Observational Post

The past couple of weeks have had literally NOTHING new. I have continued to go out after work and on my days off almost every night to try and see something new, but I just make the exact same observations. I guess that astronomy is about patience.... but it's difficult.

APOD 4.6

Todays APOD is from April 27th and is pretty cool

This is an image of the space suit that was sent into the orbit of the earth with a weak transmitter to signal it's location. This was sent out by the Russians as it was an unneeded Orlan suit that was being used as a closet with old clothes and trash. It orbited the planet twice but lost connection. After about an hour and a half, it fell out of orbit toward the earth and burned up in the atmosphere. Just a cool space story. BTW, these suits cost about 1.2 MILLION dollars each.

OWN Picture of the Week #6

OOOO the orion nebula edited by meeeeeee

APOD 4.5

YET ANOTHER APOD! Todays APOD is from April 21st and is simply beautiful

This is an image of a super massive galaxy that is actually pretty close to us called Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841. Located 46 million light years away in the Ursa Major constellation, this is one of the largest objects known to mankind. This monster has a diameter of over 150,000 light years and is also known as the island universe. Taken by the Hubble, we can clearly see beautiful colors and lights throughout this amazing photo.

OWN Picture of the Week #5

Here is the eagle galaxy that I have edited through the program provided. It is colored and enhanced

Margaret Burbidge Bio Links

Here are the sources that I will use to write my biography on Margaret Burbidge

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/brucemedalists/burbidgem/

http://www.nndb.com/people/692/000168188/

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/84933/Margaret-Burbidge

APOD 4.4

Today's APOD is taken from April 16th and is very very cool.

This is a photo of the lunar eclipse, Mars and Spica all in the same photo. I chose this photo because I actually got up in the morning to watch it and was astounded by how amazing it looked. The red color of the moon is due to the sun actually passing in front of it. The blue star just underneath is Spica which is also relevant as it is within the constellation Virgin which we are learning about this week. And, you guessed it, the red star isn't actually a star but mars itself being very close to Earth due to the rotations lining up just right. Just amazing.