México
Copernicus es un cráter de impacto de unos 30 km de diámetro situado en el este del Oceanus Procellarum, en las coordenadas 9.62°, -20.08° de la Luna.
La primera imagen se hizo a partir del modelo de elevaciones Moon LRO LOLA DEM 118 m. El sombreado analítico se ha hecho con WhiteBox Tools integrado en QGIS. La segunda imagen es un dibujo del mismo cráter publicado en la lámina 17 del "A popular Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy", editado en Nueva York en 1891 (Lunar Craters – Plate 17).
Before Copernicus the Greeks had the fore ground of knowledge that was apreciable. It started with the axioms of the day that developed into knowledge such as geometry. These were put in place as early as 525 B.C. There was a problem thogh, you are not able to find out all things through deduction. There is an example of measuring distance between two places. There is no means of deduction that will express this distance. The distance has to be measured. The knowledge that comes from measureing is inductive. Copernicus was the first to propose this as a productive idea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus
Gingerich, Owen. The book nobody read : chasing the revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus(New York : Walker & Company, 2004).
Copernicus was responsible for the rejection of the key axioms of astronomy. This led to a new way of thinking about information at least in the educated community.
In 1543 he rejected the key axiom of astronomy.
Captured over the Indian Ocean early on 12/03/2021 at 04:15 UTC by the Copernicus EU Sentinel-3 satellite.