Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya (APOD)

za dekabr' 2011 goda.

Solnechnoe zatmenie nad Antarktikoi
2.12.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

V proshluyu pyatnicu proizoshlo chetvertoe i poslednee v 2011 godu chastnoe solnechnoe zatmenie. Ego bylo vidno tol'ko na bol'shih shirotah v yuzhnom polusharii. Esli vy propustili zatmenie, to posmotrite na volnuyushuyu fotografiyu etogo geocentricheskogo nebesnogo yavleniya, sdelannuyu na ochen' vysokoi yuzhnoi shirote v Antarktide.

Molodaya Luna vstrechaet Vechernyuyu Zvezdu
1.12.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

V sumerkah na zapadnom nebe Zemli zagoraetsya Vechernyaya Zvezda — blistayushaya planeta Venera. Na etom prekrasnom nebesnom peizazhe, sfotografirovannom v proshluyu subbotu, k nebesnomu sumerechnomu mayaku, visyashemu nad izrezannym gorizontom na fone teplyh tonov zakata, prisoedinilas' molodaya Luna, kotoroi vsego lish' 35 chasov otrodu. Takoe blizkoe raspolozhenie Venery i Luny nazyvaetsya soedineniem.