Anti-hvost komety PanSTARRS
18.05.2013 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Ran'she znamenituyu kometu PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) mozhno bylo uvidet' tol'ko na zakate. No seichas, po mere svoego puteshestviya k vneshnim chastyam Solnechnoi sistemy, iz severnogo polushariya ona vidna pochti vsyu noch', ved' orbita komety podnimaetsya vysoko nad ploskost'yu ekliptiki. Odnako ee shirokii pylevoi hvost vse eshe svetitsya, hot' on i potusknel.

Vodopad i nochnoi mir
17.05.2013 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Ogromnaya arka Mlechnogo Puti i perelivayushiesya potoki severnogo siyaniya tekut v nochnom nebe nad etim severnym peizazhem. Vnizu, slovno eho, takzhe techet zhivopisnyi islandskii Vodopad Bogov Godafoss. Na panorame, sfotografirovannoi 9 marta, pryamo pod arkoi Mlechnogo Puti viden yarkii Yupiter. Slabaya tumannaya galaktika Andromedy (M31) budto by tonet v potokah polyarnogo siyaniya.

Astronomicheskaya nedelya s 20 po 26 maya 2013 goda
17.05.2013 15:52 | Aleksandr Kozlovskii

Na dannoi nedele (ves'ma nasyshennoi yavleniyami) kometa PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4) nablyudaetsya v binokl' v sozvezdiyah Cefeya i Drakona (bliz Polyarnoi zvezdy), a kometa C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) peremeshaetsya po sozvezdiyu Andromedy (bliz al'fa And s bleskom 2m), i dostupna dlya nablyudenii v binokl' na utrennem nebe.